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Does that make supporting Israel anti-semitic? 🤔
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7 comments:
detransthrowaway on scored.co
26 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
No, because the term "anti-semitic" is a slight misnomer. While the Palestinians can be considered Semitic due to being an Arab people, the term "anti-semitic" almost always is used to refer to specifically what we call modern day Israeli Jews.
disoriented on scored.co
26 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
False. jews pushed for the word Semitic to mean jews specifically and only. "Semitic" derives from the book of Genesis, referring to the descendants of Shem, the son of Noah and did not apply exclusively to the people of Palestine. Even wikijewdia agrees with this:

>Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.[6][7][8] First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen school of history, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis,[9] together with the parallel terms Hamites and Japhetites.

It was jews in the 19th century who started using the phrase "anti-semitic" to mean anti-jew. So, Palestinians are absolutely Semitic.
detransthrowaway on scored.co
26 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
The meaning of the word has still changed. Though possibly technically correct, the term anti-semitic still refers to the jews. It's like how nobody means they're full of glee when they say they're gay. Stupid used to mean astonished, i.e. stupefied, awesome used to mean in awe, to hold a sense of respectful fear, many such cases.
cis_scum on scored.co
26 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
You'd think so, but jews usurped the word "semitic" in the early 1900s so it only applies to them.
Yggdrasill on scored.co
26 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a shit
the-new-style on scored.co
26 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
Ethiopians are Semitic and the second largest semitic population after Arabs, so saying Nigger could be anti-semitic too
USSDefiantJazz on scored.co
26 days ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
They're both sand-niggers.
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