Wirt wrote:
> It's rare to catch the NY Times in a major faux pas, but it's
> difficult, if
> not essentially impossible for Arabs to be anti-semitic. The
> semitic people
> *are* the Arabs, as well as the Phoenicians, the Akkadians,
> and the Hebrews.
Emotionally charged words are all the more likely to take a connotation
which is not their literal denotation.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=anti-semitism has two of the three
dictionaries defining anti-semitism as against Jews / Jewish people, with
the third having it against "Semites, esp. Jews". But that's language for
you.

> Nevertheless, a more proper title for the article would be:
> "Anti-Zionism Is Deepening Among Muslims."
That the "Arab leaders" need to "often insist, reflect a dislike for
Israelis and Zionism but not for Jews and Judaism" would seem to indicate
that whatever has deepened is not so obviously selective in what it is
against. A look at the treatment of the Jews of Tripoli, Libya in response
to the UN's declaration recognizing Israel shows that not all responses are
so carefully nuanced. The Phoenicians and the Akkadians have been much less
of a problem.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
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