Arabs are Semites and Arabic is a Semitic language and hence
Islamophobia is antisemitism by definition! In linguistics and
ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical “Shem“, Hebrew: שם,
translated as “name”, Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to
a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called
the Semitic languages. This family includes the ancient and
modern forms of Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Ge’ez,
Hebrew, Maltese, Phoenician, Tigre and Tigrinya among others.
The term Semite means a member of any of various ancient and
modern Semitic-speaking peoples originating in southwestern
Asia, including Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews,
Arabs, and Ethiopian Semites. It was proposed at first to refer
to the languages related to 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).
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