Goy

[2] Through Yiddish,[3] the word has been adopted into English (pl: goyim or goys) also to mean "gentile", sometimes in a pejorative sense.

Before that time, academics Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi have argued, no crystallized dichotomy between Jew and non-Jew existed in Judaism.

[23] Ophir and Rosen-Zvi state that the early Jewish convert to Christianity, Paul, was key in developing the concept of "goy" to mean non-Jew: "This brilliant Hellenist Jew [Paul] considered himself the apostle of the Christian gospel "to the gentiles," and precisely because of this he needed to define that category more thoroughly and carefully than his predecessors.

Paul made the conception that "goyim" are not "peoples," but rather a general category of human beings, into a central element of his thought...

Dan Friedman, executive director of The Forward in "What 'Goy' Means, And Why I Keep Using It" writes that it can be used as an insult but that the word is not offensive.

"[27] Andrew Silow Carroll writes:[28] But the word "goy" has too much historical and linguistic baggage to be used as casually as "non-Jew" or "gentile."

"Goyishe naches" describes the kinds of things that a Jew mockingly presumes only a gentile would enjoy, like hunting, sailing and eating white bread.Nahma Nadich, deputy director of the Jewish Community Relations of Greater Boston writes: I definitely see goy as a slur — seldom used as a compliment, and never used in the presence of a non-Jew.adding[28] That's a good litmus test: if you wouldn't use a word in the presence of someone you're describing, [there is a] good chance it's offensive.According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, white supremacists have ironically used the term "goy" in reference to themselves as a signal of their belief in conspiracy theories about Jews.

[35][36][37][38][39][40] Europol's 2021 report on Terrorism Situations and Trends discusses the German Goyim Partei Deutschland ('Goyim Party Germany'), "a right-wing extremist organisation" founded in 2016 which "used its website to publish antisemitic and racist texts, pictures and videos.

[42] Einstein Schorr called the meme an instance of "linguistic appropriation" whereby Neo-Nazis cynically incorporated "pseudo-Yiddish phrases" into their vocabulary to ridicule Jews.

"[27][43] The Anti-Defamation League further deciphers the catchphrase,[44] The language is typically used in references to antisemitic conspiracy theories depicting Jews as malevolent puppet-masters, manipulating the media, banks, and even entire governments to the benefit of themselves but to the detriment of other peoples.