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Except semite can mean people other than the Jews, such as the Arabs.
Declaring hatred of other people is not fair.
There's what words mean; and there's how people actually use words. And those two are engaged in a constant struggle.
Rarely is that struggle so one-sided: The percentage of people who ever use "anti-Semite" to refer to one who is anti-Arab is effectively zero. The percentage who use it to mean anti-Jew is one hundred.
So, while technically it is correct to say that "Semite" can include people other than Jews, like Arabs, as a practical matter it is a suggestion that is functionally without usefulness. In actual parlance, anti-Semite = Jew hater.
That makes "anti-Semite" a misnomer. This follows my point.