An Arab-American group is urging Merriam-Webster to revise its dictionary definition of anti- Semitism. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee called on the publishers to repudiate its “false and damaging” explanation of anti-Semitism, including one definition as “opposition to Zionism: sympathy with opponents of the State of Israel,” the Washington Post reported.
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