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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
I'm rather curious as to why it is that those who tend to support Palestinian claims against Israel are smeared with the "anti-Semite" label, yet those who support Israeli claims against the Palestinians are not (instead, they are smeared with the "Zionist" label). Both peoples are Semites, the Palestinians probably more so than the Jews.
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That's a good point, and an excellent illustration of how the very term "anti-semitic" itself comes prepackaged with all kinds of unwarranted assumptions. Do you know how it came to be coined as a term to describe people who hate/dislike/mistrust Jews?