Some people believe that antisemitism is the same as “anti-Judaism,” and others consider them distinct from one another. Antisemitism is hatred or prejudice against Jews, while Anti-Judaism is hostility towards Judaism. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. The term “antisemitism” was created by a German journalist who wanted to differentiate his scientific animosity of Jews with religious forms of anti-Judaism (Bergen 4). Antisemitism is written without a hyphen because writing it with a hyphen insinuates that “Semitism” existed, but people never planned it to imply anything but hatred of the Jews. Anti-Judaism and antisemitism are alike in the way that they both look down upon some aspect of a Jew’s life whether it is the
