Wikipedia: Anti-Semitism is one of the forms of national intolerance, which is expressed in a hostile attitude towards Jews as an ethnic group. It is one of the varieties of xenophobia. The term, introduced in 1880, denotes hostility towards Jews and not towards all peoples of the Semitic language group. Belief in the chosenness of the Jewish people before God. The most common opinion about the nature of hostility is associated with the Jewish religion and the isolation of Jews from other nations—be communal isolation of Jews living among others narrows caused hostility and rejection. The Jews were recognized as an outcast race, hostile to all of humanity. subscribe, repost, like