Especially when you consider "semites" are a member of an ancient or modern people from southwestern Asia, such as the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, or Arabs. It can also refer to a descendant of these peoples.

So, many Palestinians are Semites as well. And one may conclude when Ovadia Yosef, a former Chief Rabbi of Israel, says:

“It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. The Lord shall return the Arab’s deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.”*

That this is "Anti-Semitic" speech as well.

It's amazing how buying off 98% of US Representatives can change a cultural and media narrative.

*https://adc.org/racist-incitement-by-israeli-leaders-must-en...

The thing is, the term "Semite" is (except in very archaic contexts) pretty much dictionary-only.

It exists, and has semantic validity. But it does not in any way describe a group that has ever had any kind of common identity. Or as Wikipedia (itself a kind of a dictionary) puts it:

    The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.

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