alt Hacker Newsok I actually wanted to look up what antisematism actually means since the only context I've seen it is israel, so I looked up what sematism is which lead me to one who has sematic qualities which is:
Semitic
of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic
Saudi Arabia is arabic so technically they're correct?
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umanwizard • today at 3:54 PM
"semitic" has this broader meaning, yes, but the specific term "antisemitism" is only used to refer to Jews, not to Arabs (or, for that matter, Amharic-speaking Ethiopians).
It also doesn't specifically refer to the State of Israel, but to Jews everywhere.
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Similar to other racial categories these do not have a real link to reality, and are mostly artifacts of how racist tried to link these to something tangible (Think how White is applied to a specific subset of people with pale skin)