Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the closure of the occupied West Bank, immediately following two Palestinian gunmen opening fire Friday on an Israeli military checkpoint, wounding at least five.

Videos from the scene depict a firefight between the Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces that lasted at least several minutes with repeated bursts of gunfire ringing out. In one Reuters video, an Israeli responder yells that the shooting has been going on for at least 20 minutes and they were struggling to remove the wounded from the scene.

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    17 days ago

    No it’s not, there are no Semitic people only Semitic languages. Antisemitism has alwats meant anti-jewish prejudice (at least until pro-apartheid fucks twisted and weaponized it to also mean criticizing Israel).

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      Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East including Akkadians, Arabs, Ammonites, Arameans, Canaanites, Edomites, Israelites, Jews, Judahites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Samaritans, and others. Use of the terminology is now largely confined to the field of linguistics in reference to "Semitic.

      I think my point stands.

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        16 days ago

        Yes, an obsolete term. The exact passage you cite says your point doesn’t stand. Nobody is prejudiced against a language family.