Words, 2015 to today
Where the words in these arguments came from, who coined them and who argues over them.
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- From 1860Missing a language: The word in Arabic and Hebrew
How Arabic writing renders the word (معاداة السامية) and Hebrew (אנטישמיות), when each language took it up, and the argument made in Arabic that Arabs are Semites too. None of it is on the timeline yet.
- April 2015date uncertainIHRA asks for “antisemitism” without a hyphen
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial took up the spelling in April 2015 and recommended the unhyphenated form, arguing that a hyphen suggests there is such a thing as “Semitism”.
Use & spelling1 source1 independent root - 26 May 2016IHRA adopts its working definition
Meeting in Bucharest on 26 May 2016, the IHRA plenary adopted a non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism.
Definitions1 source1 independent root - 2016–2020Nothing recorded for 4 years. Add what happened
- July 2020date uncertainA call to say “Jew hatred” instead
Stephen D. Smith, executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, argued that the term should be retired and replaced with “Jew hatred”.
Use & spelling2 sources2 independent roots - 25 March 2021The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
A group of scholars launched the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism on 25 March 2021 as an alternative to the IHRA definition, which it calls unclear and open to different interpretations.
Definitions1 source1 independent root - April 2021date uncertainThe AP Stylebook drops the hyphen
The Associated Press changed its stylebook from “anti-Semitism” to “antisemitism”, with no hyphen and no capital S. Most of the news industry followed.
Use & spelling3 sources3 independent roots - 2021–2025Nothing recorded for 3 years. Add what happened
- 29 January 2025A US executive order spells it “Anti-Semitism”
President Trump signed Executive Order 14188, Additional Measures To Combat Anti-Semitism, on 29 January 2025. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported the hyphenated spelling as a break with the recent consensus.
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