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The term appears to date back to the mid- 1980s, although it may have been coined even earlier. It appears to have first been brought to widespread attention in a December 27, 1984 article in the New York Times about robberies committed in California and Washington state by a white supremacist group, The Order. According to the newspaper, the crimes "were conducted to raise money for a war upon the United States Government, which the group calls "ZOG," or Zionist Occupation Government."

The OSB was an offshoot of the Aryan Nations, a group founded in the early 1970s by Richard G. Butler, who had been associated since the 1950s with another anti-Semitic group, the Church of Jesus Christ Christian. These groups trace their origins back to anti-Semitic activists such as Gerald L. K. SmithGerald Lyman Kenneth Smith ( February 27, 1898 April 15, 1976) was considered a demagogue by many. He was briefly the leader of the Share Our Wealth movement. Smith was born in Pardeeville, Wisconsin. He was ordained as a minister in the Disciples of Chri, and had some relations with the Ku Klux KlanThe Ku Klux Klan KKK originally referred to a secret and violent white-supremacist organization founded by veterans of the Confederate Army in 1865, but it was disbanded by 1880. The original group opposed the reforms enforced on the South by Federal troo. It seems likely that the term "Zionist Occupation Government" originated with the Aryan Nations. It was publicised extensively in its literature and the group moved into online communications at a very early stage: in December 1984, NewsweekNewsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States. It is the second-largest weekly magazine in the U. having played second fiddle to TIME during its entire career except for brief moments when its a magazine reported that the Aryan Nations had set up a bulletin boardOffice bulletin board A bulletin board is a place where people can leave public messages, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce events, or provide information. Bulletin boards are often made of a material such as cork to facilitate add called " Aryan Nation Liberty Net " that offered information like the locations of Communist PartyThe Communist Party of the United States of America CPUSA is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. For many years ( 1959- 2000) it was led by Gus Hall. Perhaps the most famous ex-member of the CPUSA is Angela Davis. The current lead offices and "ZOG informers."

In 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan, Aryan Nations posted to its website an " Aryan Declaration of Independence," which declared, "the history of the present Zionist Occupied Government of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations... [all] having a direct object -the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states." Holding "the eradication of the White race and its culture" as "one of its foremost purposes," this "ZOG" is accused of relinquishing the "powers of government to private corporations, White traitors and ruling class Jewish families."

Aryan Nations describes Jews as "the natural enemy of our Aryan (White) Race. This is attested by scripture and all secular history. The Jew is like a destroying virus that attacks our racial body to destroy our Aryan culture and the purity of our Race." Supporters of the ZOG premise often contrast the "tyrannical" actions of the Zionist Occupied Government with the supposed freedom-loving Christian purity of white Americans, as in the example of Pastor Carl Franklin of the Aryan Nations. He was quoted in an April 21, 1993 article in the British newspaper The Guardian as saying that "[y]ou have the tyranny of a Zionist occupation government coming foursquare against a Christian, American white family."

Citing the Book of Revelation, Aryan Nations envisions a "battle" being fought "between the children of darkness (today known as Jews) and the children of light...the Aryan Race, the true Israel of the Bible." There will "soon" be a "day of reckoning," in which "the usurper will be thrown out by the terrible might of Yahweh's people, as they return to their roots and their special destiny." In this struggle between the Jews and "the children of light," Aryan Nations says that the Jews have a surrogate: the Zionist Occupied Government of the United States.

Since 1996 the expression has been picked up and used by various other anti-Semitic groups. A search with Google reveals 882 hits for "Zionist Occupied Government," and over 6,500 hits for articles containing both the words "ZOG" and "Zionist."

This word has also come to be used satirically (See Creedish Occupied Government!, a website alleging the government is controlled by the Amish). The term has been adapted to other political contexts. Leftwingers have referred to the "Korporate Occupied Government." (See The Grassy Knoll.) In India there are references to the " Brahmin Occupied Government." American saxophonist and composer John Zorn performed and recorded with a trio called ZOG.