Jewish, or Jewish-looking?
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vicky_lc2001 — 10 years ago(October 13, 2015 12:41 PM)
Ever heard of the term semitic or semite? Jews are an ethnic group categorized as Semitic, they're ethnically similar to Arabs who are also semitic. Both have similar cultural/religious practices. Heard of the term Hebrews from the bible? Hebrews are the current Jews. Ever heard of the story of Abraham and his sons Ishmael and Isaac, Ishmael is said to be the father of the Arabs while Isaac the father of the Jews. The reason why some Jews in Europe don't look very semitic is because they are mixed with Europeans, the reason why Jews from Russia/Central Asia don't look very semitic is because many of them are converts.
But just because they are semites, it doesn't mean they can't be white or have light hair and eyes without being mixed, many Arabs today are light skinned and can sometimes have light eyes/hair. They are no different from Europeans from the Mediterranean.
An Arab can be anti-Jew but can't be anti-semitic because they themselves are Semites like Jews, they are ethnically related people with different but similar cultures/religion.
Global Warming, it's a personal decision innit?Nigel Tufnel
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YakPro — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 11:54 AM)
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n Arab can be anti-Jew but can't be anti-semitic because they themselves are Semites like Jews, they are ethnically related people with different but similar cultures
/religion.
Uhm, NO.
Many Arabs are quite anti-Semitic. You are mixing up the notion of the Semite peoples with a term that in the DICTIONARY is defined as "Jew Hatred." Don't believe me? Look up Wilhelm Marr, a German (surprised?) who came up with the term as a polite way for people to say they hated Jews. Nowadays, anti-Semites like to say nonsense like "I'm not anti-Semitic, I'm anti-Zionist" , which is the new polite way of saying they hate the Jewish people. -
vicky_lc2001 — 10 years ago(April 01, 2016 09:03 PM)
It's wrong to use Semitic to refer to Jews alone. IMO there are a lot of anti Semitic opinions on people from the Middle East. You probably just want to separate them from Jews so it's more acceptable to be bigoted against them.
Idc either way but be honest about it.
Global Warming, it's a personal decision innit?Nigel Tufnel
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YakPro — 10 years ago(April 02, 2016 08:32 PM)
With all due respect you're still wrong.
No one is saying that the term "Semites" does not include both Arabs and Israelis. Your mistake is in claiming that Arabs cannot be anti-Semitic because th16d0ey themselves are Semitic peoples, but you've missed the DICTIONARY definition of anti-semitism, which is "Jew hatred." It's similar to claiming that Blacks cannot be racist because of the history of racism against African-americans.
You probably just want to separate them from Jews so it's more acceptable to be bigoted against them.
As I mentioned before, that was precisely the reason a German named Wilhelm Marr coined the term many years ago as a more polite way of expressing antipathy towards the Jewish people.