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Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.

Russian news reports said the crowd surrounded the airliner, which belonged to Russian carrier Red Wings.

Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.

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[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why should other Semitic people be excluded from the definition? It removes a way to identify prejudice against those other Semitic groups.

[–] jasory@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because anti-Semitism has a German origin and has been used primarily in the West to refer to discrimination against Jewish people.

The fact that it doesn't cover anti-Iraqi or Palestinian sentiment, does not mean that you can't identify them, which you are so bizarrely claiming.

[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I said it “removes a way” to do that. Not that it removes any ability to. Try to represent peoples arguments factually next time please.

Even though double speak removed the idea of the word “bad”, they could still try to express the same idea with “ungood” after all. Language shapes how we view the world because it’s how we share our experiences.

[–] jasory@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Nope, just like George Orwell you are asserting an unsupported form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

"Doublespeak" doesn't fundamentally change how people think, it is just deception by obfuscation.

The fact that the word anti-Semitism doesn't include anti-Arab sentiments is not the cause of why anti-Arab sentiments are not as criticised. The Holocaust is why anti-Semitism (the concept and by extension the word) holds a place of special concern. (And Islamic terrorist incidents are why anti-Arab sentiments are more accepted).

[–] glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm not saying it necessarily should be that way, but that's just how the word has been used historically and in the present. Antisemitism has been different from other forms of racism because it is hatred that is often based on conspiracy theories about Jews. Discrimination against Arabs would usually fall under islamophobia (even though not all Arabs are Muslim), or other words like anti-arabism or anti-arab sentiment.