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Thread #158999   Message #3765397
Posted By: MGM·Lion
14-Jan-16 - 04:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Terrorism, Again (Israel)
Subject: RE: BS: Terrorism, Again (Israel)
The fact that Arabs are also a semitic people is a semantic irrelevance. The term 'Antisemitism', by long usage which to any linguist trumps adventitious & factitious etymology, only means prejudice against Jews -- consult any decent dictionary*. The affectation that it must mean Arabs too is a profoundly irritating bit issue-muddying smartarsery.

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*eg in online Dictionary.com, the sole definition is

noun
1.
discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.