Anti-Semitism In Biritannia
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It would be advisable to learn the proper use of the word Semitic, before we start talking about Anti-Semitism; it pertains to the languages! If we ask Britannica, we get: “languages that form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) language phylum. Members of the Semitic group are spread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia and have played preeminent roles in the linguistic and cultural landscape of the Middle East for more than 4,000 years”, which means: Sumerian, Amorite, Ugaritic, Canaanite,Phoenician,Aramaic, Syriac ,Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Maltese, etc.
The term Semite, again according to Britannica, means “Person speaking one of a group of related languages, presumably derived from a common language,