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'''Antisemitism''' (also spelled '''Anti-Semitism''' or '''anti-semitism''') or '''Judeophobia'''<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pinsker|first1=Leon|title=Auto-emancipation|date=1906|publisher=Maccabaean|pages=16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CpYpAAAAYAAJ}}, Which is widely cited: [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=pinsker+judeophobia]</ref> is prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against [[Jews]] as a national, ethnic, [[Judaism|religious]], or racial group.<ref name="MWdef">[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisemitism anti-Semitism – Definition and More from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary]. Retrieved 2 June 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Brief History of Anti-Semitism|url=http://www.adl.org/assets/pdf/education-outreach/Brief-History-on-Anti-Semitism-A.pdf|publisher=Anti-defamation League|accessdate=16 August 2014}}</ref> A person who holds such positions is called an "antisemite". Antisemitism is widely considered to be a form of [[racism]].<ref>{{UN doc|docid=A-RES-53-133 |body=A |session=53 |type=R |resolution_number=133 |title=Measures to combat contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance |page=4 |date=1 March 1999 |accessdate=21 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.ecaj.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2014_antisemitism_report.pdf|title = 2014 Report on Antisemitism in Australia|date = 9 November 2014|accessdate = 21 April 2015|publisher = [[Executive Council of Australian Jewry]]|last = Nathan|first = Julie|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150412202844/http://www.ecaj.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2014_antisemitism_report.pdf|dead-url = no|archivedate = 12 April 2015}}</ref>
While the conjunction of the [[Morpheme|unit]]s [[:wikt:anti|anti]], [[:wikt:Semite|Semite]] and [[:wikt:ism|ism]] indicates antisemitism as being directed against all [[Semitic people]], the term was popularized in Germany in 1873 as a scientific-sounding term for ''Judenhass'' ("Jew-hatred"),<ref>{{harvp|Chanes|2004|p=150}}</ref><ref>
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