Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

I have admitted I know little about the mideast, and I am not trying to rile anyone up, but I am not understanding the use of "anti-semitic" in many of the posts. According to google, both the jews and the palestinians are semitic, so I have a hard time discerning who someone is mad at. Do people normally mean anti-semitic when they refer to Judaism, but not palestinians? The info says that they are primarily distinguished as a language group, but both Hebrew and Arabic languages are listed as semitic? (honest question, as I am trying to figure out who is mad at who in some of the articles)

Who are the Semitic people today?
These common features comprise the identifying marks of the Semitic *languages, and in current usage the peoples speaking these languages are called Semitic – today mainly the Jews (Hebrew) and Arabs, but in ancient times the Akkadians, the Amorites, the Babylonians, the Phoenicians, and the Canaanites as well.