>>The term "anti-semite is fully owned and copyrighted by Jews. Much effort and monies have been spent to market the connection as if it were an accurate term.<<
What's inaccurate about it? That's the term that has been used for many decades, and I doubt it had much of a "marketing budget" in its first decades of use.
You seem to have a problem with the concept that English/European words & nomenclatures often stray from their narrow etymological roots. It doesn't make the word "inaccurate."
Is a brontosaurus a dinosaur? Well, yes, but the term dinosaur is "inaccurate." It means "terrifying lizards" because early paleontologists made a mistake about how dinosaurs walked. They are not lizards at all.
The Pennsylvania Dutch aren't Dutch, and never were. They are of Swiss/German descent. ("Deutsch" in German sounded like Dutch to early settlers seeking to identify this group).
Palestinians can only refer to people from a geographic area, as there is no distinct Palestinian language, religion or culture which would differentiate them from other Arabs. Indeed, their leader, the ur-Palestinian Abu Ammar (a/k/a Arafat) is an Egyptian, born in Cairo. As are many of their leaders and spokesmen (e.g. the Egyptian Edward Said). But yet, we hear the following inaccuracy all the time--"Palestinian people." That's about as accurate as referring to "the Minnesota people" or "the New Hampshire people", and implying they are a separate ethnic group.
While we're at it, what is an "Arab"? |
