Guest Allen,

An interesting site on the Khazars.

I was reminded of a study by statisticians who calculated that everyone alive today has a common ancester alive about 2,300 - 2,500 years ago. Therefore everyone in the world today has a semitic ancestor! Everyone who was alive then is either related to everyone who is alive now or is not related to anyone alive today.

I will conceed your point about the meaning of anti-semitism although whoever coined it didn't do a very good job due to its lack of clarity. However the arguments put forward for the definition of anti-semitism fall down with the word anti-semitic. This definitely means against semites and not specific to Jews. (The argument being there is no word semitism so anti-semitism means what the coiner meant it to mean. This is not true of anti-semitic as Hebrew and Arabic, for example, are both semitic languages. So anti-semitic and anti-semitism cannot both be only anti-Jewish).