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[[Image:Aldershot Cemetery.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Anti-Semitic graffiti on Jewish graves, Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England, November, 2004. (c. Community Security Trust/Fox News)]]
[[Image:Aldershot Cemetery.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Antisemitic graffiti on Jewish graves, Aldershot Military Cemetery, Hampshire, England, November, 2004. (c. Community Security Trust/Fox News)]]
'''Antisemitism''' is [[discrimination]], prejudice, and [[Hate|hatred]] against [[Jews]] and [[Jewish]] culture. As a word, it is first recorded in the English language in 1882,<ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisemitism</ref> but as an idea and argument of hatred examples exist from much earlier times, particularly stemming from the fact that Jews were God's first chosen people. It was Wilhelm Marr (1819–1904), an anti-Jewish German agitator, who coined the term ''"antisemitism"'' in 1879.<ref>Epstein, Varda Meyers (May 27, 2019). [https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/antisemitism-spell-it-without-the-hyphen-please/2019/05/27/ Antisemitism: Spell it Without the Hyphen-Please]. ''The Jewish Press''. Retrieved December 13, 2022.</ref> And, since then, the term always referred to anti-Jewish bigotry.
'''Antisemitism''' is [[discrimination]], prejudice, and [[Hate|hatred]] against [[Jews]] and [[Jewish]] culture. As a word, it is first recorded in the English language in 1882,<ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antisemitism</ref> but as an idea and argument of hatred examples exist from much earlier times, particularly stemming from the fact that Jews were God's first chosen people. It was Wilhelm Marr (1819–1904), an anti-Jewish German agitator, who coined the term ''"antisemitism"'' in 1879.<ref>Epstein, Varda Meyers (May 27, 2019). [https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/antisemitism-spell-it-without-the-hyphen-please/2019/05/27/ Antisemitism: Spell it Without the Hyphen-Please]. ''The Jewish Press''. Retrieved December 13, 2022.</ref> And, since then, the term always referred to anti-Jewish bigotry.