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Thread #80337   Message #1466399
Posted By: Torctgyd
20-Apr-05 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: The New Anti-semitism
Subject: RE: BS: The New Anti-semitism
Thought I'd join in the fun and put my pedant hat on:

As Semites are defined as "A member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Near East and northern Africa, including the Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians" and that apparently most of the people of the Jewish faith are descended from Khazak and other converts and not from expatriates from the ancestral home of the Semitic people; it follows that if anyone is being Anti-Semitic it is the Israeli Government.

Shalom.