xenophobia

noun

Etymology: From xeno- + -phobia.

1. A fear, antipathy, or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

   “The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.””

   “The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.”

2. A fear of aliens.