Antisemitism facts for kids
Antisemitism is the hatred of or prejudice against Jews. Antisemitism has a long history, but the most well known act of anti-semitism is the Holocaust, also known as the Final Solution, a genocide which happened between 1933 and 1945. The plan was to totally get rid of the Jewish people in Europe, and up to 60-75% of them were killed. Around six million European Jews were killed because of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. He said that Jews were a racial group with naturally bad features.
Antisemitism is still common today.
Anti-Semitism in the Bible
The New Testament has anti-Semitic contents.
For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way they always heap up their sins to the limit. The wrath of God has come upon them at last.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-16
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Images for kids
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1879 statute of the Antisemitic League
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Cover page of Marr's The Way to Victory of Germanicism over Judaism, 1880 edition
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Caricature by C. Léandre (France, 1898) showing Rothschild with the world in his hands
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1889 Paris, France elections poster for self-described "candidat antisémite" Adolphe Willette: "The Jews are a different race, hostile to our own... Judaism, there is the enemy!" (see file for complete translation)
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Jews (identified by the mandatory Jewish badge and Jewish hat) being burned.
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Etching of the expulsion of the Jews from Frankfurt in 1614
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Title page of the second edition of Das Judenthum in der Musik, published in 1869
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Antisemitic agitators in Paris burn an effigy of Mathieu Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair
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Public reading of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Worms, Germany, 1935
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Graffiti of a swastika on a building in the Palestinian city Nablus, 2022
See also
In Spanish: Antisemitismo para niños
