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Do you base all your definitions of English words on fairy tales and 
folklore?

Since Shem did not exist and no one can prove he did or know who his 
descendants are, then Semites do not exist.

Semitic refers to a LANGUAGE group that includes Akkadian, Arabic, and 
Hebrew.

http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.10.11/arts4.html

That this word is nonsensical has often been observed, not only by 
physical anthropologists who point out that there is no such thing as a 
"Semitic" (or, for that matter, "Aryan") race, the inhabitants of the 
Middle East being a mixture of many different racial stocks, but also by 
the Arab world, which has argued rather disingenuously that, since it is 
"Semitic" itself, it cannot possibly be "anti-Semitic." For this reason, 
some writers and publications, including the Forward, have preferred to 
spell the word as "antisemitism." As the Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer 
has put it:
"Anti-Semitism" is altogether an absurd construction, since there is no 
such thing as 'Semitism' to which it might be opposed. In German... 
there is no hyphen, and the word has no precise meaning, although its 
connotations are well understood.




"Ed" <ed@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:xUY6f.10728$gj1.9293@fed1read05...
: ����� ������/Riain Barton wrote:
:
: > Semitic is a language group, not a racial group.
: >
: >
: > "Ed" <ed@aol.com> wrote in message
: > news:LIV6f.10683$gj1.7724@fed1read05...
: > : ����� ������/Riain Barton wrote:
: > :
: > : > Are all Christians bigoted idiots like you?
: > : >
: > : >
: > : >
: > : Probably not. But, I  have nothing against Jews, but other Semites 
are
: > : mostly assholes.
: >
: >
: The word "Semitic" is derived from the Greek Greek , of Shem, one of 
the
: three sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21); the noun
: form referring to a person is Semite. The negative form of the 
adjective
: anti-Semitic is almost always used to mean "anti-Jewish", 
specifically.