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The following is a list of religious slurs or religious insults in the English language that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about adherents or non-believers of a given religion or irreligion, or to refer to them in a derogatory (critical or disrespectful), pejorative (disapproving or contemptuous), or insulting manner.
The Jewish English Lexicon dictionary defines the term as assuming Ashkenazi Jews as the default, excluding Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ethiopian, and other practices and histories from Jewish communal life. [5] It is often contrasted with Ashkefardic, representing both Ashkenazi and Sephardi cultures. [6]
The Latin words gentes/gentilis – which also referred to peoples or nations – began to be used to describe non-Jews in parallel with the evolution of the word goy in Hebrew. Based on the Latin model, the English word "gentile" came to mean non-Jew from the time of the first English-language Bible translations in the 1500s (see Gentile ).
Racial antisemitism differs from religious antisemitism, which involves prejudice against Jews and Judaism on the basis of their religion. [2] According to William Nichols, one can distinguish historical religious antisemitism from "the new secular antisemitism " based on racial or ethnic grounds: "The dividing line was the possibility of ...
The English word gentile derives from the Latin word gentilis, meaning "of or belonging to the same people or nation" (from Latin gēns ' clan, tribe, people, family '). Archaic and specialist uses of the word gentile in English (particularly in linguistics) still carry this meaning of "relating to a people or nation."
Whereas religious civil liberties, such as the right to hold or not to hold a religious belief, are essential for Freedom of Religion (in the United States secured by the First Amendment), religious discrimination occurs when someone is denied "the equal protection of the laws, equality of status under the law, equal treatment in the ...
Religious antisemitism is the aversion to or discrimination against Jews as a whole based on religious doctrines of supersession, which expect or demand the disappearance of Judaism and the conversion of Jews to other faiths. [1]
A Jewish propaganda machine had promoted the Holocaust myth to extract huge sums of money from Germany and justify the founding of the state of Israel; The Jewish victims died of natural causes or were sentenced to death for criminal reasons; The Allied Powers deliberately inflated the number of Jews killed during the war