2007-01-24 11:10:12 · 13 answers · asked by thetruthteller 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
You don't know what the term means. "Semitic" has NOTHING to do with Israel or jews.
The term "anti-Semitic" is used by Jews and Jewish sympathizers as a derogatory term to describe anyone who does not agree with them. By implication they would have you believe it is somehow wrong to be "anti-Semitic", according to their wrong and erroneous usage of the word. If you were to take a position against the policies of Israel you can bet you would be branded an "anti-Semite", wrong use of word. By their twisted and misguided logic, they think everyone has to go along with their thinking and approve of their action and if anyone does not then there is something criinally wrong with that person.
By this definition, I am about as "anti-Semitic" and as anti-Israel as you can get and I do not think there is anything wrong in taking that position. However, this IS NOT the meaning of the term "anti-semitic", which has nothing to do with jews and nothing to do with Israel. The jews have wrongly usurped the word to mean hate or defamation directed against them, as if they think they are all that important...HAH! Semitic is a word that was originally coined in the late 1800s by a German scholar to define a grouping of Middle Eastern languages that shared certain linguistic similarities. The word has NO meaning at all in reference to anything specifically Israel or jewish, none whatsoever.
Properly used then, the term "anti-semitic" means to be against this particular family of languages, which includes Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. So if you are anti-semitic it means you are against these languages, which seems a rather silly and stupid notion to me..
2007-01-26 13:30:02 · answer #1 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not anti-semitic...so why am I answering this question? Because I personally never cease to be amazed how many ignorant bigots actually are hanging out on Y!Answers.
I have a question for anyone who would naturally choose to dislike someone on the basis of their skin/ethnicity/culture. WHAT IF? What if YOU had been born into that culture. What if YOU were born in poverty in rural Missisipi. What if YOU were born into a family that had to experience hatred and bigotry solely because of their blood?
Just because of who you were born as does not make you any better or any worse than anyone else. What you do with it is how you should be judged as an individual. Judge people as INDIVIDUALS! Do not assume that all people of a race are a certain way...and saying that there is a higher prevelance of rotten people in any particular race is a stupid rotten lie. I believe that the laziest people I know are Anglo-Americans...also the most treacherous...and the stupidest. But no race should be put down because of problem individuals.
All we need is a little more understanding...=)
2007-01-24 20:40:56 · answer #2 · answered by medicina3mundo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not anti-semitic! I love Jewish people! I happen to be Black! (You probably hate me more but I don't care about that either!) I am however anti-hate, anti-ignorance, anti-nazi, and chosen just for you anti-stupidity! Not at all Anti-Semitic! I'm not even Anti-Similac!
2007-01-24 19:21:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm pro-Israel, as they are God's chosen people and the folks who will be fulfilling prophecy in a few years. I am opposed to their cousins, the Edomites (a.k.a., Philistine/Palestinian) who have used a lying religion as an excuse to attack them without reason.
So, uh, which "Semite" did you mean?
2007-01-24 19:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. There is no reason I should be. Don't get me wrong I do have my prejudices and am highly biggoted with regard to them. Anti-Semitism just isn't one of them.
2007-01-24 19:18:09 · answer #5 · answered by kveldulf_gondlir 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am not. I went to elementary school with almost all Jewish classmates, and teachers. Those were the people I knew for six hours a day for six years.
2007-01-24 19:24:48 · answer #6 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No but liberals are. They just change the word 'Jew' and replace it with 'zionist' and then say the same thing that the nazi's did.
2007-01-24 19:33:01 · answer #7 · answered by c_macneal 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope...4 very close family friends are Jewish.
People are people.
2007-01-24 19:13:52 · answer #8 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm not. I'm anti-zionist. They're not the same. Jews are fine, but the modern country of Israel is a terrorist state.
2007-01-24 19:14:20 · answer #9 · answered by Dim 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I think the question is why are you? You're an idiot..
2007-01-24 19:13:41 · answer #10 · answered by Holy Macaroni! 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋