Gog and Magog

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

It's not silly, IMHO.

You and I are Anglophones, because we speak the English language.

A Semite is anyone who speaks a Semitic language. Look up the definition.

How can anti-Semitism apply only to Jews ? How is that our "understood" definition ? I think it's because we hear it that context only, on a frequent basis.

How? Because the meaning of all words is arbitrary. There is no requirement that any logic apply. Just think of antisemitic as an idiom for 'jew hatred.' Logic about the history and relations of words can provide clues to meaning, but just clues. Meaning is not tied and can go anywhere.