All I know is that I don't know nothin'

[cyrano]

More white privelege. I'm reading a lot about 'the new antisemitism' where arabs hate jews. (It doesn't sound that new, does it?) But my question here is, aren't arabs also semites? (As well as Egyptians, I think.) And, in fact, aren't most converted jews likely to *not* be from semitic stock?

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[cerulean-me.livejournal.com]

Yup yup yup. I always thought the decendents of Shem (Noah's son, possible first, maybe second- depending on who you talk to, but largely accepted at the eldest) who went on a populated the middle east. Semetic languages are Maltese, Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic and others that I can't remember now...

In any case, I'm guessing around WWII when the term "anti-semetic" becase popular it just stuck to the Jews, and ignorance led to people thinking it was limited to Jews.