“In fact, when they were being taken to the gas chambers, there are some accounts of life in the concentration camps saying that Jews were called ‘the Muslims,’” Albanese said.

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According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, the term [‘antisemitism’] was coined in 1879 by German journalist Wilhelm Marr “to designate anti-Jewish campaigns [and] was spread through use by anti-Jewish political movements and the general public.” The IHRA notes that the term has “since its inception referred to prejudice against Jews alone.”

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Albanese has come under scrutiny over allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias numerous times in the past, particularly by the United Nations watchdog UN Watch.