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9 months agoGenuine question (and I don’t know if you’ve gone down this rabbit hole) but does “el” in the context of Hebrew names refer to the concept of any god generically or was “el” the name of the one monotheistic god (before being combined with the monotheistic god with the other name) and the “els” in the names of the angels meant to be an attachment to the court of the one god in a similar way to “isra-el” being not another god but a kingdom/people bearing the name of the god it served (of course talking about biblical Israel and not the modern state).
“Semetic” is already a pseudo-scientific term. It refers to the descendants of one of the sons of Noah (Shem), which is a mythic rather that historic origin. It has always meant anti-Jew specifically.
All that said, I still agree with you that Benjamin Netanyahu is among the most antisemitic people alive right now.