allosemitism

English

Etymology

allo- +‎ Semite +‎ -ism

Noun

allosemitism

1. The belief or attitude that Jewish people are significantly different from the mainstream and should therefore be treated differently.
   • 1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', →ISBN, page 148:

     I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom. The Christian Church's struggle with the inassimilable, yet indispensable modality of the Jews bequeathed to later ages two factors crucial to the emergence and self-perpetuation of allosemitism.

   • 2006, Jewish Culture and History - Volume 8, Issues 1-3, page 15:

     While it may not be entirely accurate to call these phrases 'anti-Jewish tinged gibes', as the Jewish Telegraph reporter did, they are nonetheless characterised by allosemitism's construction of Jewish difference.

   • 2006, Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe - Issue 56, page 58:

     As a result of the latter prejudice, some integrationists developed an internal antisemitism or, perhaps, allosemitism, whereby an acculturated Jew looked at a traditional Jew and began to scorn him for being Other.

   • 2014, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Confronting Allosemitism in Europe: The Case of Belgian Jews, →ISBN:

     But what we have learned from Taguieff and many others about the new antisemitism, seems to temper Bauman's optimistic perspective: it is indeed rather difficult to state today that allosemitism has lost any validity.