Usage of 'Anti-semite'

[Mark Mandel]

Although I've heard an Arab Muslim, speaking against Israel, saying that he
couldn't be accused of being an antisemite because Arabs are Semites. BS.

Mark Mandel


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as I'm aware, "anti-Semitism" applies specifically to Jews and
> to no other people or peoples who speak or once spoke a Semitic
> language.
>
> -Wilson
> –––
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -----
> -Mark Twain
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> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Arun K Raman <arunkr.shivers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > I've been looking at Semitic culture recently. Anti-semite/anti-semitism
> or
> > whatever other combination that can be thought of is interesting as it
> deals
> > only with a very specific issue in relation to the semites. Well, the
> > popular usage is to denote something negative about Jews. My question is
> > whether the word combination seems to be used for the other semitic
> groups
> > as well even if it is in lesser amounts.
> > -
> > Arun K Raman
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