Why is discrimination against different races just racism, but if it's against jews it's anti-semitism?

Genuine question, why do they get their own word for it?

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WaafaS · 26-30, F

Arabs are just as semitic as jews.

calicuz · 56-60, M

@WaafaS

Yeah, but Arabs don't run the American media or the worlds largest banks.

robb65 · 56-60, M

@WaafaS But the term was invented by Wilhelm Marr to apply to Jews and that is/was the context in which it has been used ever since. The fact that other groups of people in the mid east also speak Semitic languages is irrelevant.