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anti semitism
antisemitism terms and people
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03/01/2006

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Prejudice
Definition
the process of "pre-judging" something
refers to existing biases toward the members of such groups, often based on social stereotypes
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Persecution
Definition
persistent mistreatment of an individual or group by another group
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religious persecution
Definition
most often a variant of persecution, motivated by non-religious factors such as simple greed
Many religious leaders accumulate wealth and many "religious" persecutions stem from attempts by members of other faiths to redistribute that wealth to themselves.
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Ethnic persecution
Definition
parallel to racism
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Ethnocentricity
Definition
the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture
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Apartheid
Definition
"separateness" or "apart-ness"
Under apartheid, the races were separated and black people were denied voting rights within so-called 'white' South Africa.
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Nazism
Definition
the ideology held by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which was led by its Führer (leader), Adolf Hitler.
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anti-Judaism
Definition
opposition to the Jewish religion (Judaism) and those who practice it[image]
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expulsions
Definition
a euphemism for ethnic cleansing of territory that had been settled by Germans after World War II.
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ethnic cleansing
Definition
refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of one ethnic group.
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forced emigration
Definition
the expelling of someone from a country
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genocide
Definition
ny of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
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anti-Zionism
Definition
a term used to describe several different political and religious points of view.
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Moritz Steinschneider
Definition
first used the term antisemitism in 1860. Steinschneider used this phrase to characterize Ernest Renan's ideas about how "Semitic races" were inferior to "Aryan races."
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Wilhelm Marr
Definition
coined the related German word Antisemitismus in his book "The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism" in 1879.
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The Justinian Code
Definition
tripped Jews of many of their rights, and Church councils throughout the sixth and seventh century, including the Council of Orleans, further enforced anti-Jewish provisions.
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blood libel
Definition
the supposed drinking of blood of Christian children, which Jews were accused of
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Martin Luther
Definition
wrote antagonistically about Jews in his book On the Jews and their Lies, which describes the Jews in extremely harsh terms, excoriating them, and providing detailed recommendation for a pogrom against them and their permanent oppression and/or expulsion
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scapegoating
Definition
features of modernity felt by some group to be undesirable (e.g. materialism, the power of money, economic fluctuations, war, secularism, socialism, Communism, movements for racial equality, social welfare policies, etc.) are believed to be caused by the machinations of a conspiratorial people whose full loyalties are not to the national group.
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Pogroms
Definition
a form of race riots, most commonly Russia and Eastern Europe, aimed specifically at Jews and often government sponsored.
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Holocaust deniers
Definition
often claim that "the Jews" or "Zionist conspiracy" are responsible for the exaggeration or wholesale fabrication of the events of the Holocaust.
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Hate speech
Definition
which referred to Jewish citizens as "dirty Jews" became common in anti-Semitic pamphlets and newspapers such as the Völkischer Beobachter and Der Stürmer.
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