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    10 months ago

    Palestinians are semites too, how can supporting semites be anti-semitic?

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      10 months ago

      because your defintion of the word is wrong. Here is the worldwide accepted definition of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

      Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism)[a] is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews.[2][3][4] This sentiment is a form of racism,[5][6] and a person who harbours it is called an antisemite.

      and especially regarding your statement:

      Though ‘antisemitism’ could be construed as prejudice against people who speak other Semitic languages, this is not how the term is commonly used.

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        10 months ago

        The word is completely wrong, not his definition. Not all semites are Jews. The semites are a race of people that originate from the region of Palestine including Arabs. Arab is a Semitic language.

        If anything the Palestinians look a lot more like Semites than the Zionists from Europe.

        https://www.dictionary.com/browse/semite

        It’s like saying being anti-black would mean you hate Christians because some black people in Africa used to be Christian.

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        10 months ago

        Then they should use a different word, and stop hiding behind it to escape legitimate criticism.

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          this is a worldwide (!) accepted and established defintion of the word, but because you dont want to use it in it’s correct definition everybody else should change?

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              they do. evidence is above your post :) Let us be polite or just fucking ignore each other this time. I dont want to do this again.