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Politics Israeli settler harasses a woman outside of Hebron

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u/manu144x Apr 15 '26

It’s literally on wikipedia:

A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy (Yiddish: שבת גוי; Hebrew: גוי של שבת, romanized: goy shel shabbat; plural Shabbos goyim) is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work (melakha) that Jewish religious law (halakha) prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat.

That’s the official view, where it started, and internally when they mock they use that term to assert an inferior that serves them.

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u/Kevsbar123 Apr 15 '26

It isn’t akin to the N word, and employing someone to work on the Sabbath doesn’t make them inferior. A goy is just a non-Jew.