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hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns underway in central Europe at that time. Although this term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites.
anti-Semitism. (2008). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 8, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.search.eb.com/eb/article-9007807
Wikipedia puts it more succinctly
Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism, also known as judeophobia) is prejudice and hostility toward Jews as a religious, racial, or ethnic group. While the term's etymology indicates that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, since its creation it has been used exclusively to refer to hostility towards Jews.[1][2]
The only reason I mention this is that if you start going around saying that anti-semitism applies to descrimination towards Arabic people in front of Jewish people they are likely to be deeply offended.