The Semites are a group of peoples and nations scattered around the Near and Middle East. According to the fictional garbage of the bible, the Semites descend from one of Noah's sons, Shem. Today, Semites include residents of the Arabian Peninsula who speak Arabic, Amharas and other East African countries, speakers of Syriac in today's Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, in addition to the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Babylonians who spoke varieties of Semitic languages such as Aramaic. I am no expert, but do your own research to find out more about the Semites and Semitic languages.
The point of this piece is that an estimated half a billion people on earth today are considered Semites who speak any of a number of Semitic languages, of which only 6 million (i.e. 0.000001%) speak Hebrew. Yet, Anti-semitism is generally understood to be a strictly anti-Jewish animus. How can that be?
One can imagine several answers:
1. As a result of the confusing stories about who is really responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus, Anti-semites blame Jews for the killing of Jesus. Pontius Pilate, the governor of the Roman province of Palaestina at the time, apparently did not find Jesus guilty of any crime, washed his hands of the affair and handed Jesus to the Jewish leaders to decide. In turn, the latter handed the decision to their own people who voted by acclaim to liberate the criminal Barabbas and crucify Jesus. According to this version of events then, the Jews themselves essentially decided to kill Jesus, blaming him not for declaring himself a prophet or the son of God, but because he declared himself King of the Jews. The inscription on top of the cross, INRI, is in Latin, not in Aramaic or Greek - hence it was effectively an execution carried out by the Romans - "INRI" being an abbreviation of Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum, or Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Regardless of whether or not this whole story is a fallacy made up by those who wrote the Gospels, the killing of Jesus was more of a political decision than a religious one. Still, the Romans did not shed any tears and were happy to get rid of Jesus because he posed a threat to their military occupation and stability in Palestine, but the Jewish leadership also did not want a competitor. In the end it was the Romans who implemented a Jewish decision by crucifying Jesus on behalf of the Jews. That is, both were equally responsible for killing Jesus.
2. European Jews had lived in small numbers in Europe for centuries, but during the 18th century, Eastern Europeans (Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Poland, etc.) - which is where most invading Israeli colons come from today - converted en masse to Judaism. Within a century, some time during the 19th century, with the Elightenment and the Industrial Revolution, followed by the rise of nationalisms, Jews began moving out of their ghettos and into the worlds of academia, commerce, banking, and other professional circles. Fanatic Protestants and Catholics saw a threat to their monopolies and began persecuting and discriminating against their Jewish partners and colleagues who invented the term Anti-semitism to describe this hatred they suffered from at the hands of these barbarian Christian Europeans. This all culminated with the pogroms, the two world wars, the Holocaust, and the monumental crime of the creation of Israel over the ashes of historic Palestine and the near annihilation of the native indigenous Palestinian people.
Consequently, the majority of adherents to the Jewish religion today are not Semites. They are Eastern Europeans (blond, red-haired, blue-eyed..., i.e. not at all the prototype of the dark-haired, brown-eyed people of the Near East, East Africa and the Arab world) who wear strange Russian hats and long furry coats that are needed in the sub-freezing temperatures of the Eastern European and Russian plains, but are otherwise unknown in the Near East. Hence, most Israelis who claim the land of Palestine as their own, because supposedly God gave it to them some 4,000 years ago according to biblical garbage, are not genetic or cultural descendants of the Hebrews. In addition, there are black African Jews, Indian Jews, North African Jews, Chinese Jews, European Jews, etc. all with very different genetic and cultural legacies and traditions, which further indicates that Judaism is just a religion, it is neither a culture nor does it represent a scientifically classifiable ethnic group. In other words, there is no such thing as a Jewish "people", and more to the point, there cannot be a scientific or legal claim of ownership by all the holders of the Jewish faith around the world to the land of Palestine.
The creation of the State of Israel cannot therefore be justified in any way, except on the sole criterion of a colonial European project established at the Congress of Basel in 1897 to emulate the brutal colonial project of Belgian King Leopold II who made Congo his own personal colony, or the German colonization of Namibia, or any of the other long-standing European (French, English, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish...) colonies around the world that brought immense wealth to the old continent by plundering the resources of the colonized countries. European Jews, as a result, saw in colonialism an opportunity to create their own colony somewhere around the globe, more as a source of wealth than to escape anti-Jewish hatred. Like their other fellow Europeans, they couldn't care less for the welfare of the native indigenous "sub-human savages" they were colonizing and whose countries they were raping for captitalist greed. In fact, the Jewish conferees at the Congress of Basel were secular, atheists, and socialists who ultimately founded the infamous Kibbutzim after erasing some 600 Palestinian ancestral villages. The impulse was not religious. It was social and economic, a sort of 19th century Jewish "me-too" capitalism that wanted its own colony. Indeed, Argentina and Uganda - not Palestine - were the first targets for establishing a Jewish homeland. It was later with the collusion of the racist supremacist British monsters who obtained a League of Nations mandate over Palestine, that the convergence of British interests and Jewish colonialism focused on Palestine, belatedly adding the bullshit argument of the "return" to the Holy Land to butress the colonial claim with a religious one.
Therefore, as they were the direct victims of European hatred and pogroms, and being ignorant (or arrogant) of the existence of other Semites, European Jews convinced themselves and others of being the only Semites around. By coining the term "Anti-semitism", they
naively or deliberately hijacked the term to present themselves as the victims of Christian European racists, when in fact, a better term would have been "Anti-Jewishism" or "Anti-Judaism". By equating a narrow Anti-Judaism with a sweeping Anti-Semitism, they monopolized what is not entirely theirs.
Buried and suffocating under a constant flood of propaganda, no one today thinks of Arabs, Africans, and others when one hears the word "Anti-semitism". The definition of the term has become restricted to hatred of Jews, when Anti-Semitism should either be broadened to comprise hatred of all Semites, like Arabs, some Africans and other Semitic peoples, or it should be abandoned and more appropriate terms like "Anti-Jewishism" "or "anti-Judaism" be used instead. The term "Anti-semitism" can no longer be used exclusively to describe the horrible treatment that Jews suffered at the hands of Christian Europeans.
Alternatively, more specific terms should be coined. For example, "Islamophobia" refers to hatred of Muslims, regardless of their national identity. But such terms as "Anti-Arabism" could be used to describe hatred of Arabs, regardless of their religion, for example.
I am a Semite and I am neither Muslim nor Christian. Religion is not part of my identity. I was raised in another of those backward monotheistic religions, which I have discarded from my life. Yet, I experienced racism in Europe and America. So technically, I cannot be a victim of Anti-Semitism because I am not a Jew, nor can I be a victim of "Islamophobia" because I am not a Muslim. Yet, I went through terrible experiences because ignorant dumb Western racists make suppositions as to my background. I should either be able to use the term "Anti-semitism" to describe my experiences (though Jews might not accept me into their prestigious and exclusive Victim Club), or linguists should establish a lexicon of specific terms to be used to describe discriminatory attitudes against every single human group. Anti-Turkism, Anti-Kazakstanism, Anti-Chinesism, Anti-Africanism, etc.
Finally, and according to a broadened and fairer definition of Anti-Semitism, Israeli Jews - who, again, are NOT genetic Semites - are themselves Anti-Semitic because of the hatred and barbarity they inflict daily on genuine Semites, namely the Palestinians. In fact, today's Palestinians are the direct descendants of the ancient Jews who, following the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD by the Romans, having stayed in Palestine (no evidence of a massive Jewish flight from Palestine has ever been discovered by Israeli scientists), became Roman Christians (Byzantine empire) for about two centuries (mid-400s to mid-600s), then became Muslims with the Arab-Muslim conquest in the 7th century. Racism is so stupid. It is always wrong when examined under a scientific lens.
For more see: [https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-genetics-of-racism.html]
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