ADL Now Swamped By ‘Arabs Are Semitic So They Can’t Be Anti-Semitic’ Comments

New York, May 15 – In the wake of a global survey measuring the prevalence of antisemitism in various countries and regions, the Anti-Defamation League faces a deluge of nitwits questioning the report’s conclusion based on an erroneous understanding of basic terminology.

The study found the Arab world rife with antisemitism, with Arab countries averaging a 74% prevalence of the sentiment across the Middle East and North Africa. But since Arabic is described by linguists as a Semitic language, ignorant individuals are demanding to know how the ADL can assert that Semitic peoples are themselves so antisemitic. In thus challenging the data, those individuals betray their lack of knowledge of the term, making themselves appear even stupider than they otherwise would.

The term “antisemitism” itself was coined by a nineteenth-century German writer specifically looking for a less vulgar term than “Jew-hatred” in order to make the notion more acceptable in polite company. In the more than a century since, the term has gained mainstream currency, except among complete dimwits who confuse a linguistic term for an ethnic one. The ADL now finds itself the target of a barrage of complaints and rebuttals, all stemming from, or relying on, such dimwittery.

“How can u call arabs antisemites they r semites,” wrote one person whose head apparently has feces where brains should be. Another seconded the challenge, offering that “lol u think semites hate themselves #fail” in response to the ADL’s Twitter announcement of the report release on its website, betraying a double lack of intelligence.

The ADL so far remains at a loss to respond properly to the flood of asininity. “It’s not just people’s ignorance of the term that’s on display here,” says the League’s director, Abraham Foxman. “Even if it were true that Arabs are ‘Semites,’ whatever the hell that might mean, what idiot thinks it’s ontologically impossible for someone to hate his own ethnicity?” Foxman confessed that he is almost as disturbed by the thickheadedness of the people reacting as he is by the data on Jew-hatred.

He suggested that the government might consider amending the law on voting eligibility, restricting it to people above a certain intelligence, but then realized that might be considered a bigoted statement by those with low intelligence.