Since we're debating labels, stop calling it anti-Semitism. It's Jew hatred.

On The word “Antisemitismus” enters German politics

Stephen D. Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation writes that Marr coined the term in 1879 to make an old hostility to Jews sound modern.

The German journalist Wilhelm Marr coined the term 'anti-Semitism' in 1879 to give an air of modernity to long-embraced animosity toward the Jewish people.

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On A call to say “Jew hatred” instead

Smith writes that the hyphenated spelling suggests that a “Semite” exists.

The hyphenated spelling gives off the impression that the entity 'Semite' in fact exists, which it doesn't.

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