This is a good point. If you are voting to make a political point you would probably go all in - if voting just coz you liked the song you would hardly be so committed as to vote multiple times.You can vote 20 times per device in the Eurovision..
It's also incorrect in modern English to use it as an alternative word for Jewish/Israeli people, so doubly wrong.I think it is anti-Semitic to call people Semites.
Evidence please. If you can find any then can someone change the thread title to "Taoiseach is anti-Jewish" or "Taoiseach is anti-Israeli"?I think it is anti-Semitic to call people Semites.
Authority please.It's also incorrect in modern English to use it as an alternative word for Jewish/Israeli people, so doubly wrong.
Strictly speaking a Semite is a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs. The Palestinians, given that they have for the most part lived in the region for most of the last thousand years (though mostly not in the area they define as Palestine) are genetically more Semitic than the Jews, or, to put it another way, genetically more Jewish than the Jews.Evidence please.
It's also incorrect in modern English to use it as an alternative word for Jewish/Israeli people, so doubly wrong.
In Modern usage the word Semite is often used to describe a Jew but less than half of the global population of Jews live in Israel. Therefore by any measure it is incorrect to refer to Israelis as Semites.Authority please.
Therefore Semite is the more inclusive term as it includes Jews who live outside Israel and Gentiles who live in Israel.but less than half of the global population of Jews live in Israel. Therefore by any measure it is incorrect to refer to Israelis as Semites.
Okay, but in that case your comment that conflated Semite with Israeli is even more inaccurate.Therefore Semite is the more inclusive term as it includes Jews who live outside Israel and Gentiles who live in Israel.
.I tuned in to see the last of the voting and was horrified to see the Semites in the lead before the final vote for Austria
Maybe it was that but most likely it was the international Zionist/lizard people conspiracy. Obviously it must have been funded by George Soros as (insert racist trope about Jews) wouldn't pay for it themselves.Or perhaps many simply voted in sympathy with, and support for a young woman who survived a deadly attack on young people enjoying a music festival.
(There were some major tantrums being thrown on social media yesterday. I hope RTE offered plenty of "safe spaces" for the traumatized NUJ branch members.)
*Lights blue touch paper and stands well back...
The fact that it is totally avoidable and is the result of the policy of a rich developed country with very well developed civil infrastructure makes it all the more appalling. Israel could be using that infrastructure to feed people but instead is using it to starve them.UN representative voiced concerns on news broadcasts tonight that 14,000 infants in Gaza could starve to death unless they get appropriate food in the next 48 hours, potentially one of the greatest [EDIT] acts of infanticide in modern times.
It's getting close to being as bad as what China is doing to it's Uyghur Muslim population in scale (2 million Uyghurs in concentration camps with an estimated 10-15% death rate each year), though not close to it in terms of the overall death toll, forced marriage, forced sterilisation, forced abortions, slavery and Genocide faced by the Uyghurs.
“Free Palestine’ is just today’s version of ‘Heil Hitler,’” Netanyahu said.
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