Confronting Anti-Semitism

VeryBig Said:
"The last I hear the Aspers were jewish"

So? Your posting in the Globe and Mail, owned by BCE, not the National Post. Is that a Jewish company too then?

See, this is what I am saying? When ever someone says the media is controlled by the Jews, he is instantly lying and it is easy to verify. Anyone with half a brain can check it. So, what is it? Do you guys think Canadians too stupid? Or perhaps you feel that your lies are too slick to be checked?

Yes Canada has free speech. Anyone in Canada can use it to tell however many lies he wants. So long as they don't promote hatred.

While it is true that Arabs maybe Semitic, the Semitic people include ancient Akkadians, Chaldeans, and Baysian dialects C 5750BCE. And any good Muslim will know by the Koran that Ishmael was born to Abraham around 1800BCE. Now check my math but that looks like 3900 years after the rise of identifiable Semites. So while Arabs are Semites, they are a branch of the Semitic lingual tree.

While there are denotations which are definitive and precise, there is a common usage of the term: semite/anti-semite that is used to slur Jewish people.
It was used in this sense in 1879 by: German journalist Wilhelm Marr in a pamphlet called, "The Victory of Germandom over Jewry". Using ideas of race and nationalism"

Since then, this idea espoused in this writing has cast a shadow and a pall on Western Civilization, for in the psyche of the West, anti-semitism refers to anti-jewish concepts.

That said, I would oppose hatred of Arabs under the umbrella of antisemitism so long as they don't mind being grouped with the Jews