You're like.. .you know... wrong. I mean so wrong.
Semitic comes from Sem -> the son of Noah. And he was designated to repopulate the "middle of the earth" making all jews, arabs and other middle eastern people -> semites. normally this would include the indians in india and the vietnamese too. But w/e, back then people didn't know the world was that large. Ham was designated to repopulate the south -> so all africans are hamites. And Jaspeth or smth like that the north -> europeans and chinesse and siberians and all that are "jaspetians?" or however that works. Now since most arabs are muslims and don't give a hoot, they don't call themselves semites. since Europeans are traditionally christian, we don't care about the whole jaspeth thing since God loves all and doesn't massacre at random anymore, the Christian God is civilized. And the indians and the chinesse don't care either because lo and behold, they follow other religions.
So while yes, arabs are semites by torah standards, they're not semites because they don't see themselves as such. Which is why that designation remains purely for jewish people by their own choice and by the fortunes of history.
I see you quote haartz, don't. It's a ****ty newspaper for remtards on free dinners.
Jews aren't a nation. If jews were a nation, that means that if you're a jew in america or in sweden or in israel, you're part of the same nation. And that's not true. Only jews in Israel are part of the nation of Israel. So Israelite is a nationality, jew is not. Jews are foremost an ethnic group -> your mother needs to be jewish for you to inherit the jewishness. Again, that's their saying, not mine. They identify jewish as such. And with reformed judaism you don't need to practice judaism to be a jew. Which is why a non-religious jew can marry a religious jew no problem. It is why a non-religious jew is still a jew. Again. it's like I said. (ethnicity)Polish (religion)catholic -> take away catholic, he's still polish.
SO this:
Is true. They are racists.