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Biden administration unveils new actions to combat antisemitism on college campuses (www.nbcnews.com)

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They conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism & anti-crimes against humanity in order to trample on people’s first amendment rights to speech & assembly.

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[–] MiddleKnight@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that using the term "Semite" in any other context than the modern interpretation of "antisemitic", meaining prejudice against Jews, stopped being a thing roughly around the same time that we stopped treating the bible as an authority on the classification of human races. Same with Hamites and Japhetites.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Semitic languages" are a language family that includes Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and Amharic.

However the notion of a "Semitic race" is pseudoscience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages