Antisemitism
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Antisemitism, or Jew-hatred, is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism d
1879 statute of the Antisemitic League
Cover page of Marr's The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1880 edition
A caricature by Charles Lucien Léandre (France, 1898) showing Rothschild with the world in his hands
1889 Paris, France elections poster for self-described "candidat antisémite" Adolphe Willette: "The Jews are a different race, hostile to our own... Judaism, there is the enemy!" (See file for complete translation.)
Anti-Zionism
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Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sove
Antisemitism
…is a variation of antisemitism known as "new antisemitism" has been discussed. According to this view, since Israel is a Jewish state, expressions of anti-Zionist positions could harbour antisemitic sentiments, and criticism of Israel can serve as a vehicle for attacks against Jews in general…
Dutch Jewish lawyer, journalist, and poet Jacob Israël de Haan became active against Zionism after having migrated to Palestine. In 1924, Haganah member Avraham Tehomi assassinated de Haan in Jerusalem on the orders of leader Yitzhak Ben-Zvi before de Haan was due to go to London to advocate against Zionism.
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II firmly maintained his anti-Zionist position to secure Palestine until the Young Turk revolution
Arab mayor of Jerusalem Yousef al-Khalidi who in 1899 wrote a letter to Theodor Herzl arguing against Zionism, saying "in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone."
The August 1917 memorandum by Edwin Montagu, the only Jew then in a senior British government position, stating his opposition to the pro-Zionist Balfour Declaration, which he described as "antisemitic in result"