Posted on 01/29/2011 12:35:20 PM PST by Salvation
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Feeling of prejudice and hostility toward the Jews. The term was used in 1879 in a pamphlet attacking the Jews as descendants of the biblical Shem. On this subject the Second Vatican Council stated that the Catholic Church "deplores all hatreds, persecutions, displays of antisemitism leveled at any time or from any source against the Jews" (Decree on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, 4). (Etym. Greek anti, against + Hebrew Sh_m, son of Noe.)
Concerted and coordinated opposition, on principle, to the Roman Catholic Church. Its origins are lost in obscurity, but its modern development was one of the fruits of the Reformation. The rise of the modern secular state has intensified the conflict. The Catholic Church's insistence on operating her own schools and welfare institutions, and her uncompromising position on such issues as abortion and marital morality are logically opposed by those who disagree with the Church and have the power to enforce their views.
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Wouldn’t this use of Semite, to describe Jews, be a European misnomer, since the Jewish Semites are a small oppressed minority of the Jews, and numerically speaking practically all Semites are Arabs and Moslem? From a Semitic point of view Europeans,Americans and Jews, are anti-Semitic, because they are hostile towards the Arab Semites.
**Jews as descendants of the biblical Shem**
I was thinking that the word “semite” came from the word “Shem”
Maybe I am wrong.
The oldest son of Noah and brother of Ham and Japheth (Genesis 5:32). "From these three sons the whole earth was people," since they were the only survivors of the Flood (Genesis 9:19). Those descended from Shem--Hebrews, Arabs, Aramaeans (Genesis 10:22-31)--were called Shemites, the equivalent of the modern word Semites.
I was told by a Sephardi Jew (that’s what he called himself. I went to a public school system K-12 that was 80% comprised of Jews) that only the Sephardi’s true Semites, and they are a minority, and the “oppressed” poor Jews. That the “elite” majority Ashkenazim Jews are descendants of converts from Eastern Europe and South Western Asia.
There is no genetic evidence that Ashkenazi Jews are primarily descended from converts. Until the flood of Russians into Israel, Sefardim were probably at least half of the population of Israel.
It is true that secular Ashkenazi Jews have discriminated against Sefardim, who were more traditionally religious.
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