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Criticizing the State of Israel isn’t antisemitism. Supporting the bombing and killing of Palestinians (who are Semitic) is. The Jews in Israel aren’t even Semitic and I know this because my family descends from them. They’re from Europe. They’re white.
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Anonymous 10w

I want to agree but this is honestly a bad argument. You know antisemitism refers to discrimination against Jews. Many of the terms we regularly use are inaccurate (like caucasian) but that doesn't make it fair to dismiss people's claims on the basis of them using the common definition.

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Anonymous 10w

That’s not how words work. “Antisemitism” was a word coined to refer to Jews (not by Jews by the way).

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Anonymous 10w

Jews are indigenous to Judea and were expelled by Romans roughly 2,000 years ago. As they spread to several places around the world, do you think it’s possible that they reproduced with people of different origins to the point where future generations don’t exactly look like their ancestors, but still share that common ancestor?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

To be clear I prefer not to use historically inaccurate or inprecise terms myself but I'm not going to selectively call people out on using them and use that against them when I know what they mean

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 10w

“Nice” comes from the word for ignorant in Latin but we all know it means something different

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