A reader makes a common complaint:

Not to be pedantic, but isn’t “anti-Semitic” a silly term to apply to
Arabs? Many of them are certainly anti-Israel and anti-Jewish, but to
say that they are anti-Semitic is to say that they are anti-
themselves. They’re of Semitic origin. Check your Encyclopedia
Britannica and you’ll find that the Hebrew and Arabic languages are
descended from a common parent Semitic language that “presumably
existed about the 6th-8th millennia BC and was perhaps located in the
present-day Sahara.”

This has come up in the Corner before (scroll down). The truth is that the word anti-Semitism was coined — by Wilhelm Marr – to mean Jew hatred. It has never really meant anything else. I’d be glad to get rid of the word and replace it with Judenhass (the term most widely used in Germany before “anti-Semtism”) or something similar. But it’s simply the word we have for Jew hatred.