`    well, Im juggling tasks right now, so briefly: RK, Danny, SLRub... but mostly RK... who outright makes a horses ass of himself on a regular basis. Im curious how you all felt when you read that semitism is in the MW dictionary? Keep that feeling in mind, when you decide to assume things. As for meaning and use... what about Philo-Semitism? there we have two terms, which include the word semitism... one of them being the inverse of... (which RK and others have previously stated that its use applies to Jews only. )    I dont have a word for RK - he repeatedly calls me an ``anti-Semite``, and he no would doubt be an embarrassment to his particular ethnicity, if most of his people were'nt smart enough to attribute his stupidity to him alone.    By the logic of SG, above - that it would ``aready be covered``, ( and therefore its in need of censoring ) - this would mean that anti-Semitism itself is ``already covered`` under the heading of racism. ( Racism> Anti-aryanism,anti-Semitism, anti-nihonwenism, anti-Asianism, anti-Africanism etc...)  Note, that of the above ``categories`` - only three stand out as being vague or indistinct - a-aryan (what is ``white``) anti-semitism (what is``semitism`` again) and ``anti-nihonwenism`` - ``anti-Japanesism`` (is this really a phenomenon?)   you all raise interesting points. And most of you seem to be of Jewish decent. Im I to make some inference from this? How is it that RK is gallant and unrestrained in editing article after article, Is-Pal conf, islamism, al-qaeda, terrorism, ad inf.... none of these things are about Judaism. Theyre about Arabs. How do rabid racist like RK, and the passive racists like some who unwittingly support him propose to make indiscriminate and unhindered comment on Arab issues, disguised as NPOV? At the same time, proclaiming defense of this term, - for which he says ``it doesnt even exist`` - I would have loved to see his face when he came across the MW and AH dictionaries.  What am I to say to all of this? Can there be any argument that there is no ``Semitist`` bias? Amer Heritage Dic defines it as  :SYLLABICATION: Sem·i·tism  :PRONUNCIATION:   sm-tzm  :NOUN: 1. A Semitic word or idiom. 2. Semitic traits, attributes, or customs. 3. A policy or predisposition in favor of Jews.  Semitism (Page: 1309) Sem``i*tism (?), n. A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin. [Written also [[Shemitism]   Now, give me credit for writing, in extremely short time, a decent stub. It even avoids the simplistic definition of predisposition - (preference).  Its unfortunate that we here at en.wikipedia dont have adequate Arab representation. This doesnt mean that we let people like RK jump over everything that cuts through his crap. He scatters inuendo, and anti-Arab propaganda around, and I - ethnically ``Irish-American Catholic``, am among a few to dispute his crap. Please Dan, SL, dont let this be a fight of SV against ``all Jews everywhere`` or (more ttp) of SV vs RK......  time is too precious, and Im weary of arguing with the fool, and such foolishness its often bound to me seen as mine. Murphy's Law, of course. Be well, Without any objective objections, Im restoring the article later, when I have time.   Hi, Stevert. I guess I will give the first response to you. Obviously, this should not be seen as a fight between ``you or anyone else and all Jews everywhere.`` I will, however, disagree with some of what you say, which I think you will agree is legitimate. Our goal should not be to score points against each other's beliefs, but to come to some common consensus about what is NPOV and report on it accordingly. By the way, you are also right in assuming that I am socially and culturally JewishI'm not too keen on any definition of ethnicity that fits my particular circumstances (long story ...). I am also professionally Jewish, working at a Jewish museum developing curricula and actually dealing with a lot of these issues in a professional capacity. While I am the first to admit that my education, focusing on Judaic studies, may prejudice some of what I write, so will the facts that I am also a staunch agnostic (I think God is too irrelevant to address the issue of its existence), a socialist, and the holder of three passports (American, Canadian, and Israeli). Before you jump to any conclusions, I also define myself as a disillusioned Zionist and currently a ``cultural autonomist`` (I believe in the preservation of a Jewish cultural identity in the Diaspora).   Why am I saying all of this? To give you some idea of the complexity of defining one's self as Jewish. There are too many interpretations and shades of interpretations within Jewish life to define Jewish identity as a homogeneous unit. There have always been f