Iraq, and Yemen are both having a civil war as well. Lebanon is dealing with the spillover of the Syrian Civil War. Several other countries have had major governmental changes. The Arab Spring most certainly affected the Asian part of the Arab world.
Between uprisings or protests in Beirut, Oman, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia (all put down, Bahrain's still somewhat ongoing), democratic stirrings in Iran, outright civil war in Yemen, outright civil war and near disintegration of the state in Syria and Iraq, constant fighting in Kurdistan, increased terrorism/political upheavals in Turkey, the formation of Islamic State, and the massive refugee crisis... I'd say that it affected the Middle East *more* than North Africa. Also Egypt is almost always included in the Middle East in addition to being part of North Africa.
The term "antisemitism" does not have much to do with the Semitic language group. Wilhelm Marr coined the term to specify that he was racist, but did not judge Jewish people for their religion. Therefore, he promoted antisemitism, meant specifically to express racial disgust towards Jewish people. The reason the term caught on was because it was unpopular in educated circles to discriminate based on religion in the late 1800s. Racial discrimination, on the other hand, was as popular as ever because of the bunk theory of Social Darwinism.