Pro-Israel activists in northwest England called for legal action against a young man filmed chanting about “putting Zios in the ground” at a London rally on Sunday.
The man was filmed saying: “A chant that we’ve been workshopping in Oxford: ‘Gaza, Gaza, make us proud, put the Zios in the ground.’”
“Zios” is shorthand for Zionists, a slur often used to target Jews broadly.
He recited the chant while wearing a keffiyeh and surrounded by anti-Israel protesters, prompting others to repeat the slogan.
The monster chanting "Put Zios in the ground" is Samuel Williams, a PPE student @BalliolOxford whose family are from Bavaria, the birthplace of the Nazi party. Will Balliol discipline him? Unlikely, his hate-speech will probably guarantee him a "First".pic.twitter.com/vjw3MuNyjm
— Never Again (@Never_Again2020) October 13, 2025
The man identifies himself in the video as Samuel Williams, a philosophy, politics and economics student at Balliol College, Oxford. He also said his family is “from Bavaria, the home of Nazi [Germany].”
North Western Friends of Israel, a pro-Israel group with many Jewish members, wrote on X: “As Mancunian Jews we demand this inciter of violence & murder is arrested now. Will you give us actions and not just words?”
On Oct. 2, two people were killed on Yom Kippur when Jihad al-Shamie, 35, a British national of Syrian descent, rammed a vehicle into a crowd outside a synagogue in Manchester and stabbed others.
Al-Shamie phoned emergency services during the terrorist attack and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
