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What are the forms of European anti-Semitism?

Anti-Semitism is prejudice or hatred against Jews. Those feelings are tied to a number of different issues and express themselves in different ways. Unfortunately, these views still exist in places around the world.

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Identitarian Anti-Semitism

This entry describes identitarian anti-Semitism, which holds that Jews do not fit within mainstream European culture. It documents the antisemitic trope casting Jews as alien or 'uncivilised'—a prejudice rejected as baseless and bigoted.

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Anti-Zionist anti-Semitism

This position describes anti-Zionist antisemitism as one form of European antisemitism: the conflation of criticism of the state of Israel with hostility toward Jews as a whole. It examines how legitimate political criticism of Israel can, in some forms, shade into hatred of Jewish people.

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Anti-Capitalist anti-Semitism

This position describes anti-capitalist antisemitism as one form of European antisemitism: the trope that casts Jews as the representatives or embodiment of globalised capital, blamed for the ills of a capitalist society. The entry documents it as a recurring antisemitic pattern.

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Anti-bourgeois anti-Semitism

This entry describes anti-bourgeois anti-Semitism, which scapegoats Jews as embodiments of the ills of industrialisation and modernity. It documents tropes casting Jews as 'too clever' or as unethical in business—baseless prejudices used to vilify a whole people.

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Conspiracist anti-Semitism

This entry describes conspiracist anti-Semitism, which falsely attributes to Jews extraordinary, hidden power over world events. It documents baseless tropes such as the claim that Jews control the media—conspiracy theories rejected as bigoted and unfounded.

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Religious anti-Semitism

This entry describes religious anti-Semitism, or anti-Judaism, which casts Jews in a special negative role within a divine plan. It documents tropes such as the false 'Christ-killer' charge blaming Jews for the death of Jesus—a prejudice long rejected by churches.

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Jews as Traitors

This position describes the 'Jews as traitors' form of European antisemitism: the trope that casts Jews as a disloyal fifth column working to undermine society from within. It encompasses the 'rootless cosmopolitan' slur and the centuries-old blood-libel myth.

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Anti-Leftist anti-semitism

This entry describes anti-leftist anti-Semitism, which falsely blames Jews for fomenting socialism to tear down Western society. It documents baseless tropes casting socialism as a 'Jewish conspiracy' and 'Jewish' leftism as a threat to traditional values—conspiracy theories rejected as bigoted.