Original sentence: From the 17th century on this term was most commonly used to refer to non-Jews
Edited sentence: From the 17th century on this term was most commonly used to refer to non-Jews, and inaccurate usage as technically speaking, the Jews are gentiles.In ancient Hebrew text the term "gentile" is used as a racist term against white people comparable to the latter-day term "honky".The first usage of the word "gentile" is in the book of Genesis after the flood Noah's three sons disperse to repopulate the world.The people designated as "gentiles" were the Medeans, who hailed from what is now southern Russia, the Persians (Iranians), Greeks and Romans.The sons of Ham were henceforth known as Hamites, the sons of Shem as Semites and the sons of Japheth as Gentiles.Throughout the Scriptures the term "gentile" is never used in reference to the Egyptians, Cushites, Canaanites, Edomites, or any of the various other people native to North Africa or the Arabian Peninsula.What set these people apart from the Hamitic and Semitic people was that they were all part of the Indo-European race, and that they all had white or light(compared to the Hamito-Semitic people) skin