The term "anti-Semite" was coined in Germany in 1879 by Wilhelm Marrih
to refer to the anti-Jewish manifestations of the period and to give Jew-hatred
a more scientific sounding name. "Anti-Semitism" has been accepted and
understood to mean hatred of the Jewish people. Dictionaries define the term as:
"Theory, action, or practice directed against the Jews" and "Hostility
towards Jews as a religious or racial minority group, often accompanied by social,
economic and political discrimination."
The claim that Arabs as "Semites" cannot possibly be anti-Semitic
is a semantic distortion that ignores the reality of Arab discrimination and
hostility toward Jews. Arabs, like any other people, can indeed be anti-Semitic.