In 1879 and 1880, Heinrich von Treitschke, an influential German nationalist historian, published a series of articles that drew attention to a fateful phrase: "Die Juden sind unser Unglück" ("The Jews are our misfortune"). Eventually, that slogan would be written on banners at Nazi Party rallies. Just before Treitschke's essay appeared, another German writer, anti-Jewish journalist Wilhelm Marr, coined the term antisemitism. But what that term denotes--discrimination and hatred against Jews--is arguably the world's longest hatred.
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