Brad DeLong ^^^^^^^^
CB: It would be better termed "anti-Jewish" as many of Israel's opponent peoples in the current conflict are Semites themselves.
Anti-semitism is European racism/prejudice against Jews, based on the centuries of European oppression and domination of Jews.
In the current conflct between Jews and the several Arab and Islamic peoples, the term "anti-semitism" in this historical sense is completely inapposite. Israel , a Jewish nation, is an imperial or subimperial power specifically oppressing the Palestinian people. In that relationship Israel stands as oppressor, not oppressed as in Europe, reversing the long term role in relation to Christian Europeans. The antagonism of Arabs to Jews todays is not the prejudice of an oppressor against its oppressed victims , but the largely reverse, the resentment of the oppressed against one of its oppressors.
The connotation of "anti-Semitism" from the European historical context does not fit in Southwest and South central Asia.