Anti-Serb sentiment

Anti-Serb sentiment or Serbophobia (Serbian: србофобија, romanized: srbofobija) refers to negative attitudes, prejudice or discrimination towards Serbs as an ethnic group. Historically, it has been a basis for the persecution, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of ethnic Serbs.

A distinctive form of anti-Serb sentiment is anti-Serbian sentiment, which can be defined as hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Serbia as a nation-state for Serbs. Additionally, another form of anti-Serb sentiment is discrimination or bias against Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Among the most widely-known historical proponents of anti-Serb sentiment was the 19th- and 20th-century Croatian Party of Rights. The most extreme elements of this party later became the Ustaše in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a Croatian fascist organization that came to power during World War II and instituted racial laws that specifically targeted Serbs, Jews, Roma and political dissidents. Their actions culminated in the genocide of Serbs and other minority groups that lived in that lived in the territory of the then-Independent State of Croatia.

The opposite of Serbophobia is Serbophilia.

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