• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      He’s playing a semantic game because Palestinians fall under the description of ‘semite’ despite the fact that, in the basic vernacular, ‘antisemite’ means someone who hates Jews. They know this, you know this, I know this. But they want to play a little game.

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      He’s pretending that he doesn’t know that “antisemitic” is a word that has been used exclusively to mean anti-Jewish for … What 50 years? More?