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Some of the smartest people throughout history have been anti-semites. list. 👇 ​Manetho (Egyptian-Greek historian, 3rd century BCE) ​Apion (Hellenistic-Egyptian grammarian and rhetorician) ​Cicero (Roman statesman and orator) ​Seneca the Younger (Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman) ​Tacitus (Roman historian and politician) ​Juvenal (Roman poet and satirist) ​Medieval & Early Modern Era ​John Chrysostom (Early Church Father and Archbishop of Constantinople) ​Martin Luther (German theologian and key figure in the Protestant Reformation) ​Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch Christian humanist and scholar) ​Voltaire (French Enlightenment philosopher and writer) ​19th Century Thinkers, Authors & Artists ​G.W.F. Hegel (German philosopher) ​Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher) ​Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian novelist and philosopher) ​Richard Wagner (German composer and essayist) ​ ​Houston Stewart Chamberlain (British-born German racial theorist) ​20th Century Figures ​Henry Ford (American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company) ​Martin Heidegger (German philosopher) ​Carl Schmitt (German jurist and political theorist) ​G.K. Chesterton (English author, critic, and philosopher) ​Hilaire Belloc (Anglo-French writer and historian) ​T.S. Eliot (American-British poet and Nobel laureate) ​Ezra Pound (American modernist poet and critic) ​Louis-Ferdinand Céline (French novelist) ​Antiquity & Late Antiquity ​Apollonius Molon (Greek rhetorician) ​Lysimachus of Alexandria (Hellenistic grammarian) ​Celsus (Greek philosopher and critic of early Christianity and Judaism) ​Quintilian (Roman rhetorician) ​Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher) ​Rutilius Namatianus (Roman poet and official) ​Medieval & Renaissance Era ​Peter the Venerable (French Benedictine abbot and scholar) ​Thomas Aquinas (Italian Dominican friar and philosopher; articulated influential theological positions on the civic status of Jewish populations) ​Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish nobleman, politician, and Golden Age writer) ​Enlightenment & 19th Century ​Paul de Lagarde (German biblical scholar and orientalist) ​Bruno Bauer (German philosopher and theologian) ​Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (French philosopher and political theorist) ​Mikhail Bakunin (Russian revolutionary and anarchist theorist) ​Ernest Renan (French orientalist, philologist, and historian) ​Nikolai Gogol (Russian novelist and dramatist) ​Edouard Drumont (French journalist and founder of the Antisemitic League of France) ​20th Century ​Alexis Carrel (French surgeon, biologist, and Nobel laureate) ​Charles Lindbergh (American aviator and military officer) ​Charles Coughlin (Canadian-American Catholic priest and radio commentator) ​Knut Hamsun (Norwegian novelist and Nobel laureate) ​Giovanni Papini (Italian journalist, essayist, and novelist) ​Charles Maurras (French author, poet, and political theorist) ​P.G. Wodehouse (English comic novelist; faced criticism for wartime broadcasts, though degree of personal ideology remains debated) Philosophy, Science & Thought ​David Hume (Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and empiricist) ​Immanuel Kant (German philosopher; expressed explicit anti-Judaic critiques in his works on ethics and religion) ​Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Genevan Enlightenment philosopher) ​Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian philosopher; expressed self-critical and problematic views regarding Jewish cultural creativity in his private notebooks) ​Charles Dickens (English novelist; created the stereotypical character Fagin in Oliver Twist, though he later attempted to soften the depiction) ​George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright, critic, and Nobel laureate) ​Roald Dahl (British author of classic children's literature, who made repeated explicit anti-Semitic statements later in life) ​Virginia Woolf (English modernist writer; expressed conflicting personal anti-Semitic prejudices in her diaries, despite being married to a Jewish husband)1/2