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There is a good saying that Palestinians are like a rag for the rest of the Arab world: when they need to clean their shoes with it, they use it and are happy that they have it and then they throw it away and forget about it.
Unfortunately, this is not the case only with Arabs…
You can check meaning of antisemitism in the Oxford’s dictionary. It’s been adapted to the Jewish population despite the fact Palestinians are also semites.
Basically it sometimes happens that the meaning of a word is adjusted based on how people use it. This can lead to some etymological inaccuracies.