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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.
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.
>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.