Are Jordanians, Arabs, etc considered "Semites"?

Question

I know the Jewish people are Semitic, but I was wondering about their Arab siblings?

Answer 1

Yes they are

Even the language got hundreds of common word if not thousands.

Answer 2

The word "Arab" derives from the Semitic word "to mix". The Hebrew word "aravim" means both "evenings" and "Arabs". The Hebrews derived from the area which is now Iraq and are referred to as North Semitic, while the Arabs derived from Saudi Arabia and are referred to as South Semitic. The Hebrews were much more similar to the ORIGINAL inhabitants of Jordan (Ammon, Moab, and Edom) and Lebanon (Zur and Zidon known as Phoenicia) than to the Arabs of Saudi Arabia, and the Jews are genetically related to the present-day Kurds.

Answer 3

Jews and Arabs are considered semitic but Arabs from Arabia (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman etc.) are the only purely semitic people in the middle east

Answer 4

Semites are Arabs and Jews.

Answer 5

The fact is that "Semitic" refers to languages and not people.

The most common use of the word is with regard to anti-Semtism, whiuch refers only to hatred of Jews.

But there is great confusion over the meaning of anti-Semitism, so I will explain the meaning of the term.

Although Arabs themselves frequently speak of "anti-Semitism" as synonymous with anti-Jewishness -- before the 1947 partition, for example, Egyptian UN Representative Haykal Pasha warned the General Assembly that partition would bring "anti-Semitism" worse than Hitler's -- frequently they justify or obscure an anti-Jewish action by saying, "How can I be anti-Semitic? I'm a Semite myself."

According to Professor S. D.  Goitein, "the word 'Semitic' was coined by an l8th-century German scholar, concerned with linguistics.

"The idea of a Semitic race was invented and cultivated in particular in order to emphasize the inalterable otherness and alien character of the Jews living in Europe."

Another eminent Arabist, Bernard Lewis, dates the invention of the term "anti-Semitism" to 1862, although "the racial ideology that gave rise to it was already well established in the early 19th century.  Instead of -- or as well as -- an unbeliever ...  the Jew was now labeled as a member of an alien and inferior race...  "

As early as 1940 the Mufti of Jerusalem requested the Axis powers to acknowledge the Arab right "to settle the question of Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries in accordance with the national and racial interests of the Arabs and along lines similar to those used to solve the Jewish question in Germany and Italy."

For a discussion of Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine, see  "The Myth of Palestinian Nationalism."

Hitler's crimes against the Jews have frequently been justified in Arab writings and pronouncements.  In the 1950s, Minister Anwar Sadat published an open letter to Hitler, hoping he was still alive and sympathizing with his cause.  Important Arab writers and political figures have said Hitler was "wronged and slandered, for he did no more to the Jews than Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, the Romans, the Byzantines, Titus, Muhammad and the European peoples who slaughtered the Jews before him." Or that Hitler wanted to "save ...  the world from this malignant evil..."

Arab defense of the n***s' extermination of the Jews has persisted: prominent Egyptian writer Anis Mansour wrote in 1973 that "People all over the world have come to realize that Hitler was right, since Jews .  .  .  are bloodsuckers .  .  .  interested in destroying the whole world which has .  .  .  expelled them and despised them for centuries ...  and burnt them in Hitler's crematoria ...  one million ...  six millions.  Would that he had finished it!"

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Answer 6

B is correct, except for one thing; there are still Hebrews left alive today, that the ashkenazi are the only Jews with Hebrew ancestry is an outright malicious lie that I think has to stop.

If it doesn't stop, then someone has to make it stop.

Answer 7

Canaanise (The oldest tribe known in middle east) were Arabic spoken tribes and Canaan means low land in Arabic!

Arabs are in Middle east way before the Jews

Answer 8

Are Egyptians Arab or Semetic?  They have Arabic as well as Egyptian.

When Ishmail and Haggai  made it south and started their progeny, whom did they find there?  Arabs?  I don't think so.

Muslim like to trace their heritage back to Abraham through Ishmail.  If so it had to come through Shem and one of his three son.  I think many pass through Ham.

So how are you going to tell?

Answer 9

Semites are peoples who speak Semitic languages; the group includes Arabs, Aramaeans, Jews, and many Ethiopians. In a Biblical sense, Semites are peoples whose ancestry can be traced back to Shem, Noah's eldest son. The ancient Semitic populations were pastoral Nomads who several centuries before the Christian Era were migrating in large numbers from Arabia to Mesopotamia, the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, and the Nile River delta. Jews and other Semites settled in villages in Judea, southern Palestine.

Present day speakers of Semitic languages are as diverse in physical, psychological, cultural, and sociological characteristics as are speakers of Indo European languages. The most prominent Semites today are Arabs and Jews. They are different in many ways, and they have absorbed a variety of European traits through centuries of migration and trade. The origin of Semitic languages, however, and many similarities in the stories of Islam and Judaism reflect a common ancient history.

Answer 10

yes, we are from Shem,