Judaism is a religion engaged in by different peoples. Semitism is an ethnicity. So people categorized as Anti-Semitic on the basis of their hate for Jews are probably safer described as religious bigots.
Not racist. Legislating alleged anti Jew hate ' racism ' make the law look like an Ass. Or a bigger Ass in most jurisdictions.
As for those secularists that join Five Minute Hate sessions against Jews, they may be classed as temporary religious bigots since hate-filled bigotry directed toward Jews is a Xtian invention*
and practiced by them for over 1000 years. Its still a little messy - but the present situation is semantically unsustainable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_of_Sardis
BTW - since the present Pope is Augustinian
EVERY major call to crusade gave rise to pogroms against Jews. According to Augustine …
" ...Judaism, since Christ, is a corruption; indeed, Judas is the image of the Jewish people: their understanding of Scripture is carnal; they bear the guilt for the death of the Savior, for through their fathers they have killed Christ...”
The Crusades by Jonathan Smith
". .. they had also turned to scholars for justification of Christian violence and Gregory Vll had found in Anselm of Lucca, a partisan who, through a careful reading of the Fathers, above all Augustine of Hippo, would build a convincing case for Christian violence as something that could be commanded by God, was at the command of the Church and would, when properly used, be an expression of Christian love... "
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