Mr_Canada wrote:
PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:
I know in Canada the problem is definitely political correctness and the very loose definition of racism these days. Muslim isn't a race so that card is just the most ridiculous one that gets used.
Well, Jews aren't a race either. Yet, if I claim that Israel is on Palestinian land, I'm called a racist (or Anti-Semite, etc)
It's not just one way, you know.
Well first of all, I do agree with you. Secondly, anyone that called you an anti-semite for saying that is an idiot. Palestinians are semites too. Actually, most Arabs come from a semetic background.
A Semite is someone descended from Sem or Shem, the eldest son of Noah.
A HEBREW is someone descended from Heber (or, "Eber"), one of the great-grandsons of Shem. So all Hebrews are Semites, but not all Semites are Hebrews. (Both Sunnite Arabs and Jews are Semites, and Hebrews, as well as Jews.)
Six generations after Heber, Abraham was born to his line, so Abraham was both a Hebrew and a Semite, born of the line of Heber and Shem.
Ishmael was born of Abraham, and (Sunnite) Arabs (and specifically Muslims) consider themselves to be descendants of him, so they are both Semitic and Hebrews. Isaac was born of Abraham, then Jacob of Isaac. Jacob's name was changed to "Israel," and he fathered 12 sons. His sons and their descendants are called Israelites, and they would therefore be both Semitic and Hebrew. However, this would not make either Abraham or Isaac "Israelites." Those who poorly use the words "Jew" and Israelite, call Abraham a Jew, even though Abraham was not even an Israelite, and where the word "Jew" is not used in the Bible until 1,000 years AFTER Abraham