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Q: Why are the Jews and the Arabs known as semitic people?
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Are Arabs and Jews both Semitic?

Yes.


What is the different between Arabs and Hebrews?

Arabs are semitic people who live in most of the countries of the Middle East. Hebrews were the ancestors of today's Jews.


Who are the Jews and Arabs?

semitic nations descended from a common father, Abraham


What terms refers to hatred of Jews?

Antisemitism is the word commonly used to describe a person or persons who have a hatred of the Jewish people. It's an inaccurate term of course as many semitic peoples are not Jews or Hebrews. Arabs are a semitic people as one example.


What is the definition for semite?

The term "Semite" refers to a member of one of the ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples, which includes Arabs, Jews, and various other ethnic groups. The concept of Semites originated from biblical genealogy, but it has been used historically to describe people who speak Semitic languages or have cultural or ancestral ties to Semitic-speaking regions.


Are Arabs Semites?

Yes. Arabs are a Semitic people. However, the use of the term "Anti-Semite" refers exclusively to Jews. There is no term for someone who hates all Middle Easterners.


Does the Vatican acknowledge that Mary and Jesus were black?

The Vatican acknowledges that Mary and Jesus were Semitic. People of semitic racial origin (Sephardic Jews and Arabs) are not black, although much darker than most Europeans.


What does the term Semite mean?

A Semite is a member of the group of Caucasoid peoples who speak a Semitic language, including the Jews and Arabs.


What Middle East countries are against Jews?

Almost all, with the exceptions of Turkey and Cyprus and a few others. It is curious to note, however, that unlike Europeans in the past who were virulently Anti-Semitic and honest about this horrible belief, many Arabs who promote Anti-Semitic policies or slander Jews do not believe that they are Anti-Semitic because in their minds there is no possibility of a Moslem being Anti-Semitic.


Are jews considered asian?

Jews are native to Western Asia. Modern Jews, however, do not acknowledge their heritage as Arabs and claim to be White.Jewish answer:The above anonymous answer contradicts itself, since Western Asia has as its native groups not only Arabs. We Jews are indeed natives of Western Asia, as DNA tests have shown; and we have never concealed or denied that fact. Jews and Arabs are related and are both Semitic, and neither group claims to have had its origin in Europe or as Caucasians.


How are people from Israel called?

Israeli is the common term. However, I know Israeli Arabs who would prefer to be called Palestinians, and before 1948, Jews from the region now known as Israel were known as Palestinian Jews.


What is the difference between Semitic and Arabic Tribes?

Arabs are just one group of Semites. They have effectively replaced almost all other groups of Semites, but there do remain Assyrians, Babylonians, Chaldeans, Maronites, Jews, and other Semitic groups.