New York Times updates style guide to ‘antisemitism,’ losing the hyphen

The New York Times has updated its style guide and now favors the use of the spelling “antisemitism” over “anti-Semitism.”

The change was made in August but was not announced publicly at the time, Jewish Insider reports.

“We are dropping the hyphen and lowercasing the S, which is now the style of The Associated Press and is preferred by many academics and other experts. Those who favor antisemitism argue that the hyphenated form, with the uppercase S, may inadvertently lend credence to the discredited notion of Jews as a separate race,” the paper announced in a memo to editors at the time.

Earlier this year, the Associated Press updated its style guide, which is used by media around the world, to adopt the hyphen-less version of the word. The Times of Israel also followed suit.