. Anti-Semitism or, more properly for the Middle Ages, anti-Judaism, was the set of attitudes toward Jews that derived from regarding their religion as inferior to Christianity and themselves as the heirs of deicides. By their persistence in adhering...

Anti-Semitism, in political terms the discrimination against or persecution of Jews, is nowadays associated in most people’s minds with Hitler’s Germany. In fact it has a very much longer history, has had some political importance in most...

Historical Christian doctrine of Jew-hatred and of contempt for Judaism, the religion. In common usage, the term also encompasses the racist anti-Semitism of the German Nazis and of some Islamic extremists, from which phenomena it rightly should be...

Hostility against the *Jews. Although the term ‘anti-Semitism’ is of 19th Century origin, dislike and persecution of the Jewish people goes back to ancient times. The New Testament has a strong anti-Semitic bias and, as the humanist Erasmus...

Jews may feel victimized in America, but it is not because of anti-Semitism. Jews have lost their sense of collective responsibility and have allowed their spiritual community to become fragmented. They should accept their religious and cultural responsibilities instead of blaming others for assaults...

A YEAR AGO, Harvard President Lawrence Summers caused a stir with a speech in which he charged that anti-Semitism was making a comeback under the guise of criticizing Israel's conduct toward the Palestinians. Some applauded Summers's message, while others accused him of equating criticism...

An anti-Semitic church formed by white supremacists has abandoned its neo-Nazi imagery, such as swastikas, to make its message more palatable, a change that a leading Jewish group called an attempt to "sanitize hatred."The group banned the use of Nazi uniforms, red arm bands and...

Former NBA player Micheal Ray Richardson was suspended by the Continental Basketball Association on Wednesday for anti-Semitic comments the Albany Patroons' coach made in a newspaper interview.Richardson will miss the rest of the CBA's best-of-five championship series after he told the Albany Times Union that...

In Jewish theology, God deemed the Jews his “chosen people.” Ironically, in their four-thousand-year history, Jews have frequently been chosen as a target for persecution by the societies in which they reside. Jews and the teachings of...