Editing Goy (section)

== In antisemitism ==
According to the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], [[White supremacy|white supremacists]] have ironically used the term "goy" in reference to themselves as a signal of their belief in [[conspiracy theories about Jews]].<ref name=SPLC /> For example, a [[Antisemitism in contemporary Hungary|Hungarian antisemitic]] motorcycle association refers to themselves as the [[Goyim riders]],<ref name=Molnar /> and in 2020 [[Kyle Chapman (American activist)|Kyle Chapman]] tried to rename the far-right group the [[Proud Boys]] to the [[Kyle Chapman (American activist)#Attempted takeover of the Proud Boys|Proud Goys]].<ref name=JPost1 />

In a similar vein, the [[far-right]] American [[Traditionalist Worker Party]], in 2017, created the [[crowdfunding]] platform called GoyFundMe, a [[wordplay]] on the popular crowdfunding platform [[GoFundMe]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Nazi sympathizer profiled by NYT loses job, asks for donations on racist fundraising site | website=ThinkProgress | date=November 29, 2017 | url=https://archive.thinkprogress.org/nazis-are-raising-funds-401a474ab37b/ | access-date=December 12, 2020 | archive-date=January 16, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116212058/https://archive.thinkprogress.org/nazis-are-raising-funds-401a474ab37b/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Goyim Defense League]] (GDL) and its website, GoyimTV, are another example.<ref>{{cite web|website=[[Anti-Defamation League]]|url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/goyim-defense-league|title=Goyim Defense League|access-date=2024-09-23|archive-date=2023-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131000430/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/goyim-defense-league|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/nashville-neo-nazi-white-supremacists|title=Nashville struggles to respond as Neo-Nazi groups turn focus on to city}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Jerusalem Post]]|url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-747331|title=Inside GoyimTV, an underbelly of antisemitic neo-Nazi hate|access-date=2024-09-23|archive-date=2024-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923015040/https://www.jpost.com//diaspora/antisemitism/article-747331|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]]|url=https://www.jta.org/2024/03/08/united-states/white-supremacists-seizing-on-israel-hamas-war-have-accelerated-their-antisemitism-since-oct-7|title=White supremacists, seizing on Israel-Hamas war, have accelerated their antisemitism since Oct. 7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/goyim-defense-league-founder-sentenced-to-30-days-for-antisemitic-littering|title=Goyim Defense League founder sentenced to 30 days for antisemitic littering|access-date=2024-09-23|archive-date=2024-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240729091722/https://www.timesofisrael.com/goyim-defense-league-founder-sentenced-to-30-days-for-antisemitic-littering/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|website=NJ PEN|url=https://www.njpen.com/antisemitic-white-supremacist-propaganda-litters-collingswood-lawns|title=Antisemitic, White Supremacist Propaganda Litters Collingswood Lawns|date=21 May 2024 }}</ref>

[[Europol]]'s 2021 report on ''Terrorism Situations and Trends'' discusses the German ''Goyim Partei Deutschland'' ('Goyim Party Germany'), "a [[right-wing extremism|right-wing extremist]] organisation" founded in 2016 which "used its website to publish antisemitic and [[racism|racist]] texts, pictures and videos."<ref name=Europol>{{cite web |title=Terrorism Situations and Trends |date=2021 |website=Europol |page=83 |url=https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/tesat_2021_0.pdf}}</ref>

The slur is also featured in the far-right [[catchphrase]] or [[meme]] '''The Goyim Know, Shut It Down''' associated with [[Neo-Nazism in the United States|Neo-Nazis]] on online forums like the [[4chan]] and [[8chan]]. In this context, the "speaker" assumes the role of a "panicking [[Jew]]" who reacts to an event that would reveal Jewish "manipulations" or Jewish "deceitfulness".<ref name=ADL1 />

According to the [[Anti-Defamation League]], the antisemitic meme first appeared on 4chan in 2013.<ref name= ADL1>{{cite web | title=The Goyim Know/Shut It Down | website=Anti-Defamation League | url=https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/the-goyim-knowshut-it-down | access-date=December 6, 2020 | archive-date=November 21, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121074425/https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/the-goyim-knowshut-it-down | url-status=live }}</ref> Einstein Schorr called the meme an instance of "[[cultural appropriation|linguistic appropriation]]" whereby Neo-Nazis cynically incorporated "pseudo-[[Yiddish]] phrases" into their vocabulary to ridicule [[Jews]]. Schorr describes that as a way to propagate the "anti-Semitic myth that we are a cabal with our own secret language and agenda."<ref name="Schorr2017"/><ref>{{cite web|website=[[American Jewish Committee]]|url=https://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2021-02/AJC_Translate-Hate-Glossary-2021.pdf|title=AJC's glossary of antisemitic terms, phrases, conspiracies, cartoons, themes, and memes.|access-date=2024-09-23|archive-date=2022-12-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211071245/http://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2021-02/AJC_Translate-Hate-Glossary-2021.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Anti-Defamation League further deciphers the catchphrase,<ref>{{cite web|website=[[Anti-Defamation League]]|url=https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/goyim-knowshut-it-down|title=The Goyim Know/Shut It Down}}</ref>

{{Blockquote|text=The language is typically used in references to antisemitic conspiracy theories depicting Jews as malevolent puppet-masters, manipulating [[antisemitic trope#Controlling the media|the media]], banks, and even entire governments to the benefit of themselves but to the detriment of other peoples.}}