Antisemitism is a modern term that describes prejudice and hostility to Jews and Judaism. The term is derived from the later social scientific categorization of the subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic. It is also a descriptor of the peoples of these regions, from the list of nations descended from Noah's eldest son Shem, in Genesis 10. The most common use of antisemitism, however, relates to Jews and Judaism.
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