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For all of the people who say that Palestinians are Semites and therefore Zionists are antisemitic:
Let's forget about the stupidity of the argument on semantic grounds (the term antisemitism ONLY means hating Jews.) Let's pretend it means "hating Semites" like you claim.
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Let's forget about the stupidity of the argument on semantic grounds (the term antisemitism ONLY means hating Jews.) Let's pretend it means "hating Semites" like you claim.
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Are Palestinians Semites?
If they descended from Canaanites and Jebusites, then they are not Semites - but Hamites, according to the Biblical list of nations in Genesis. So your argument fails off the bat.
(Of course, they are not, but let's keep going.)
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If they descended from Canaanites and Jebusites, then they are not Semites - but Hamites, according to the Biblical list of nations in Genesis. So your argument fails off the bat.
(Of course, they are not, but let's keep going.)
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If they are descendants of Ishmael, like other Arabs, then they are...half Semites. Because Hagar, their foremother, was Egyptian.
Of course, if they are Ishmaelites, that means they aren't indigenous to Palestine, but to Arabia.
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Of course, if they are Ishmaelites, that means they aren't indigenous to Palestine, but to Arabia.
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So if you want to make a stupid anti-Israel argument based on bogus etymology of "antisemitism," you either have to admit that Pals aren't Semites and your argument is stupid, or they ARE Semites and belong in Arabia, their homeland.
Which do you choose?
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Which do you choose?
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