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In 1967 that would change, both coming under Israeli control/occupation.
there a whole inset panel for israel, and not a single mention of palestine.
Here's a reminder of what the word 'Semitic' means:
"Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Arabs, Arameans, Canaanites (Ammonites, Edomites, Israelites, Moabites, Phoenicians, and Philistines) and Habesha peoples"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Origin_and_usage
At the time it had no connection with Zionism
Because the word now circulates without that historical packaging, many people take "Jew" to be a racial category and imagine Jews, not Arabs, Assyrians, or other Semitic language communities, to be the only Semitic group, an assumption that reproduces the very Nazi racial taxonomy the term originally served
Its very design, framing Jews alone as the quintessentially "Semitic" target, censors every attempt to talk about the Middle East, because it buries the shared Semitic matrix (Arab, Assyrian, Hebrew, Aramaic, etc.) under a racialized badge that only sticks to one side
Once the vocabulary itself encodes a single victim story, any mention of parallel or overlapping suffering sounds like denial instead of description, and the conversation stalls before facts can even be named
As these racial categories are all pseudo-science anyway, their only meaning is the meaning attributed to them by the racists. So you can only complain to 19th century Europeans for not being as racist towards Arabs