Hi! I watch this creator that’s kinda harsh on jewish people. He’s used the term “Goy” before. He supports palestine afaik, but I think he could be a little antisemitic, maybe I’m wrong, I’m hoping I’m wrong. I’m not gonna say who this creator is because I don’t want to bring disrespect upon him. In one of the videos he made, he’s watching a channel called Due Dissidence, which, again, afaik, they are left-wing/left-leaning. Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions. I’m anti-zionist, but I don’t hate jewish people. I guess my actual question is, is it antisemitic to call jewish or non-jewish people “Goy”? He’s said this in the context where the person is bending the knee to israel and obeying israel.
UPDATE: I looked at his instagram, as I follow him on instagram, and lots of left-wing/pro-palestine people follow him.


I think we’re going to need a little more context on who he is and how he’s using the word “goy”
It comes from Hebrew/Yiddish, so it’s a word used predominantly by Jewish people, and so not inherently antisemitic. It basically means non-jew, it’s roughly synonymous with the term “gentile” that you might be more familiar with if you’ve had a Christian upbringing.
How Jews use it of course varies a lot, plenty just use it without any particular deeper meaning, just a matter-of-fact statement that the person they’re referring to isn’t Jewish.
Some of course do use it with a bit of Malice if they value non-jews less highly than their fellow Jews.
I’ve also heard it used, usually somewhat jokingly, by Jews to refer to other Jews who aren’t acting in a way that they think is in accordance with Jewish customs. I remember one time my one Jewish friend who keeps kosher (kind of, he definitely bends the rules more than a bit) was teasing another Jewish friend who had ordered a bacon cheeseburger or something while we were out grabbing lunch, calling him a goy and lumping him in with the rest of the non-jews sitting around the table. It was all in good fun, just a bunch of guys joking around over a couple beers.
Again, I’m sure there’s some Jews out there who would do something like that and mean it as an actual insult.
If the person saying it isn’t Jewish themselves, that’s where you might have a case for their use being antisemitic.
I’m not Jewish, I could definitely see myself using goy or a handful handful of other jewish words and phrases I’ve picked up when I’m joking around with my Jewish friends. I might even call one of them a goy jokingly like in that bacon cheeseburger situation. Mostly though I’d probably use it to refer to myself, like if they were talking about, let’s say a Chanukah celebration, and I didn’t understand what they were talking about, I might tell them to need to explain it again in “goy” for me.
But if I’m not with friends that I have a good rapport with, I probably wouldn’t joke like that, I don’t want to give the wrong impression that I’m genuinely criticizing them for not being Jewish “enough,” as a non Jew I really don’t think it’s my place to be making that kind of judgement.
And I certainly wouldn’t be using it seriously to criticize Jews. I wouldn’t call Israeli Zionists goys (goyim I believe is actually the proper pluralization) based on their Zionist beliefs, there’s plenty of totally secular terms I can come up with to criticize them.
I could also see an antisemite using Jewish terms like goy in a mocking fashion, which, yeah that’s pretty antisemitic, basically the same thing as a white supremacist making fun of a black person for using AAVE.
And of course, depending on the person, the tone, how they’re using it, their target audience, etc. it could be totally non-problematic.