Zionist Occupied Government

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Zionist Occupied Government (German: Zionist occupied government , abbreviated to ZOG ) is a political catchphrase used in right-wing extremist - anti-Semitic circles . It refers to the conspiracy theory of world Jewry , imagined as homogeneous , which allegedly makes use of globalization to secretly control various national governments.

Concept history

anti-Semitic "ZOG" graffiti with the words "Crush ZOG" (German: "destroy Zionist occupied government") on a garage wall.

The acronym ZOG first appeared in 1976 in a pamphlet by the American neo-Nazi Eric Thomson. Then in 1978 William Luther Pierce , a member of the American Nazi Party , used it in his novel The Turner Diaries . It tells how white Christian patriots in the United States start a guerrilla war against the supposedly Jewish-controlled government in Washington, which is trying to take away their right to bear arms. The novel ends with the rebels launching a nuclear strike against Israel .

The term became more popular in 1984 when the New York Times reported on it. The term spread among numerous right-wing groups in the United States, from racists who believe in white supremacy to supporters of the American militia movement to Christian fundamentalists like Randy Weaver who believe they are living in the end times . The Christian Identity Movement , which assumes that only the whites are descended from Adam , while Jews are descendants of Satan , stigmatizes the US government as "occupied by Zionists". Their followers therefore refuse to pay taxes and reject state identification documents as the " mark of the beast " ( Rev 13:16  EU ). They contributed to the change in anti-Semitic stereotypes in the United States, from the traditional image of the despised diaspora Jew to the present day, where American right-wing extremists believe that Judaism is a political power striving for world domination . Right-wing terrorist Timothy McVeigh viewed his 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City as a blow to the ZOG. Since the 1990s, the catchphrase has also been used by right-wing extremists in other western countries such as Germany, also as a code word , often combined with an anti-American thrust.

content

The term Zionist Occupied Government is aimed centrally against globalism , i.e. the idea that international cooperation and globalization bring advantages for everyone involved. In doing so, he takes up the old idea of ​​a Jewish world conspiracy , as outlined in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion . There it is claimed that wealthy Jews would conspire to establish a world government . The conspiracy theories surrounding this term assume that the media, finance, schools and liberal politicians are controlled by Jews. The latter would lead them to advocate affirmative action for real equality for African Americans , the right to abortion , gun control , immigration and multiculturalism . The foreign policy of the United States towards Israel and its membership in the United Nations and other international organizations, which would prepare an extensive renunciation of its sovereignty and self-determination, is often given as evidence . Some conspiracy theorists believe the United States armed forces are preparing to seize all firearms in the country that are still in the hands of "patriots" and enforce a state of emergency . Others see the Jewish-led conspiracy in which they believe a sign of the approaching rule of the Antichrist , which God himself would destroy in the final apocalyptic battle of Armageddon .

Variations and related terms

Zionist Occupation Government, Zionist Occupied Remote Government

In addition to Zionist Occupied Government, the long form Zionist Occupation Government, originally created by Thomson, appears less often for the acronym ZOG , as well as ZORG as an abbreviation for Zionist Occupied Remote Government (“Zionist occupied puppet government”). The abbreviation JOG for Jewish Occupied Government also has a similar meaning.

Jewish republic

Jewish republic has a similar meaning to ZOG, but refers to the German federal government and describes an alleged control of Germany by " Jews ". The term was already applied to the imperial government in the Weimar Republic .

USrael

USrael is a box word made from USA and Israel . Anti-Semitic conspiracy ideologues use the term to express that in truth Israel or “the Jews” rule the USA.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Thomson: Welcome to ZOG-World. In: First Amendment Exercise Machine (FAEM). Robert Frenz, 1999, accessed July 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Jeff Insko: ZOG . In: Peter Knight (Ed.): Conspiracy Theories in American History. To Encyclopedia . ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, Denver and London 2003, Vol. 2, p. 758.
  3. ↑ Wayne King: Links of Anti-Semitic Band Provoke 6-state Parley. In: New York Times . December 27, 1984, p. 7 , accessed on July 15, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ Jeff Insko: ZOG . In: Peter Knight (Ed.): Conspiracy Theories in American History. To Encyclopedia . ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, Denver and London 2003, Vol. 2, p. 758.
  5. ^ Monika Schmidt: Christian Identity . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus . Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Vol. 5: Organizations, institutions, movements. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027878-1 , p. 99 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  6. ↑ Aaron Winter: My Enemies Must Be Friends. The American Extreme-Right, Conspiracy Theory, Islam, and the Middle East . In Michael Butter and Maurus Reinkowski (Eds.): Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East. A Comparative Approach . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033827-0 , p. 48 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  7. ^ John Haas, Michael Waltman: The Communication of Hate - Language as Social Action. New York 2010, ISBN 978-1433104473 , p. 1.
  8. ↑ For example the album Rock gegen ZOG by the right-wing rock band Landser
  9. ↑ Klaus Blume: Tatort fan curve. Football, violence and right-wing extremism . Rotbuch, Berlin 2013 available online at Google.Books ; Samuel Salzborn: Global Anti-Semitism. A search for traces in the abyss of modernity. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim, Basel 2018, p. 67.
  10. ↑ Glossary: ​​Globalization / Globalism . democie-leben.de , accessed on October 26, 2019.
  11. ↑ Jeff Insko: ZOG . In: Peter Knight (Ed.): Conspiracy Theories in American History. To Encyclopedia . ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, Denver and London 2003, Vol. 2, p. 758.
  12. ^ Racist acronyms: ZOG / JOG. Anti-Defamation League , archived from the original on July 15, 2018 ; accessed on July 25, 2018 (English).
  13. ↑ Jan Rathje: Terms, trends and long-running conspiracy ideologies: ZOG, Zionist Occupied Government (Zionist occupied government). In: Belltower.News . September 29, 2015, accessed July 15, 2018 . USrael / Jewnited States. In: The game of hide and seek. Retrieved July 25, 2018 . Tobias Jaecker: Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories after September 11th. New variants of an old interpretation model . LIT, Münster 2004, pp. 81 and 144 f. Juliane Wetzel : Conspiracy Theories. In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present. Vol. 3: Concepts, theories, ideologies . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010, p. 337.