{{discrimination2}} Antisemitism is discrimination, hostility or prejudice directed at Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group. Antisemitism has been called "the longest hatred." Its instances range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. Extreme instances of persecution include the Spanish Inquisition, eviction from Spain, various pogroms, and the most infamous, Adolf Hitler's Holocaust. Different forms of antisemitism may be distinguished: * Religious antisemitism is also known as anti-Judaism. As the name implies, it was the practice of Judaism itself that was the defining characteristic of the antisemitic attacks. Under this version of antisemitism, attacks would often stop if Jews stopped practising or changed their public faith, especially by conversion to the "official" or "right" religion, and sometimes, liturgal exclusion of Jewish converts . * Racial antisemitism is the concept that the Jews are a distinct and inferior race. In the late 19th More »