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His stories don't have any anti-Jew element (he probably knew that the truth is scary than fiction), but you can definitely cherrypick examples from his letters. I remember reading a letter he wrote to Frank Belknap Long, where he does bemoan the concentration of Asiatic and Semitic immigrants and minorities in NYC.
I guess if you stretch the definition of antisemitic to include all Semitic peoples including Arabs and Levant, he did regularly feature those types as evil cultists in some of his short stories, most infamously in Horror at Red Hook. It's kind of forgotten these days, but there was a big surge of immigration of Lebanese (mostly Christians, iirc) to the US in the early decades of the 20th century, which Lovecraft encountered firsthand while living in NYC.
I guess if you stretch the definition of antisemitic to include all Semitic peoples including Arabs and Levant, he did regularly feature those types as evil cultists in some of his short stories, most infamously in Horror at Red Hook. It's kind of forgotten these days, but there was a big surge of immigration of Lebanese (mostly Christians, iirc) to the US in the early decades of the 20th century, which Lovecraft encountered firsthand while living in NYC.
