I thank you for all the explanations, I simply don't agree with you, you can follow others and the so called experts as much as you like, I have my own interpretation, I am not trying to convince you of anything. You should also note my previous posts on some of the experts. People have been hating Jews a very long time, long before those people put those thoughts in to paper, perhaps they were racist trying to show the world a difference, I don't know and care even less.Caernarfon_Claret wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 4:22 pmAntisemitism was a term first used in 1800s in response to a form of racism that emerged that deliberately attacked the "Semitic" race (in this case referring to Jews only and not to other descendants of Shem, such as certain Bedouin tribes).
As Wikipedia says:
The root word Semite gives the false impression that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic people, e.g., including Arabs, Assyrians and Arameans. The compound word Antisemitismus ("antisemitism") was first used in print in Germany in 1879[6] as a scientific-sounding term for Judenhass ("Jew-hatred"),[7][8][9][10][11][12] and this has been its common use since then.[13][7][14]
Also worth reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
The origin of "antisemitic" terminologies is found in the responses of Moritz Steinschneider to the views of Ernest Renan. As Alex Bein writes: "The compound anti-Semitism appears to have been used first by Steinschneider, who challenged Renan on account of his 'anti-Semitic prejudices' [i.e., his derogation of the "Semites" as a race]."[15] Avner Falk similarly writes: "The German word antisemitisch was first used in 1860 by the Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907) in the phrase antisemitische Vorurteile (antisemitic prejudices). Steinschneider used this phrase to characterise the French philosopher Ernest Renan's false ideas about how 'Semitic races' were inferior to 'Aryan races'".[16]
So yes antisemitism is racism.
The bottom line is it's always down to differences and from that comes a hatred and I believe we can all agree that regardless of terminology it is hatred that we should be calling out when it is derogatory to groups of people.