Is there a word for anti-Arabic sentiment?

[treestar]

Like anti-semitism, racism, etc?

Is there a word for people who hate Arabs just because they are Arabs?

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[treestar]

3. Rampant since 911, it has no name

[LittleClarkie]

11. Taking the side of Israel means they're anti-Arab?

I thought they were anti-terrorist.

Not all Arabs are Hezbollah, or support them.

Not all Arabs are terrorists.

Hence, those who are anti-terrorist are not necessarily anti-Arab.

Why do you hate America? (;))

[CountAllVotes]

2. the word is racist

PIG

FYI.

[treestar]

5. What race are the Arabs?

I think they are Causcasian?

[jobycom]

6. Racist pig works for me. nt

[Monkeyman]

7. And your being nice I have a few won't say them here

[CountAllVotes]

8. me either !!

[newscott]

4. Anti semite

:evilgrin:

[treestar]

9. Ironic, isn't it?

And the Arabs are Caucasian, one wonders if the average American racist realizes that.

[slackmaster]

10. That was my answer too

It's the most correct one so far.

[Taxloss]

16. 'fraid not.

You're confusing two separate usages of "semitic".

[Ediacara]

22. 'fraid so

Semite and Semitic refer to both Jews and Arabs. Check this out:

"The negative form of the adjective, anti-Semitic, is almost always used as a misnomer to mean "anti-Jewish" specifically."

[Taxloss]

23. The dictionaries disagree, though. My Chambers says it

is especially used for Jews, and is less applied to other Semites; OED defines it simply as "person hostile to or prejudiced against Jews".

[porphyrian]

12. There's an idea, but you have to think it phonetically. - n/t

[Igel]

13. Anti-Arabism. n/t

[laura888]

14. Wow. I apologize to DU for all these racist...

...comments about Arabs.

:wtf:

Where does such hate come from?

[demosincebirth]

15. I think its more of an anti-muslim sentiment rather than

anti- arab.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. Agreed. There are a great many Arabs who are Christian

but you can't tell them from Arab Muslims by first looks, only by their religious practices.

[laura888]

18. Do you tthink that the U.S. or Israel cares...

...whether someone who lives in the ME is muslim or christian?

I think you're deluding yourself.

[demosincebirth]

24. You don't see Israel bombing the Christian section of Beruit, do you?

[The Magistrate]

19. No, Ma'am, There Is Not

It has not flown deep enough or long enough in the culture to have required one. It may be that word will emerge....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. The Arabs being Semites - anti-Semitic seems appropriate.

http://www.answers.com/topic/semitic

The term Semite was proposed at first to refer to the languages related to the Hebrew by Ludwig Schlözer, in Eichhorn's "Repertorium", vol. VIII (Leipzig, 1781), p. 161. Through Eichhorn the name then came into general usage (cf. his "Einleitung in das Alte Testament" (Leipzig, 1787), I, p. 45. In his "Gesch. der neuen Sprachenkunde", pt. I (Göttingen, 1807) it had already become a fixed technical term. (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII)

The word "Semitic" is an adjective derived from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), or more precisely from the Greek form of that name, namely Σημ (Sēm); the noun form referring to a person is Semite. The negative form of the adjective anti-Semitic is almost always used as a misnomer to mean "anti-Jewish," specifically.

The concept of a "Semitic" peoples is derived from Biblical accounts of the origins of the cultures known to the ancient Hebrews. Those closest to them in culture and language were generally deemed to be descended from their forefather Shem. Enemies were often said to be descendants of his cursed brother Ham. In Genesis 10:21-31 Shem is described as the father of Aram, Asshur, and others: the Biblical ancestors of the Aramaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Sabaeans, and Hebrews, etc., all of whose languages are closely related; the language family containing them was therefore named Semitic by linguists. However, the Canaanites and Amorites also spoke a language belonging to this family, and are therefore also termed Semitic in linguistics despite being described in Genesis as sons of Ham (See Sons of Noah). Shem is also described in Genesis as the father of the Elamites and the descendants of Lud, whose languages were not Semitic.

The Proto-Semitic peoples, ancestors of the Semites in the Middle East before the break-up of the hypothesized original proto-Semitic language into various modern Semitic languages, are thought to have been originally from the Arabian Peninsula. Other theories place proto-Semitic in the Ethiopian Highlands.

[readmoreoften]

21. Freeper? /nt