The Definition Of Antisemitism: We Dare Not Let It Be Changed Or Stolen

Antisemitism is an important term with an important meaning. This cannot be stressed and highlighted enough. Antisemitism means Jew-hatred. Plain and simple. It means hostility, persecution, and hatred directed at the Jewish people.

To repeat, and to be clear, the term Antisemitism means Jew-hatred only. It does not mean hatred of Semitic people. When people attempt to manipulate the term to include all Semitic people, it is a form of nefarious Antisemitism in and of itself!

Antisemitism is a term that was coined by Wilhelm Marr in the 19th century. Marr was a German writer and himself a vile Antisemite. One need only look to some of his essays wherein he wrote about the needed success of Germandom over Judaism to see this. His works and his hatred of the Jews were revered during WWII, during the Holocaust, posthumously. Need we say more? In sum, Wilhelm Marr coined the term Antisemitism to mean Jew-hatred. 

Although we currently live in a society where leftist thought attempts to change term meanings on a day-to-day, second-to-second basis, this word – Antisemitism – has a definition, an important definition, and we cannot, we dare not,  let it be changed or stolen.  

It is unspeakably dangerous to us, as Jews when our enemies control the language surrounding our own Jewish persecution. For centuries, enemies have used language to harm the Jewish people and the Jewish cause.

An obvious example is the moment in history, April 24, 1950, when the occupying, colonizing, conquering Jordanians stole Judea/Samaria from the Jews and then renamed the land the “West Bank”. The Jordanians knew the efficacy of using language to harm the Jewish connection to the land. Take the “Judea” away, and remove the connection to “Jew” – simple and effective.

If we look at universities, colleges, and news media nowadays, people generally do not recognize the ancient connection of the Jews to Judea because of this name change. Regardless of the fact that Jews are, and always have been, indigenous to Judea, people generally do not acknowledge this nowadays. Yes, language is incredibly powerful and can be fatally dangerous.