(Jewish Group) Why I don't love 'Jew hate' as a substitute for 'antisemitism'

[Behind the Aegis]

I read a lot about antisemitism — as a professor researching prejudice, as a former fellow at a Holocaust memorial center, as a blogger for The Times of Israel, as the son of a Jewish father who was so grateful to get to live in the United States and as the father of a Jewish son in that same country, but with antisemitism on the rise.

I’ve noticed a shift in what I’m reading. The media, especially social media, are increasingly replacing the term “antisemitism” with a new term: “Jew hate.”

“Simply put, antisemitism is Jew hate,” Richard Lovett, co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency, the world’s leading entertainment and talent agency and a marketing and branding powerhouse, remarked last month in an address encouraging his industry to fight antisemitism. Also last month, the governor and attorney general of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston and other state leaders launched a campaign to “#StandUpToJewishHate,” an effort bankrolled by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Brooke Goldstein, the founder of the pro-Israel Lawfare Project and author of the book “End Jew Hatred,” has started an organization with the same name. The nonprofit JewBelong launched the #EndJewHate billboard campaign in 2021 in cities around the country.

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[msongs]

1. one supsects many ppl hear Jew hate and think things Jews hate, in terms of grammatics

"hatred of Jews" might be a more appropriate phrase relating to anti-semite nt

[The Magistrate]

2. As An Odd Point, Sir

The usage 'antisemitism' was popularized as a euphemism for 'Jew-hate', as a modern, 'scientific' expression of the old bigotries, which people who did not wish to seem backward found useful accordingly.

[JudyM]

3. I agree, but maybe it will change if it's adopted in the spirit intended.

[Mosby]

4. He makes some good points

Maybe the use should be limited to actual instances of Jew "hate". "Anti-Jewish bigotry" covers more ground, but is a mouthful, where Jew hate is succinct. I primarily use Antisemitism, but I occasionally use "Jew hate" because it's powerful and packs a punch like the author notes.

It's pretty f-ed up that people even have to have conversations like this.