Emancipation of Jews is rooted in Enlightenment thought. This does not mean that it is anti-Semitic in nature. It is the argument for equal political rights for Jews and and the removal of restrictions from them. Some did justify the need for emancipation because Jews were backward and they needed to be brought into civil society to progress. However, the actual concept is not anti-Semitic.
It would be like if today there were government restrictions on what occupations Jews could enter. People fighting to remove them would not be considered anti-Semitic. So too, fighting restrictions on Jews during the 18th and 19th century is not anti-Semitic.