Why is it called "anti-semitism?"?

Antisemitism means hatred of Jews. Jews did not coin the word. There is no accounting for the logic of bigots.

Jew haters in the 19th century coined the word to coincide with their new fangled pseudoscientific notions of "race" and "racial superiority" to promote colonialism and to declare that certain groups were superior to others.

Hebrew, the language of Torah and Jewish liturgy and the "mother tongue" is a Semitic language.

Jews make up only a very small portion of the different peoples ( both ancient and modern) that linguists describe as Semitic language speaking peoples. Technically Semitic should only refer to a common shared language base, but credit 19th century pseudoscientific Jew hating philosophers for creating the term antisemitic to mean hatred of Jews.

There isn't any accounting for the logic of Jew haters. They were proud of their term

Semitic doesn't have anything to do with Islam, Christianity or Judaism.

Jews were the targets of hatred for being Jews long before Jew haters coined the term.

The notion of Jews as "Semites" isn't a Jewish one.

Semite refers to a language base. Jews originated among the Semitic language peoples, then spread throughout the world. The notion of Jews or any other people as "Semites" began in the early 19th century among among some of the 'philosophers" of Europe, particularly French and German who were developing pseudo-scientific concepts of race. One famous speaker in particular was highly influential in spreading this toxic notion. He did not confine his racism to Jews, but his particular form of Jew hate spread to influence millions in successive generations. Ernest Renan, who lived from 1823-1892 and was from Brittany is credited with popularizing this false notion. Renan has been criticized for antisemitism because of his comments on the alleged limitations of the Semitic mentality. Renan claimed that the Semitic mind was limited by dogmatism and lacked a cosmopolitan conception of civilisation. For Renan, Semites were "an incomplete race". Ernest Renan lectured across Europe with ideas about how "Semitic races" were inferior to "Aryan races." He included the other Semitic language based peoples in this inferiority, but a very short time later as you can see the term "semite" was being used to refer to the "inferior Jews". These pseudo-scientific theories concerning race, civilization, and "progress" had become quite widespread in Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Others, especially Prussian nationalistic historian Heinrich von Treitschke actively promoted this form of bigotry. In Treitschke's writings Semitic was synonymous with Jewish. Soon after, Wilhelm Marr is credited with the popularizing the use of the word “antisemitism” to denote hatred of the “Jewish race”.In 1879, Wilhelm Marr founded the Antisemiten-Liga (Antisemitic League). While the Nazis promoted the false notion that Jews are a race, Hitler did not create it, but used it.. Jews are a nation people, Israel (tribal origin) bound by an eternal covenant of the faith (religion) of Judaism.

Isn't it funny that now Jews are even BLAMED for the irrational term that Jew haters coined to specifically refer to their hatred of Jews that they were so proud to have created they even made a LEAGUE to join. However, it was coined by non Jewish European "philosophers" and in the Oxford dictionary it still means what they created it to mean, "hatred of Jews; unfair treatment of Jews"

As I said, there is no accounting for the logic or lack thereof when it comes to bigotry.

It's irrational. the definition of SEMITIC refers to language groupings and logically antisemitic should have meant against those languages ( a strange thing to be against, but then so is Jew hate). Jews make up only a very small portion of the different peoples ( both ancient and modern) that linguists describe as Semitic language speaking peoples. Technically Semitic should only refer to a common shared language base, but the world must credit 19th century pseudoscientific Jew hating philosophers for creating the term antisemitic to mean hatred of Jews.

Despite the illogical fairly new libel that Jews created the word to somehow use to our benefit ( very strange charge indeed) Jews didn't coin/create the word antisemitic.

Pineapples aren't apples on pine trees. Butterflies aren't insects made of butter.

Language isn't always logical, either

Modern antisemitism has as its roots, the replacement theologies that demonize Jews for refusal to abandon our eternal covenant for what they've offered.

Past answers that are also helpful to clear up your confusion/misunderstanding

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201108...

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201...

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201...

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201211... a song here is also useful to help

Okay, I'm going to take a moment to explain why this idea of the first semites being black is so ridiculous.

It is very easy to trace the relationships between different cultures by the words they "trade." The semetic languages would have left many words in African languages OR African languages would have left many words in semetic languages had the first semites been black.

The clear truth is African languages and semetic languages have nothing in common except in areas where the influence of Islam has brought in words from Arabic, not Hebrew.

Take time from playing video games and watching porn to do a bit of reading in honest history rather than silly nonsense put out as idiot bait.

The meaning of a word does not necessarily come from the meanings of its roots.

Butterflies are not aviated breakfast spreads.

Pineapples are not red and do not grow on pine trees.

Streamlined does not mean surrounded by babbling brooks.

And anti-Semitic does not mean being opposed to Semitic peoples. It means bigotry against Jews.

I think you're hallucinating.