The use of anti-Semitic to imply Jew was a German journalistic artifact starting around 1890.
The original and real meaning of the word "Semitic" is Arab, coming from Shem, a son of Noah, who is supposedly the father or all Arabs, including Hebrew.
In particular,. the word "Semitic" means "of an Arab language group".
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First used in the 1770s by members of the
Göttingen School of History, this
biblical terminology for race was derived from
Shem (
Hebrew: שֵׁם), one of the three
sons of Noah in the
Book of Genesis,
[9] together with the parallel terms
Hamites and
Japhetites.
In archaeology, the term is sometimes used
informally as "a kind of shorthand" for
ancient Semitic-speaking peoples.
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The term Semitic in a racial sense was coined by members of the
Göttingen School of History in the early 1770s. Other members of the Göttingen School of History coined the separate term
Caucasian in the 1780s. These terms were used and developed by numerous other scholars over the next century. In the early 20th century, the
racialist classifications of
Carleton S. Coon included the Semitic peoples in the Caucasian race, as similar in appearance to the
Indo-European,
Northwest Caucasian, and
Kartvelian-speaking peoples.
[10] Due to the interweaving of language studies and
cultural studies, the term also came to be applied to the religions (
ancient Semitic and
Abrahamic) and
ethnicities of various cultures associated by geographic and linguistic distribution.
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The word "anti-Semitic" did not start having a Jewish connotation until around 1890 German authors.
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The terms "anti-Semite" or "antisemitism" came by a circuitous route to refer more narrowly to anyone who was hostile or discriminatory towards Jews in particular.
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Anthropologists of the 19th century such as
Ernest Renan readily aligned linguistic groupings with
ethnicity and culture, appealing to anecdote, science and folklore in their efforts to define racial character.
Moritz Steinschneider, in his periodical of Jewish letters
Hamaskir (3 (Berlin 1860), 16), discusses an article by
Heymann Steinthal[13] criticising Renan's article "New Considerations on the General Character of the Semitic Peoples, In Particular Their Tendency to Monotheism".
[14] Renan had acknowledged the importance of the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Israel etc. but called the Semitic races inferior to the
Aryan for their
monotheism, which he held to arise from their supposed lustful, violent, unscrupulous and selfish racial instincts. Steinthal summed up these predispositions as "Semitism", and so Steinschneider characterised Renan's ideas as "anti-Semitic prejudice".
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In 1879 the German journalist
Wilhelm Marr began the politicisation of the term by speaking of a struggle between Jews and Germans in a pamphlet called
Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum ("The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism"). He accused the Jews of being liberals, a people without roots who had Judaized Germans beyond salvation. In 1879 Marr's adherents founded the "League for Anti-Semitism",
[16] which concerned itself entirely with anti-Jewish political action.
Objections to the usage of the term, such as the obsolete nature of the term "Semitic" as a racial term and the exclusion of discrimination against non-Jewish Semitic peoples, have been raised since at least the 1930s.
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For anyone to imply that "Semitic" means Jewish, is horrific cultural appropriation.
It is an attempt by modern Zionists to steal the ancient heritage of all the ancient Arab civilizations, of which Hebrew and Jews are very minor members.
For example, Jerusalem is an ancient Canaanite city where Canaanites have always been the majority.
Jews got their name from the Canaanite city, not that the Jews named Jerusalem after them.
Jews were almost never significant in number or power.
They only ruled Jerusalem for a few hundred years, and left no significant marks, construction, or cultural relevance.
The only thing they did do was transcript the Old Testament, hundreds of years after it was supposed to have taken place.
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