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Palestinians are semites. Also being against genocide isn't antisemitism
This is just the right wing weaponizing accusations of antisemitism even as they, themselves, are antisemitic.
Saving people a quick search.
What is meant by semitic people?
Semitic describes a group of languages — including Hebrew and Arabic — as well as the people who traditionally speak them. Semitic is rooted in the Biblical name Shem, the son of Noah, who is traditionally thought of as the direct ancestor of the Jews and Arabs.
"Semites" as a description of a set of people is as much antiquated a terminology as the word "Aryans". In fact it was Ernest Renan that first made that distinction in the 19th century to specifically frame history as a tension between Semites and Aryans (cf Hannah Arendt). It's of course just a bunch of scientific racism bollocks. And it is precisely because of that that the term "antisemitism" has always meant hatred of Jews in particular (in the "Jews vs Aryans" sense).
The only term that persists in the sciences today is the term "semitic languages", which is basically similar to "indo-european languages", and which of course has nothing to do with antisemitism.
Yeah all this bill says is Gabe Evans is an Antisemite.
The Semites thing is a red herring. anti-Semitism is Jew hatred.
Downvoted, but correct. Terms don't always follow their literal meaning.