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Subject: "anti-semitic" would logically have to include "anti-Arab"

Author:
Ian (Australia)

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Date Posted: 21:28:25 12/04/04 Sat
In reply to: Roberdin 's message, "Anti-Israel" on 19:22:52 12/03/04 Fri

The Arabs are a semitic people too. An "anti-semitic Arab" is either a case of linguistic failure or a case for therapy. Very probably both, given that hatred of any ethnic group can only be a kind of psychosis.

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 14:07:46 12/05/04 Sun

I believe that you are technically correct, but the word has really lost all racial connotations and refers to the Jewish religion these days. Even those who have been proud haters of Jews have called themselves anti-semitists.

I understand that the whole thing is derived from Genesis, anyway. Noah's three sons, Shem (or Sem), Ham, and Japheth, being the only surviving humans after the flood, are the source of all people subsequently. Those who descend from Ham are Hamites (Africans), those from Shem are Semites (Middle Easterners) and those from Japheth are Japethites (Europeans). Firstly, the whole thing is clearly nonsense; and, secondly, it does rather indicate that the blokes who wrote it had never heard of the Chinese, Indians, Native Americans, Polynesians, etc etc. Perhaps if the writers of these Bible stories had known about races other than those three which came into contact with each other in the eastern Mediterranean, Noah would have been given more sons!

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