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The Catholic Church, he continued, "decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone."

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Anti-Semitism has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating in the Nazi Holocaust.

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The term "anti-semitism" derives from the name of Noah's son Shem and his ancestors who are known as Shemites or Semites.

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The advent of racial anti-Semitism was linked to the growing sense of nationalism in many countries.

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The anti-Semitism of the Greeks though increasingly changed Roman attitudes and policies.

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Before the nineteenth century, most anti-Semitism was religiously motivated.

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Professor Cohn-Sherbok said, "the Seleucids served as a model for future forms of anti-Semitism.

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Religious anti-Semitism (sometimes called anti-Judaism) usually did not affect those of Jewish ancestry who had converted to another religion—the Spanish Inquisition being the notable exception.

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Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution.

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According to British historian Paul Johnson, Luther's pamphlet "may be termed the first work of modern anti-Semitism, and a giant step forward on the road to the Holocaust.

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Anti-Semitism in many Muslim countries today repeats all the libels and accusations that were made in Christian Europe.

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A virulent anti-Semitism was a central part of Hitler's ideology from the beginning, and hatred of Jews provided both a distraction from other problems and fuel for a totalitarian engine that powered Nazi Germany.

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In an interview with BBC's Radio Four, Sacks said that anti-Semitism was on the rise in Europe.

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Nevertheless, anti-Semitism continued to grow in the Empire especially under Hadrian.

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Anti-Semitism was officially adopted by the German Conservative Party at the Tivoli Congress in 1892.

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So this improvement in the status of Jews which enabled them to mix freely in society paradoxically led to modern anti-Semitism: quasi-scientific theories about the racial inferiority of the Jews.

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Britain's chief rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, has warned that what he called a "tsunami of anti-Semitism" is spreading globally.

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Symptomatic of racial anti-Semitism was the Dreyfus affair, a major political scandal which divided France for many years during the late nineteenth century.

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The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until today has been racial anti-Semitism.

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The venomous anti-Semitism exposed by the affair led Theodor Herzl to conclude that the only solution was for Jews to have their own country.

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Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth centuries, the Catholic Church still incorporated strong anti-Semitic elements, despite increasing attempts to separate anti-Judaism—the opposition to the Jewish religion on religious grounds—and racial anti-Semitism.

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