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In historic times all Western Asia (see below), with the exception of the peninsula of Asia Minor, was Semitic. From the philological point of view the Semitic peoples are divided into four chief Babylonian-Assyrian Semites (East Semites), Chanaanitic Semites, (West Semites), Aramaic Semites (North Semites), and Arabian Semites (South Semites). The last-named group is divided into North and South Arabians, of which last the Abyssinians are a branch
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Semites
Bernard Lewis, "Semites and Anti-Semites"...
Anti-Semitism has always applied solely to the Jewish faith