Goyim riders
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| Abbreviation | GMA, GME |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2000 |
| Affiliations | Our Homeland Movement |
| Remarks | Ultranationalism, Hard Euroscepticism, far-right ideology |
Goyim riders are members of the Goyim Motorcycle Association (Hungarian: Gój Motoros Egyesület), an anti-Roma and antisemitic Hungarian ultra-nationalist political movement.
The name is rooted in the Biblical Hebrew word goy meaning "a people or "a nation", a term that shifted in Yiddish and modern Hebrew to refer to a non-Jew, sometimes pejoratively. A series of philological essays in the premier weekly of the Hungarian liberal literati, Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature) by "distinguished linguists," discussed the reversal in usage by the Goyim riders which turned the out-group definition into an in-group definition.[1][2][3][4]
History and membership
The group was informally established by 2000, and organized as a non-profit civic association in 2006.[1]
The group is prosperous, as the ability to afford an expensive, often imported, motorcycle is beyond the means of most working-class Hungarians, and includes prominent figures in business and sports.[1]