(uncountable) The religion, culture and customs of the Jewish people.
(uncountable) The religion, culture and customs of Palestinians and other Arabs.
1987, Near East/South Asia Report, issue 87044, page 39:It is clear that there is an alliance between the Atlantist Americans and British directed against the Arab nation, against Islam, against Arab semitism.
2000, Alessandro Bausani, Religion in Iran: From Zoroaster to Baha'Ullah,page 131:The first, which could be termed "racist," consists in taking for granted an abstract, Arab "Semitism" which gave rise to Islam and which would have been constitutionally incapable of admitting ideas such as those of incarnation or emanation ...
(uncountable) The religion, culture and customs of adherents of Abrahamic religions.
is 1907, James Alan Montgomery, The Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect: their history, theology and literature, page 315:To this period, and as its greatest monument, we have to assign the Samaritan Targum; vernacular Semitism was again raising its head against Hellenic influence, and asserted to itself the right of translating into the vernacular the obsolete ...
2002, "Freethought110" (username), Re: Why I AM Not A Christian - Russell Group, talk.religion.bahai
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A sword to beat civilization into a crass form of desert semitism and 1400 years later a group of demented terrorists crashing planes into the World Trade Center.
2008, Carl Raschke, GloboChrist (The Church and Postmodern Culture), page 111:... their purpose in history can never be reconciled with that of Islamic Semitism.
2010, Thomas Paul Bonfiglio, Mother Tongues and Nations, page 178:In copying the Hindu traditions, Christian Semitism added whatever it wanted ...
2013, Bernard Lewis, Islam in History, page 276:... the Aryanism of Iran in generous revolt against the alien and constricting Semitism of Arabian Islam.
