The term antisemitism was coined by self-declared Jew haters in 1879 Berlin

Evidence

The problem, however, is that the word ‘antisemitism’ does not belong to pre-modernity. It was, instead, the product of a very distinct context of political, cultural and economic strife in central Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. In an intellectual culture shaped by racial nationalist thought, and driven by a desire for racial purity as political panacea, self-declared Jew haters deployed the word as the name for their political movement: the Antisemiten-Liga of Berlin, founded in 1879. This is the deeply problematic origin of Hollande’s name for the anti-Jewish enemy. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 73

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the precise etymology and political origin of the term antisemitism.
• XREF: Connects to my earlier reading on how moral-panic and hatred terms carry their own political birthmarks; also relevant to Hollande’s rhetorical naming of enemies.
• SEED: An article angle: the political origins of our words for hatred — how ‘antisemitism’ and ‘islamophobia’ were each coined in specific ideological moments, and what that means for how we use them today.
• CANDY: A light fact: the word ‘antisemitism’ was invented by a self-declared Jew-hating political league founded in Berlin in 1879.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 73