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To: Alouette
But it has come to mean "Jew hating". Any my dictionary calls it "a person who is hostile to Jews". Does yours specify a different meaning?
6 posted on 05/04/2003 8:29:12 AM PDT by widowithfoursons
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To: widowithfoursons
sorry "and"
9 posted on 05/04/2003 8:31:26 AM PDT by widowithfoursons
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To: widowithfoursons
But it has come to mean "Jew hating". Any my dictionary calls it "a person who is hostile to Jews". Does yours specify a different meaning?

The word "Anti-Semite" was coined in 1872 by a Jew-hater named Wilhelm Marr, because the word "Jew Hater" was too...vulgar.

11 posted on 05/04/2003 8:35:13 AM PDT by Alouette (Why is it called "International Law" if only Israel and the United States are expected to keep it?)
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