by Max Barry

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Region: Europe

Celtia cymru wrote:

Do you know who are Semites or Semitic peoples? - Not only Jewish peoples are descendants of Semites, but Arabs and Ethiopians - Discrimination and hatred of them would also technically be anti-semiticism aswell...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic

"While the conjunction of the units anti-, Semite, and -ism indicates antisemitism as being directed against all Semitic people, the term was popularized in Germany in 1873 as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (Jew-hatred), although it had been used for at least two decades prior, and that has been its common use since then."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

I think that it is widely understood what is meant when one uses the term "antisemitism", and claiming that it includes Arabs and Ethiopians does nothing to mitigate the remarks that have been made about the Jewish people here.

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