Re: Unfair to Jews, but don't get bent out of shape about it (#31845)
by Marc "Adam Moshe" Bacharach on March 13, 2004 at 3:20 PM

Wilhelm Marr is credited with coining the German word "Antisemitismus" in 1873, at a time when racial science was fashionable in Germany. So far as can be ascertained, the word was first printed in 1880. In that year Marr published "Zwanglose Antisemitische Hefte," and Wilhelm Scherer used the term "Antisemiten" in the "Neue Freie Presse" of January. The word was coined to give a more scientific term to mean the dislike of Jews.

I don't know what dictionary you use, but mine defines anti-Semitism as the following:
"Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism;
Discrimination against Jews."

Furthermore, the consensus, as illustrated through polling language, world leaders, and lay-people alike, say that the term means anti-Jewish. Have you honestly ever heard it used in any other way to mean any other thing?