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Glossary
Definitions of terms used throughout this site, including contested terms where meaning is genuinely disputed. For contested terms, we present the range of definitions in use across political, cultural, and legal perspectives — with sources.
Showing terms tagged History — show all
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- Antisemitism Contested current-events history israel
- Antisemitism is hostility toward, prejudice against, or discrimination against Jewish people as Jews. It is among the oldest documented forms of group hatred, persisting from antiquity through the med...
- Apartheid Contested current-events history israel
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- Blood Libel history israel
- A false antisemitic accusation, originating in 12th-century England, that Jews murder non-Jewish children — often for ritual or religious purposes. The accusation has no factual basis and has historic...
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- Genocide Contested current-events history israel
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- Occupation Contested current-events history israel
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- Settler Colonialism Contested history israel
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- Two-State Solution current-events history israel
- A proposed framework for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the establishment of two independent states: Israel and a Palestinian state, generally envisioned to include the West Bank a...