Anti-semitic, anti-immigrant

[Katha Pollitt]

I believe "Philistine" as a pejorative comes from Matthew Arnold, not
the bible or Jewish tradition.  Arnold used it to mean a bourgeois
person who is uncultured and happy to be so. It is not an ethnic slur
that would be addressed to a Palestinian person, as "n-word" would be
addressed to a black person, of  "kike" to a Jew. 

Katha