Definition of "allosemitism"

allosemitism

noun
1. The belief or attitude that Jewish people are significantly different from the mainstream and should therefore be treated differently.
  Quotations
  I suggest that the allosemitism endemic to western Civilization is to a decisive extent the legacy of Christendom. The Christian Church's struggle with the inassimilable, yet indispensable modality of the Jews bequeathed to later ages two factors crucial to the emergence and self-perpetuation of allosemitism.
  1998, Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus, Modernity, Culture, and 'the Jew', page 148
  While it may not be entirely accurate to call these phrases 'anti-Jewish tinged gibes', as the Jewish Telegraph reporter did, they are nonetheless characterised by allosemitism's construction of Jewish difference.
  2006, Jewish Culture and History - Volume 8, Issues 1-3, page 15
  As a result of the latter prejudice, some integrationists developed an internal antisemitism or, perhaps, allosemitism, whereby an acculturated Jew looked at a traditional Jew and began to scorn him for being Other.
  2006, Jews in Russia and Eastern Europe - Issue 56, page 58
  But what we have learned from Taguieff and many others about the new antisemitism, seems to temper Bauman's optimistic perspective: it is indeed rather difficult to state today that allosemitism has lost any validity.
  2014, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Confronting Allosemitism in Europe: The Case of Belgian Jews