anti-Judaism

See also: antijudaism

English

Alternative forms

• antijudaism (uncommon)

Etymology

From anti- +‎ Judaism.

Noun

anti-Judaism (uncountable)

1. Opposition to Judaism.
   • 1836, David Meredith Reese, “Thoughts on the present aspect of the Roman Catholic Controversy”, in Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon, editors, Literary and Theological Review‎^[1], volume 3, New York: Ezra Collier, page 648:

     And yet they did not form Anti-Judaism, or Anti-Gentileism, nor yet anti-sin societies, but acted upon the principle that truth was omnipotent against errour, and therefore “preached Jesus and the resurrection.” as the all-sufficient moral engine for the conversion of the world.

   • 2023 January 10, David M. Freidenreich, Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy‎^[2], Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 4:

     Anti-Judaism, as defined here, differs in several crucial respects from its more familiar cousin, antisemitism. Most fundamentally, the discourse of antisemitism asserts that Jews are inherently different from non-Jews in negative ways, while the discourse of anti-Judaism urges audiences to differentiate themselves from Jews precisely because it recognizes that the characteristics of Jews and non-Jews are often not so different after all. The simple current definition states that “Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility, or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish intuitions as Jewish).”⁴ Anti-Judaism, in contrast, seeks to motivate self-improvement through the cultivation of beliefs and practices opposed to those that the polemicist brands as Jewish. Antisemitic rhetoric specifically targets Jews; anti-Jewish rhetoric instead targets all who bear purportedly Jewish characteristics, especially non-Jews. Although antisemitism and anti-Judaism both seek to minimize the influence of Jewishness within society, antisemitism condemns what Jews are while anti-Judaism condemns what certain people do or think.

2. Synonym of anti-Semitism