معاداة السامية Antisemitism مفهوم ثقافي غربي يتعلق باضطهاد الجماعات اليهودية في أوربا لكونها يهودية. يرتكز المصطلح على علم القرنين الثامن عشر والتاسع عشر، وعلى الأفكار العنصرية فيما يتعلق بنقاء الأعراق، كما يعكس الاسم قبولا للتفسير التوراتي للتنوع البشري (الساميون أولاد سام بن نوح، بينما الأوربيون أولاد يافث بن نوح.
A March 2008 report by the U.S. State Department found that there was an increase in antisemitism across the world, and that both old and new expressions of antisemitism persist.[1] A 2012 report by the U.S. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor also noted a continued global increase in antisemitism, and found that Holocaust denial and opposition to Israeli policy at times was used to promote or justify blatant antisemitism.[2] In 2014, the Anti-Defamation League conducted a study titled ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism,[3] which also reported high antisemitism figures around the world and, among other findings, that as many as "27% of people who have never met a Jew nevertheless harbor strong prejudices against him".[4]
In August 2024, the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs announced a new antisemitism monitoring project.[5][6] The goal of the project is to measure levels of antisemitism in various countries, as well as identify instigators and trends.[5] In the event that antisemitism in a given country becomes severe, the Diaspora Minister may contact that country's government in an official capacity.[5]
There have been attempts to collect material deemed antisemitic, such as the Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism, an electronic version of the Antisemitism – An Annotated Bibliography published by De Gruyter Saur from 1984 to 2013 and which lists some 50,000 items including books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines as well items from visuals arts such as films and caricatures. Apart from antisemitic material, including those pertaining to "Jewish self-hate", the project also contains Jewish responses to such polemical works and also philosemitic works.[7]
