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Pejorative term
Zio
is a pejorative term for
Zionists
, commonly used by anti-Zionists. The term is often considered antisemitic.
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The
American Jewish Committee
(AJC) lists "Zio" on their Translate Hate Glossary. The AJC claims that the term "Zio" is used by antisemites to disguise their antisemitism as merely anti-Zionism, asserting that "Zio" is actually a short-hand euphemism for "Jew".
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Mosaic Magazine
has said that "Zio" is a "new anti-Jewish slur".
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Ben Samuels, writing for
Haaretz
, has claimed that the term was popularized first by
David Duke
and then later by
leftists
and members of the
British Labour Party
.
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The Zionist writer Ariel Sobel has also claimed that "Zio" is an antisemitic slur with roots within antisemitic right-wing extremist circles that has been adopted by progressives.
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"Zio" can be used as a noun or as a hyphenated or unhyphenated adjective. "Zio-Nazi" is a common pejorative term for Zionists. Other variations of "Zio-" include Zio-Communism, Zio-economics, Zio-supremacism, and Zio-occupied America.
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In 2016, the British Labour Party released an inquiry into antisemitism stating that "Epithets such as...‘Zio’ and others should have no place in Labour party discourse going forward." Speaking at the inquiry's launch,
Jeremy Corbyn
declared that "‘Zio’ is a vile epithet that follows in a long line of earlier such terms that have no place whatsoever in our party."
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In 2017, the organizers of the Chicago
Dyke March
faced accusations of antisemitism after their Twitter account used the term "Zio tears".
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Tony Greenstein
, a Jewish anti-Zionist from the United Kingdom, was accused of antisemitism in 2018 for using the term "Zios", among other allegations, and was expelled from the British Labour Party.
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