March 23, 2016
Who’re You Calling a “Zio”?
By PhilologosAs news reports from Britain confirm, a new anti-Jewish slur is making the rounds. Where did it come from?
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As if there weren’t enough words for Jews, we’ve now been informed by a news story from England that the people who don’t like them have a new one.
The story concerned the resignation of Alex Chalmers from his position as co-chair of the Oxford University Labor-party club after accusing it of widespread anti-Semitism. One expression of this anti-Semitism, Chalmers said, as reported by the February 16 Daily Mail among others, was “throwing around the term ‘Zio’ with abandon.” This, the Mail explained to its readers, is “a term for Jews usually confined to websites run by the Ku Klux Klan.”