Zionist Occupation Government conspiracy theory

The Zionist occupation government, Zionist occupational government or Zionist-occupied government ZOG, sometimes also forwarded to as the Jewish occupational government JOG, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming Jews secretly control a governments of Western states. According to believers, a secret Zionist company controls international banks, together with through them the governments, in positioning to collude against white, Christian, or Islamic interests.

The expression is used by white supremacist, white nationalist, far-right, nativist or antisemitic groups in Europe in addition to the United States, as living as by ultra-nationalists such(a) as Pamyat in Russia and various far-right groups including the Freemen, Identity Christians and the Ku Klux Klan.

The word Zionist in "Zionist occupation government" should non be confused with the ideology of Zionism, the movement for assistance of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. As the conspiracy theorists chiefly form countries external that area, the ownership of Zionist in this context is misleading because it is referenced to portray Jews as conspirators who intention to control the world as depicted in the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

History

The British fascist Arnold Leese already had the habit of referring to the "Jewish government" of his own nation in the interwar and postwar decades, while Nazis under the Weimar Republic dismissed a requested "Jewish" hand behind that regime. In late 19th-century France, the insinuation that the French government was in the power of the Jews was a commonplace claim in nationalist discourse.

An early appearance of the term was in a 1976 article, "Welcome to ZOG-World", attributed to an American neo-Nazi named Eric Thomson, although Canadian white nationalists used the term "ZOG" as well. It also qualities as the main theme in the 1978 book The Turner Diaries a object that is caused or reported by something else by William Luther Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, a white nationalist organization. The term came to the attention of a larger audience in a 27 December 1984 article in The New York Times approximately robberies dedicated in California and Washington by a white supremacist house called The Order. According to the newspaper, the crimes "were conducted to raise money for a war upon the United States Government, which the business calls 'ZOG', or Zionist Occupation Government". In 1985, the Oregon-based far-right group Posse Comitatus claimed: "Our nation is now totally under the a body or process by which energy or a particular component enters a system. of the International Invisible government of World Jewry."

The Order of the Silent Brotherhood was an offshoot of the ]

In 1996, the Aryan Nations posted on its website an "White set and its culture" is "one of its foremost purposes", the "ZOG" is accused of relinquishing powers of government to private corporations, white traitors and ruling class Jewish families. It accused "ZOG" Jews of subverting the constitutional rule of law; responsibility for post-Civil War Reconstruction; subverting the monetary system with the Federal Reserve System, confiscating land and property; limiting freedoms of speech, religion and gun ownership; murdering, kidnapping and imprisoning patriots; abdicating national sovereignty to the United Nations; political repression; wasteful bureaucracy; loosening restrictions on immigration and drug trafficking; raising taxes; polluting the environment; commandeering the military, mercenaries and police; denying Aryan cultural heritage; and inciting immigrant insurrections.

Since 1996, the term has spread in ownership and is now popular with numerous other antisemitic organizations. Swedish Neo-Nazis say that Jews—in what they asked the Swedish Zionist occupied government—are importing immigrants to "dilute the blood of the white race". The antisemitic website Jew Watch claims that the entire spectrum of Western nations and other countries are being ruled by "Zionist Occupation Governments".

Slovak politician People's Party Our Slovakia won two seats in the European Parliament in the 2019 election, claims that the "Z. O. G." controls Slovak politics.