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In her new role as antisemitism envoy, Deborah Lipstadt will attempt to fight a scourge of antisemitism that she seems to regard as incurable.

From the blog of Stephen Stern at The Times of Israel

It isn’t often that a hyphen, or the absence of one, draws attention. But when the Associated Press announced recently that it was changing the spelling of “anti-Semite” and “anti-Semitism” in its highly influential style guide to “antisemite” and “antisemitism,” it made news — and drew cheers from historians and civil rights activists. There is a good deal of history behind that detail of punctuation, and it begins with the fact that the father of “anti-Semitism” was an antisemite. In 1879, a German nationalist and political agitato...

Canceling ‘anti-Semitism’ By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist,Updated May 8, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France, on December 4, 2019.Jean-Francois BADIAS/Associated Press It isn’t often that a hyphen, or the absence of one, draws attention. But when The Associated Press announced recently that it was changing the spelling of “anti-Semite” and “anti-Semitism” in its highly influential style guide to “antisemite” and “antisemitism,” it made new...

At least, not in the AP world. This past week, the AP Stylebook made an official change — to no longer use the term “anti-Semitism” or “anti-Semitism,” and to change it to “antisemitism.” They have finally caught up with Microsoft Word, which long ago stopped red-lining “antisemitism.” No one could accused AP of being avant-garde in this matter. Deborah Lipstadt’s recent book on the phenomenon made that change: Antisemitism Here and Now. In May, 2020, in a speech at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, she said: “Why do I spell antisemitism without a hyphen? Because anti-Se...