They conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism & anti-crimes against humanity in order to trample on people’s first amendment rights to speech & assembly.
They conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism & anti-crimes against humanity in order to trample on people’s first amendment rights to speech & assembly.
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There is much conflation going on, much of it intentional and sinister, but antisemitism does have a specific meaning & etymology pertaining to Jews, according to Wikipedia:
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No, the term was adopted by Jew-haters in Germany because it sounded more “scientific” than the older term Judenhass (Jewhate). Recall, many people once believed that the idea of “race” was a scientific explanation for differences among peoples. They believed that anthropology, linguistics, and evolutionary biology would back up their local cultural prejudices.
However, the German antisemites never cared about Arabs, Ethiopians, or other Semitic-speaking peoples. It was always about Jews: they wanted support for the political position that Europe’s Jews were a foreign corrupting influence who should be expelled or killed. “Antisemitismus” was a thin façade of bad social science over a continuation of the same Jewhate that Martin Luther and medieval passion-plays had expressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism
I’m pretty sure that using the term “Semite” in any other context than the modern interpretation of “antisemitic”, meaining prejudice against Jews, stopped being a thing roughly around the same time that we stopped treating the bible as an authority on the classification of human races. Same with Hamites and Japhetites.
“Semitic languages” are a language family that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and Amharic.
However the notion of a “Semitic race” is pseudoscience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
This is an intellectually disingenuous argument that tries to sound like a clever gotcha, instead it’s just antisemitic in and of itself.
Seriously? Gonna be pedantic about “semitic” and then intentionally use “Zionist” wrong?
Looks to me like they used Zionist correctly.
They’re settler colonists supporting a genocidal apartheid ethnostate.
Name checks out.
Even liberals can understand how these terms apply - if they decide to honestly interrogate the subject.