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- From: astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein)
- Subject: Re: ANTISEMITE - Is there a better word?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.223817.14567@nysernet.org>
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- References: <1993Jan22.034419.17430@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:38:17 GMT
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- EXTDSM@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (MADDISON,David) writes:
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- >Do people think that the word "antisemite" properly conveys its
- intended use to >mean a person against Jews and Judaism? Technically,
- semites are members of a >group which share the semitic languages and
- include Jews, Arabs, Assyrians etc, >all of whom are descendants of
- Shem. How about Judeophobe?
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- Except when deliberately distorted for their own purposes by
- anti-semites, the word anti-semite quite properly conveys its meaning,
- which has nothing to do with semites.
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- Alan H. Stein astein@israel.nysernet.org
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