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by gyardley 5417 days ago
We didn't invent the term 'anti-Semitic' - I believe it was coined by a rather anti-Semitic German. We're all very aware Arabs are also Semites, but the word as it's actually used is solely about Jews, and everybody knows this.

If you can get everyone to switch to something like 'Judaeophobia', I'd personally have no objections - but sometimes you've got to work with the vocabulary that already exists.