[HANASHIR:11322] Re: Jews & Arabs are both 'Semitic'....

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I don't have Websters handy, but Oxford says:

Semite: a member of a group ... that includes the Jews and Arabs and formerly 
Phoenicians and Assyrians,

Semitic: referring to Semites or their languages

anti-Semitic/ism/ite: hostile to Jews (no alternate meanings)

That's what it means, and what it has always meant since it came into 
widespread use.  Please don't revise the accepted meaning of this term by 
asserting unfounded etymological analysis.

Is there no specific entry in Websters for "anti-Semitism"???

Now back to music.

Michael

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> Date: Monday, 15-Apr-02 10:02 AM
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> Subject:  [HANASHIR:11320] Jews & Arabs are both 'Semitic'....
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> 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. 'Course
> some ot their seemingly nihilistic policies and actions qualify as
> anti-semitic (destroying us and them)..... But i think it's an important
> distinction.
> We are one.
> 
> 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."
> 
> ~Billy
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