So I got curious whether the term "anti-semitic" could be attributed to Palestinians, their also being a Semitic people, in their decades long struggle with Israel. Turns out, yes, indeed. There are Israelis arguing that its meaning should be based on definitions from apparently many reputable dictionaries defining the term as synonymous with "anti-Jewish".
Holy shit!
OK, then. I don't want to check the definition of "rainbow" in those same dictionaries but, if not yet, then pretty soon they'll define it in terms of LGBTQ+. The actual rainbow will be given some other name, if it's lucky.
Antisemitism was coined by a German Jew-hater to make Judenhass, Jew hatred, sound more scientific. It has never meant hatred of Semites. There are Semitic languages but Semitic races is an obsolete race science theory that doesn't mean anything. But that's beside the point, as the actual etymology of antisemitism means and has always meant Jew hatred, and most everyone knows that - the only reason people try to change the definition is to cloud things and make it harder for Jews to use a word that's been used for centuries, coined by their haters to describe their hatred - in fact, some people are starting to spell it out as Jew hatred so people don't try to make this disingenuous point. We already have words to describe anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Muslim hatred, Islamophobia etc.
So I got curious whether the term "anti-semitic" could be attributed to Palestinians, their also being a Semitic people, in their decades long struggle with Israel. Turns out, yes, indeed. There are Israelis arguing that its meaning should be based on definitions from apparently many reputable dictionaries defining the term as synonymous with "anti-Jewish".
Holy shit!
OK, then. I don't want to check the definition of "rainbow" in those same dictionaries but, if not yet, then pretty soon they'll define it in terms of LGBTQ+. The actual rainbow will be given some other name, if it's lucky.
Antisemitism was coined by a German Jew-hater to make Judenhass, Jew hatred, sound more scientific. It has never meant hatred of Semites. There are Semitic languages but Semitic races is an obsolete race science theory that doesn't mean anything. But that's beside the point, as the actual etymology of antisemitism means and has always meant Jew hatred, and most everyone knows that - the only reason people try to change the definition is to cloud things and make it harder for Jews to use a word that's been used for centuries, coined by their haters to describe their hatred - in fact, some people are starting to spell it out as Jew hatred so people don't try to make this disingenuous point. We already have words to describe anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Muslim hatred, Islamophobia etc.