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Israel is now the primary driver of antisemitism throughout the world.
Technically the genocide is antisemitic, because Palestinians are semitic.
Antisemitism only has ever meant Jew hatred. Semitic is otherwise a linguistic term.
This argument is asinine.
Looking into this, it turns out all the dictionaries indeed seem to say it's jew specific, which I think is a failing of the English language, because Jews are a drop in the bucket for semitic populations.
I'll concede your point, despite the word structure literally implying something bigger.
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The term Antisemitism was invented in German, so no inherent limitation of English. Anti comes from Ancient Greek in the first place, so no this isn’t a limitation of English.
There are many terms and words used, which aren’t simply the sum of its parts.
A hammer has nothing to do with ham for example.
I'm referring to the fact that "anti" and "semitism" are existing complete words. Every other example of a word given the "anti" prefix that i can think of is very clearly meaning, the opposite or against the existing definition of the word.
Antidisestablishmentarianism Antisocial Anticlimactic Antiacidemic Antibacterial Antifreeze Antihero Antihistamine
Hammer in your comment is a poor example, because hammer is its own word, despite the first three letters happening to be an existing other word. Antisemitism is clearly anti and semitism.
What's annoying, is since this term was coined (as you said, in germany), it was purely a dog whistle for jew hatred.
Wikipedia:
We need to let language do its thing, and adjust the meaning of this word to mean what it appears to mean, not some wink wink nudge nudge version you have to know ahead of time.
Antiair weapons don’t fight or kill the air.
Antisemitism was introduced as a more polite and scientific sounding euphemism for anti-Judaism. It’s just like racists today calling themselves race realists.
I mean, it's not like antisemitism needed help, but here we are.
It didn't need help being proudly adopted by uneducated bigots who believed in space lasers, but it was largely missing the intellectual generally accepting crowd. It sure got 'em now.
I don't blame Jews for what's happening, I blame Israel. Yes, there are many Jews that support what's happening, but that's no different from any other body of people.
Claiming what Israel is doing right now reflects on all Jews is the same as blaming trump on all Americans.
Agreed.
Antisemites have always blamed the Jews for Antisemitism.
They said Israel. You said Jews. You're aware those are separate entities, yes? Or are you playing pedantic word games on purpose..?