Sorry for coming late to the party, but better late than never. Looking up"Semite" on line would be an excellent idea! 👍 You would find that the use of the word "Semite" to refer to an ethnic group is outdated. The Encyclopedia Britannica explains it this way (my bold text): "Semite, obsolete term, popularized in the 19th century, that originally described a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, and Tigrinya, among others. The term was later used in an ethnic sense, even though there has never been a shared Semitic identity among Semitic-speaking peoples. When used in that sense, Semite often referred specifically to people of Jewish origin, regardless of what language they spoke, a reflection of the antisemitism that was concurrent in 19th-century Europe." https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semite "Antisemitism" has in the English language only ever referred to a hatred of Jews and never to a hatred of Arabs or other ethnic groups. The word "anti-Semitism" or "antisemitism" entered the English language in1881 from the German Antisemitismus, which had been coined by Wilhelm Marr, a German journalist and agitator who thought it sounded more scientific and academic than the older Judenhaß ("Jew hatred"). Marr himself is regarded as the "father of modern antisemitism," although he apparently renounced his anti-Jewish beliefs as an old man. https://njop.org/the-origin-of-word-anti-semitism/
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