And thank you for your reply. You have made your position clear on Israel, the IDF and Israel and I have made my position clear on the same points. I don't feel there's any need for further discussion, as we will just keep going round and round. I am going to leave things where they are. Thanks again for your previous posts. It's always best to take part in exchanges that don't involve name-calling or insults. The word "Semitic" or "Semite" is considered obsolete when referring to race or ethnicity. There are Semitic languages (mainly Hebrew and Arabic) but no Semitic people in modern times. In fact, there has never been a shared Semitic identity among Semitic-speaking peoples. When posters write that "antisemitism" refers to both Jews and Arabs, they are mistaken. In German and English, the word "antisemitism" and all its derivatives have only referred to hatred of Jews and never included Arabs. You can read about it in detail here: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semite 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://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/wilhelm-marr
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