[HANASHIR:11321] Re: Jews & Arabs are both 'Semitic'....

[Sholom Simon <sholom...>]

At 03:48 PM 4/14/2002 -0400, billyjonas (at) juno(dot)com wrote:
>hey, y'all -- it's true many Palestinians and other Arabs are anti-Jewish
>and anti-Israel; i'm having a hard time with folks writing that they are
>anti-Semitic, since they are a Semitic people as well as we are.

I already wrote last week, that "anti-semitic" was a term specifically
coined to refer to anti-Jewish.  Look in any dictionary to see what the
definition is.

>WEBSTERS: "Semite - a member of any of the peoples whose language is
>Semitic, including the Hebrews, Arabs, Phonecians, Assyrians,
>Babylonians, etc.; not, specifically, a Jew."

Fine.  Now look at Websters under ANTI-SEMITE and see what it says.

-- Sholom


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