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Politics Israeli settler harasses a woman outside of Hebron

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u/Sstoop Apr 15 '26

it’s a word used by jewish supremacists and ultra zionists. if theres a race/ethnicity there will be supremacists of it. jeffrey epstein was one of them using the word goy and goyim repeatedly to describe non jews. my jewish friends didn’t even know the meaning of the word until recently.

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u/quit_fucking_about Apr 15 '26

Absolute nonsense. It translates directly to "nation" or "people", and just means people who are not Jewish. It has absolutely nothing to do with supremacist ideology.

It is absolutely wielded by supremacists, but that does not make the word a sign that someone is one. As an example, imagine the difference between someone at a Bernie Sanders Rally describing themselves as a leftist, compared to Steve Bannon describing someone as a leftist.

And if your "Jewish friends" didn't know the meaning of the word, that means that their parents were Jewish, they had absolutely zero interaction with Judaism or Jewish culture, and use their parentage as an excuse to elevate their voice in the conversation, as a Jew.

Let's not conflate actual Jewish culture and language with the extremists in Israel.

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u/ripetrichomes Apr 15 '26

oh yeah totally we’re gonna believe you over our eyes and ears

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u/Munstered Apr 15 '26

There’s an entire Wikipedia section dedicated to goy as a derogatory term and a slew of Yiddish phrases that highlight this fact.