Antisemitism should apply to 400 million Semites

July 25, 2025

This is up to Robert's usual high standard, but even it never mentions the other 400 million semites and their rights. The cleverly constructed identification of antisemitism with only antijewism for over one hundred years enables us all to sympathise with only a tiny proportion of Semites, who are daily slaughtering many of the other Semites. This is no small matter as those other Semites, all 400 million of them, are the principal targets of the Jewish state. We in the West are prone to adopt simplistic notions that suit our prejudices and often use them to shape our view of the world. Such is the adoption of the word antisemitism to relate only to Jews, as a means of dealing with our Western guilt for ignoring their fate under the Holocaust. As a Semite is any person that has as their native language, a Semitic language. That includes Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew amongst a small number of others. The principal victims from 1947 to the present of Israeli violence and ethnic cleansing are the Semitic Arabs whose homeland for more then 14,000 years has been Palestine.