Pogrom Explained
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A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, usually applied to attacks on Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe late 19th- and early 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Retrospectively, similar attacks against Jews which occurred in other times and places were renamed pogroms. Nowadays the word is used to describe publicly sanctioned purgative attacks against non-Jewish groups as well. The characteristics of a pogrom vary widely, depending on the specific incident, at times leading to, or culminating in, massacres.[1]
Significant pogroms in the Russian Empire included the Odessa pogroms, Warsaw pogrom (1881), Kishinev pogrom (1903), Kiev pogrom (1905), and Białystok pogrom (1906). After the collapse of the Russian Empire in 1917, several pogroms occurred amidst the power struggles in Eastern Europe, including the Lwów pogrom (1918) and Kiev pogroms (1919).The most significant pogrom which occurred in Nazi Germany was the 1938 Kristallnacht. At least 91 Jews were killed, a further thirty thousand arrested and subsequently incarcerated in concentration camps, a thousand synagogues burned, and over seven thousand Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged. Notorious pogroms of World War II included the 1941 Farhud in Iraq, the July 1941 Iași pogrom in Romaniain which over 13,200 Jews were killedas well as the Jedwabne pogrom in German-occupied Poland. Post-World War II pogroms included the 1945 Tripoli pogrom, the 1946 Kielce pogrom, the 1947 Aleppo pogrom, and the 1955 Istanbul pogrom.
This type of violence has also occurred to other ethnic and religious minorities. Examples include the 1984 Sikh massacre in which 3,000 Sikhs were killed[2] and the 2002 Gujarat pogrom against Indian Muslims.[3]
The word pogrom
See main article: Definitions of pogrom.
Etymology
First recorded in English in 1882, the Russian word Russian: pogróm (pronounced as /ru/) is derived from the common prefix Russian: po- and the verb Russian: gromít' (pronounced as /ru/) meaning 'to destroy, wreak havoc, demolish violently'. The noun pogrom, which has a relatively short history, is used in English and many other languages as a loanword, possibly borrowed from Yiddish (where the word takes the form Yiddish: פאָגראָם|rtl=yes). Its modern widespread circulation began with the antisemitic violence in the Russian Empire in 1881–1883.[4]
Usage of the word
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, "the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, [and] the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881". The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms "were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire." However, the term is widely used to refer to many events which occurred prior to the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire. Historian of Russian Jewry John Klier writes in Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881–1882: "By the twentieth century, the word 'pogrom' had become a generic term in English for all forms of collective violence directed against Jews."[5] Abramson points out that "in mainstream usage the word has come to imply an act of antisemitism", since while "Jews have not been the only group to suffer under this phenomenon ... historically Jews have been frequent victims of such violence."
The term is also used in reference to attacks on non-Jewish ethnic minorities, and accordingly, some scholars do not include antisemitism as the defining characteristic of pogroms. Reviewing the word's uses in scholarly literature, historian Werner Bergmann proposes that a pogrom should be "defined as a unilateral, nongovernmental form of collective violence that is initiated by the majority population against a largely defenseless minority ethnic group, and occurring when the majority expect the state to provide them [sic] with no assistance in overcoming a (perceived) threat from the minority". However, Bergmann adds that in Western usage, the word's "anti-Semitic overtones" have been retained. Historian David Engel supports this view, writing that while "there can be no logically or empirically compelling grounds for declaring that some particular episode does or does not merit the label [pogrom]," the majority of the incidents which are "habitually" described as pogroms took place in societies that were significantly divided by ethnicity or religion where the violence was committed by members of the higher-ranking group against members of a stereotyped lower-ranking group with which they expressed some complaint, and where the members of the higher-ranking group justified their acts of violence by claiming that the law of the land would not be used to prevent the alleged complaint.
There is no universally accepted set of characteristics which define the term pogrom. Klier writes that "when applied indiscriminately to events in Eastern Europe, the term can be misleading, the more so when it implies that 'pogroms' were regular events in the region and that they always shared common features." Use of the term pogrom to refer to events in 1918–19 in Polish cities (including the Kielce pogrom, the Pinsk massacre and the Lwów pogrom) was specifically avoided in the 1919 Morgenthau Report; the word "excesses" was employed instead because the authors argued that the use of the term "pogrom" required a situation to be antisemitic rather than political in nature, which meant that it was inapplicable to the conditions which exist in a war zone. Media use of the term pogrom to refer to the 1991 Crown Heights riot caused public controversy. In 2008, two separate attacks in the West Bank by Israeli Jewish settlers on Palestinian Arabs were characterized as pogroms by then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert.[6] [7]
Werner Bergmann suggests that all such incidents have a particularly unifying characteristic: "By the collective attribution of a threat, the pogrom differs from other forms of violence, such as lynchings, which are directed at individual members of a minority group, while the imbalance of power in favor of the rioters distinguishes pogroms from other forms of riots (food riots, race riots or 'communal riots' between evenly matched groups); and again, the low level of organization separates them from vigilantism, terrorism, massacre and genocide".
History of anti-Jewish pogroms
The first recorded anti-Jewish riots took place in Alexandria in the year 38 CE, followed by the more known riot of 66 CE. Other notable events took place in Europe during the Middle Ages. Jewish communities were targeted in 1189 and 1190 in England and throughout Europe during the Crusades and the Black Death of 1348–1350, including in Toulon, Erfurt, Basel, Aragon, Flanders[8] [9] and Strasbourg.[10] Some 510 Jewish communities were destroyed during this period,[11] extending further to the Brussels massacre of 1370. On Holy Saturday of 1389, a riot began in Prague that led to the burning of the Jewish quarter, the killing of many Jews, and the suicide of many Jews trapped in the main synagogue; the number of dead was estimated at 400–500 men, women and children.[12] Attacks against Jews also took place in Barcelona and other Spanish cities during the massacre of 1391.
The brutal murders of Jews and Poles occurred during the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648–1657 in present-day Ukraine, then within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[13] Modern historians give estimates of the scale of the murders by Khmelnytsky's Cossacks ranging between 40,000 and 100,000 men, women and children, or perhaps many more. However, these figures are contested as being too high, with the lowest estimates suggesting that 18,000–20,000 Jews died out of a total population of 40,000, many due to disease and famine.[14]
An outbreak of violence against Jews (Hep-Hep riots) occurred at the beginning of the 19th century in reaction to Jewish emancipation in the German Confederation.[15]
Pogroms in the Russian Empire
The Russian Empire, which previously had very few Jews, acquired territories in the Russian Partition that contained large Jewish populations, during the military partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795.[16] In conquered territories, a new political entity called the Pale of Settlement was formed in 1791 by Catherine the Great. Most Jews from the former Commonwealth were allowed to reside only within the Pale, including families expelled by royal decree from St. Petersburg, Moscow and other large Russian cities.[17] The 1821 Odessa pogroms marked the beginning of the 19th century pogroms in Tsarist Russia; there were four more such pogroms in Odessa before the end of the century.[18] Following the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 by Narodnaya Volya, anti-Jewish events turned into a wave of over 200 pogroms by their modern definition, which lasted for several years.[19] Jewish self-governing Kehillah were abolished by Tsar Nicholas I in 1844.[20]
There is some disagreement about the level of planning from the Tsarist authorities and the motives for the attacks.[21]
The first in 20th-century Russia was the Kishinev pogrom of 1903 in which 49 Jews were killed, hundreds wounded, 700 homes destroyed and 600 businesses pillaged.[22] In the same year, pogroms took place in Gomel (Belarus), Smela, Feodosiya and Melitopol (Ukraine). Extreme savagery was typified by mutilations of the wounded. They were followed by the Zhitomir pogrom (with 29 killed),[23] and the Kiev pogrom of October 1905 resulting in a massacre of approximately 100 Jews. In three years between 1903 and 1906, about 660 pogroms were recorded in Ukraine and Bessarabia; half a dozen more in Belorussia, carried out with the Russian government's complicity, but no anti-Jewish pogroms were recorded in Poland.[24] At about that time, the Jewish Labor Bund began organizing armed self-defense units ready to shoot back, and the pogroms subsided for a number of years.[25] According to professor Colin Tatz, between 1881 and 1920 there were 1,326 pogroms in Ukraine (see: Southwestern Krai parts of the Pale) which took the lives of 70,000 to 250,000 civilian Jews, leaving half a million homeless.[26] This violence across Eastern Europe prompted a wave of Jewish migration westward that totaled about 2.5 million people.[27]
Eastern Europe after World War I
Large-scale pogroms, which began in the Russian Empire several decades earlier, intensified during the period of the Russian Civil War in the aftermath of World War I. Professor Zvi Gitelman (in A Century of Ambivalence, originally published in 1988) estimated that only in 1918–1919 over 1,200 pogroms took place in Ukraine, thus amounting to the greatest slaughter of Jews in Eastern Europe since 1648.[28] The Kiev pogroms of 1919, according to Gitelman, were the first of a subsequent wave of pogroms in which between 30,000 and 70,000 Jews were massacred across Ukraine; although more recent assessments put the Jewish death toll at more than 100,000.[29] [30]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his controversial 2002 book Two Hundred Years Together provided additional statistics from research conducted by Nahum Gergel (1887–1931), published in Yiddish in 1928 and English in 1951. Gergel counted 1,236 incidents of anti-Jewish violence between 1918 and 1921, and estimated that 887 mass pogroms occurred, the remainder being classified as "excesses" not assuming mass proportions. Of all the pogroms accounted for in Gergel's research:
- About 40 percent were perpetrated by the Ukrainian People's Republic forces led by Symon Petliura. The Republic issued orders condemning pogroms, but lacked authority to intervene.[31] After May 1919 the Directory lost its role as a credible governing body; almost 75 percent of pogroms occurred between May and September of that year.[32] Thousands of Jews were killed only for being Jewish, without any political affiliations.[33]
- 25 percent by the Ukrainian Green Army and various Ukrainian nationalist gangs,
- 17 percent by the White Army, especially the forces of Anton Denikin,
- 8.5 percent of Gergel's total was attributed to pogroms carried out by men of the Red Army (more specifically Semyon Budenny's First Cavalry, most of whose soldiers had previously served under Denikin). These pogroms were not, however, sanctioned by the Bolshevik leadership; the high command "vigorously condemned these pogroms and disarmed the guilty regiments", and the pogroms would soon be condemned by Mikhail Kalinin in a speech made at a military parade in Ukraine.[34] [35] [36]
Gergel's overall figures, which are generally considered conservative, are based on the testimony of witnesses and newspaper reports collected by the Mizrakh-Yidish Historiche Arkhiv which was first based in Kiev, then Berlin and later New York. The English version of Gergel's article was published in 1951 in the YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science titled "The Pogroms in the Ukraine in 1918–1921".[37]
On 8 August 1919, during the Polish–Soviet War, Polish troops took over Minsk in Operation Minsk. They killed 31 Jews suspected of supporting the Bolshevist movement, beat and attacked many more, looted 377 Jewish-owned shops (aided by the local civilians) and ransacked many private homes.[38] [39] The "Morgenthau's report of October 1919 stated that there is no question that some of the Jewish leaders exaggerated these evils."[40] [41] According to Elissa Bemporad, the "violence endured by the Jewish population under the Poles encouraged popular support for the Red Army, as Jewish public opinion welcomed the establishment of the Belorussian SSR."[42]
After the First World War, during the localized armed conflicts of independence, 72 Jews were killed and 443 injured in the 1918 Lwów pogrom.[43] [44] [45] [46] [47] The following year, pogroms were reported by the New York Tribune in several cities in the newly established Second Polish Republic.
Pogroms in Europe and the Americas before World War II
Argentina 1919
In 1919, a pogrom occurred in Argentina, during the Tragic Week. It had an added element, as it was called to attack Jews and Catalans indiscriminately. The reasons are not clear, especially considering that, in the case of Buenos Aires, the Catalan colony, established mainly in the neighborhood of Montserrat, came from the foundation of the city, but could have been the result of the influence of Spanish nationalism, which at the time described Catalans as a Semitic ethnicity.[48]
Britain and Ireland
In the early 20th century, pogroms broke out elsewhere in the world as well. In 1904 in Ireland, the Limerick boycott caused several Jewish families to leave the town. During the 1911 Tredegar riot in Wales, Jewish homes and businesses were looted and burned over a period of a week, before the British Army was called in by the then Home Secretary Winston Churchill, who described the riot as a "pogrom".
In the north of Ireland during the early 1920s, violent riots which were aimed at the expulsion of a religious group took place. In 1920, Lisburn and Belfast saw violence related to the Irish War of Independence and partition of Ireland. On 21 July 1920 in Belfast, Protestant Loyalists marched on the Harland and Wolff shipyards and forced over 11,000 Catholic and left-wing Protestant workers from their jobs.[49] The sectarian rioting that followed resulted in about 20 deaths in just three days.[50] These sectarian actions are often referred to as the Belfast Pogrom. In Lisburn, County Antrim, on 23–25 August 1920 Protestant loyalist crowds looted and burned practically every Catholic business in the town and attacked Catholic homes. About 1,000 people, a third of the town's Catholics, fled Lisburn.[51] By the end of the first six months of 1922, hundreds of people had been killed in sectarian violence in newly formed Northern Ireland. On a per capita basis, four Roman Catholics were killed for every Protestant.[52]
In the worst incident of anti-Jewish violence in Britain during the interwar period, the "Pogrom of Mile End", that occurred in 1936, 200 Blackshirt youths ran amok in Stepney in the East End of London, smashing the windows of Jewish shops and homes and throwing an elderly man and young girl through a window. Though less serious, attacks on Jews were also reported in Manchester and Leeds in the north of England.[53]
Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe
See main article: The Holocaust.
The first pogrom in Nazi Germany was the Kristallnacht, often called, in which at least 91 Jews were killed, a further 30,000 arrested and incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burned, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.
During World War II, Nazi German death squads encouraged local populations in German-occupied Europe to commit pogroms against Jews. Brand new battalions of Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz (trained by SD agents) were mobilized from among the German minorities.[54] [55]
A large number of pogroms occurred during the Holocaust at the hands of non-Germans.[56] Perhaps the deadliest of these Holocaust-era pogroms was the Iași pogrom in Romania, perpetrated by Ion Antonescu, in which as many as 13,266 Jews were killed by Romanian citizens, police and military officials.
On 1–2 June 1941, in the two-day Farhud pogrom in Iraq, perpetrated by Rashid Ali, Yunis al-Sabawi, and the al-Futuwa youth, "rioters murdered between 150 and 180 Jews, injured 600 others, and raped an undetermined number of women. They also looted some 1,500 stores and homes". Also, 300–400 non-Jewish rioters were killed in the attempt to quell the violence.[57]
In June–July 1941, encouraged by the Einsatzgruppen in the city of Lviv the Ukrainian People's Militia perpetrated two citywide pogroms in which around 6,000 Polish Jews were murdered, in retribution for alleged collaboration with the Soviet NKVD. In Lithuania, some local police led by Algirdas Klimaitis and Lithuanian partisansconsisting of LAF units reinforced by 3,600 deserters from the 29th Lithuanian Territorial Corps of the Red Army promulgated anti-Jewish pogroms in Kaunas along with occupying Nazis. On 25–26 June 1941, about 3,800 Jews were killed and synagogues and Jewish settlements burned.
During the Jedwabne pogrom of July 1941, ethnic Poles burned at least 340 Jews in a barn (Institute of National Remembrance) in the presence of Nazi German Ordnungspolizei. The role of the German Einsatzgruppe B remains the subject of debate.
Europe after World War II
After the end of World War II, a series of violent antisemitic incidents occurred against returning Jews throughout Europe, particularly in the Soviet-occupied East where Nazi propagandists had extensively promoted the notion of a Jewish-Communist conspiracy (see Anti-Jewish violence in Poland, 1944–1946 and Anti-Jewish violence in Eastern Europe, 1944–1946). Anti-Jewish riots also took place in Britain in 1947.[58]
Pogroms in Asia and North Africa
1834 pogroms in Ottoman Syria
See also: List of massacres in Ottoman Syria, 1834 Hebron pogrom and 1834 Safed pogrom.
There were two pogroms in Ottoman Syria in 1834.
1929 in Mandatory Palestine
See also: 1929 Palestine riots and 1929 Hebron massacre. In Mandatory Palestine under British administration, Jews were targeted by Arabs in the 1929 Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots. They followed other violent incidents such as the 1920 Nebi Musa riots.[59]
British North Africa in 1945
See main article: 1945 Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania.
Anti-Jewish rioters killed over 140 Jews in the 1945 Anti-Jewish Riots in Tripolitania. The 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania was the most violent rioting against Jews in North Africa in modern times. From 5 November to 7 November 1945, more than 140 Jews were killed and many more injured in a pogrom in British-military-controlled Tripolitania. 38 Jews were killed in Tripoli from where the riots spread. 40 were killed in Amrus, 34 in Zanzur, 7 in Tajura, 13 in Zawia and 3 in Qusabat.[60]
In Syria in 1947 and Morocco 1948
See also: 1947 Anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo, 1947 Aden riots, 1948 Anti-Jewish Riots in Oujda and Jerada and History of Moroccan Jews.
Following the start of the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, a number of anti-Jewish events occurred throughout the Arab world, some of which have been described as pogroms. In 1947, half of Aleppo's 10,000 Jews left the city in the wake of the Aleppo riots, while other anti-Jewish riots took place in British Aden and then in 1948 in the French Moroccan cities of Oujda and Jerada.
Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982
See main article: Sabra and Shatila massacre.
The Sabra and Shatila massacre is occasionally referred to as a pogrom.[61] [62]
1984 anti-Sikh riots
See main article: 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Sikhs were targeted in Delhi and other parts of India during a pogrom in October 1984.[63] [64] [65]
May 1998 pogrom of Chinese Indonesians
Indonesia's minority ethnic Chinese population were targeted in a pogrom in the lead-up to the downfall of the Suharto regime. The events were mainly in the cities of Medan, Jakarta, and Surakarta, with smaller incidents in other parts of Indonesia.
Under the Suharto regime, there had been rampant and systematic discrimination against Chinese Indonesians. During the pogrom, there were extensive looting and torching of Chinese Indonesian properties.[66] There were also widespread murders and rape against this minority group.[67] [68] [69]
Pogroms and race riots in the 21st century
2002 Gujarat pogrom
See also: 2002 Gujarat riots and Hindutva.
The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the Gujarat pogrom,[3] were a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat.
The violence was connected to the Ayodhya dispute and the demolition of the Babri Masjid. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya, is cited as having instigated the violence.[70] [71] [72] [73]
Following the initial riot incidents, there were further outbreaks of violence in Ahmedabad for three months; statewide, there were further outbreaks of violence against the minority Muslim population of Gujarat for the next year.[74] [75]
2005 Cronulla riots
See also: Cronulla Race Riots, Islamophobia in Australia and Racism in Australia.
The 2005 Cronulla riots (also known as the "Cronulla Race Riots" or the "Cronulla pogrom")[76] were a series of race riots in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Attacks in the occupied West Bank in 2008
See also: Occupied West Bank.
In 2008, two attacks in the Occupied West Bank by Jewish Israeli settlers on Palestinian Arabs were labeled as pogroms by then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.[6]
2017 anti-Rohingya pogroms
The 2017 Rohingya genocide, was a series of pogroms and other violence committed against the Rohingya minority of Myanmar,[77] [78] particularly in Rakhine State.[78] Facebook was accused of inciting mob violence via social media.[79]
West Bank settler pogroms in the early 2020s
There were many attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank leading up to and during the full scale war in the Gaza Strip starting in 2023.[80]
The Huwara rampage in February 2023
On 26 February, 2023, violent riots broke out from Israeli settlers in Huwara after two Israelis were shot and killed by a Palestinian gunman there earlier that afternoon.[81] The rioters killed one Palestinian, 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash, and wounded dozens, while torching houses and cars.[82]
Top Israeli general in the West Bank, Yehuda Fuchs, referred to the Israeli settlers' actions as a "pogrom": "The incident in Hawara was a pogrom carried out by outlaws,"[83] [84] and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned "vigilantism".
Journalist Gideon Levy wrote an editorial in Haaretz saying that Israel's military had failed to stop the violence stating: "whether out of apathy and complacency, or because they were very deliberately turning a blind eye."[85] A legal expert said that the rioters could face war crime charges if Israel did not conduct an investigation into the perpetrators.[86]
Jewish American documentary maker Simone Zimmerman also used the term pogrom to describe the attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers in Hawara in February 2023.[87] Zimmerman described these attacks as being committed by settlers while the Israeli army stood by and let it happen.
Hamas-initiated attacks on 7 October 2023
See main article: 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel.
On 7 October 2023, Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades militant wing (based in the Gaza Strip), and other groups and individuals incited to join them,[88] initiated an attack on Israel. In addition to the military, the attack also targeted civilian communities and resulted in the deaths of over 695 Israeli civilians, most of whom were Israeli Jews and some of whom were Arab Israelis.[89] [90] In the attacks Al Qassam and other armed groups from Gaza also took approximately 250 people, many of which were non-Israelis hostage, including infants, elderly, and people who had already been severely injured.[91]
The 7 October attacks were described as a "pogrom" by Suzanne Rutland, who defined a pogrom as a government-approved attack on Jews and pointed out that the attacks were initiated by the Hamas, the governing authority of Gaza.[92] Others who have described the 7 October attacks as a pogrom include then-UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, and think tanks such as the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.[93] [94] An editorial by the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board referred to 7 October attacks as a pogrom.[95]
Survivors of October 7 have also described the attack on their kibbutzim as pogroms.[96]
Some historians have objected to the characterisation of 7 October as a pogrom, saying the events on 7 October do not resemble the original historical pogroms in Russia.[97] [98] The Jerusalem Post described the 7 October attacks as "historically unique", as well as "foreseeable" and "expected".[99] Judith Butler, controversially described the attacks as an "act of armed resistance".[100]
West Bank pogroms in 2023
Khirbet Zanuta is a Palestinian Bedouin village in the Hebron Governorate in the southern West Bank, 20km (10miles) south of Hebron, which was ethnically cleansed during the Gaza war.[101] Some farmers remained or returned and the attacks continued.[102] The location has previously been attacked in 2022.[103]
In a surge of Israeli settlers' violence after the October 7 attacks by Hamas, 16 Palestinian villages of total population of about 1,000 were violently depopulated by settlers' pogroms or under the threat of pogrom, including Al-Qanoub (north of Hebron), Southern al-Nassariyah (Jordan Valley), Wadi al-Siq (south of Ramallah), Zanuta (South Hebron Hills), Ein al-Rashash (near Ramallah). In the hearings before the Israeli Supreme Court Palestinians complained that the Israeli police ignores complaints about settlers' violence and refuses to collect evidence.[104]
2024 riots against Syrian refugees in Turkey
See also: Syrians in Turkey.
In 2024 there were pogroms against Syrian refugees in Turkey.[105]
November 2024 Amsterdam riots
The November 2024 Amsterdam riots preceding and following the AFC Ajax - Maccabi Tel Aviv football match were described by some as a "pogrom". Israeli diplomat Danny Danon stated that, "We are receiving very disturbing reports of extreme violence against Israelis and Jews on the streets of Holland. There is a pogrom currently taking place in Europe in 2024".[106] The Mayor of Amsterdam later said that the word "pogrom" was inappropriate and that it had been misused as "propaganda".[107] [108] [109] In the weeks after the event, the initial media coverage was widely criticized for misrepresenting the event.[110] [111] [112] Targets of the violence included Israeli Maccabi Tel Aviv fans,[113] an Arab taxi driver,[114] and pro-Palestinian protestors.[115] In the run-up to the match, some Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were filmed pulling Palestinian flags from houses, making anti-Arab chants such as "Death to Arabs", assaulting people, and vandalising local property.[116] [117] [118] [119] [120] Calls to target Israeli supporters were subsequently shared via social media.[121] [122]
List of events named pogroms
Scope: This is a partial list of events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word pogrom. Inclusion in this list is based solely on evidence in multiple reliable sources that a name including the word pogrom is one of the accepted names for that event. A reliable source that merely describes the event as being a pogrom does not qualify the event for inclusion in this list. The word pogrom must appear in the source as part of a name for the event.
See also
See main article: Outline of genocide studies.
Antisemitism
References and notes
Works cited
Further reading
See main article: Bibliography of genocide studies.
- Book: Astashkevich . Irina . Gendered Violence: Jewish Women in the Pogroms of 1917 to 1921 (Jews of Russia & Eastern Europe and Their Legacy) . 2018 . Academic Studies Press . 978-1-61811-616-1 . en.
- Book: Avrutin . Eugene M. . Bemporad . Elissa . Pogroms: A Documentary History . 2021 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-762929-1 . en.
- Book: Bemporad . Elissa . Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets . 2019 . . 978-0-19-046647-3 . en.
- On the Study of Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide . Paul R.. Brass. Paul Brass . 6 December 2002 . Sawyer Seminar session on "Processes of Mass Killing" . Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University.
- Book: Cohn, Norman . Norman Cohn . 1966 . Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion . New York . . 220903085 . Warrant for Genocide.
- Book: Horvitz . Leslie A. . Catherwood . Christopher . Christopher Catherwood . 2006 . Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide . registration . New York, NY . . 978-0-8160-6001-6.
- Book: McDermott, Jim . 2001 . Northern Divisions The Old IRA and the Belfast Pogroms 1920–22 . BTP Publications . Belfast . 28 . 1-900960-11-7.
- Book: Shelton . Dinah . 2005 . Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity . Detroit . Macmillan Reference . 978-0-02-865847-6.
- Book: Thackrah . John R. . 1987 . Encyclopedia of Terrorism and Political Violence . London . Routledge & Kegan Paul . 978-0-7102-0659-6.
- Unowsky, Daniel. The Plunder: The 1898 Anti-Jewish Riots in Habsburg Galicia (Stanford UP, 2018)
- Book: Veidlinger . Jeff . 1987 . In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust . Picador . 1-5098-6744-9.
- Velychenko, Stephen (2021). Ukraine's Revolutions and anti-Jewish Pogroms (historians.in.ua)
Notes and References
- Encyclopedia: The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . The common usage of the term pogrom to describe any attack against Jews throughout history disguises the great variation in the scale, nature, motivation and intent of such violence at different times. . Pogroms . YIVO Institute for Jewish Research . 2010 . John . Klier . John Klier.
- News: Indira Gandhi's death remembered . Bedi . Rahul . 1 November 2009 . BBC News . The 25th anniversary of Indira Gandhi's assassination revives stark memories of some 3,000 Sikhs killed brutally in the orderly pogrom that followed her killing . 2 November 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091102113639/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8306420.stm . 2 November 2009 . live.
- News: The Soul-Wounds of Massacre, or Why We Should Not Forget the 2002 Gujarat Pogrom . 26 May 2024 . . 27 February 2022 . en . This article is extracted and adapted from the author’s book Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat, Yoda Press, 2019..
"The word "pogrom" (from the Russian, meaning storm or devastation) has a relatively short history. Its international currency dates back to the anti-Semitic excesses in Tsarist Russia during the years 1881–1883, but the phenomenon existed in the same form at a much earlier date and was by no means confined to Russia. As John D. Klier points out in his seminal article "The pogrom paradigm in Russian history", the anti-Semitic pogroms in Russia were described by contemporaries as demonstrations, persecution, or struggle, and the government made use of the term besporiadok (unrest, riot) to emphasize the breach of public order. Then, during the twentieth century, the term began to develop along two separate lines. In the Soviet Union, the word lost its anti-Semitic connotation and came to be used for reactionary forms of political unrest and, from 1989, for outbreaks of interethnic violence; while in the West, the anti-Semitic overtones were retained and government orchestration or acquiescence was emphasized."
"By the twentieth century, the word "pogrom" had become a generic term in English for all forms of collective violence directed against Jews. The term was especially associated with Eastern Europe and the Russian Empire, the scene of the most serious outbreaks of anti-Jewish violence before the Holocaust. Yet when applied indiscriminately to events in Eastern Europe, the term can be misleading, the more so when it implies that "pogroms" were regular events in the region and that they always shared common features. In fact, outbreaks of mass violence against Jews were extraordinary events, not a regular feature of East European life."
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- News: Expecting justice for Muslim victims of 2013 Muzaffarnagar pogrom is ludicrous . 20 July 2024 . People's Review . 20 July 2019.
- News: Oren . Ziv . Investigation: The person killed in the Huwara pogrom was probably shot by settlers . he: תחקיר: ההרוג בפוגרום חווארה נורה כנראה על ידי מתנחלים . https://www.mekomit.co.il/%d7%aa%d7%97%d7%a7%d7%99%d7%a8-%d7%94%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%92-%d7%91%d7%a4%d7%95%d7%92%d7%a8%d7%95%d7%9d-%d7%97%d7%95%d7%95%d7%90%d7%a8%d7%94-%d7%a0%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%94-%d7%9b%d7%a0%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%94/ . 20 July 2024 . local call (שיחה מקומית) . 28 March 2024 . he-IL.
- News: Levy . Gideon . Shock, rage and despair in Hawara in wake of settler pogrom . . 25 May 2024 . en . 4 March 2023 . Photo caption: A building set on fire during the Hawara pogrom. Credit: Majdi Mohammed/AP.
- Salameh . Rula . I Witnessed a Shocking Attack on Palestinian Civilians. What I Saw May Be a Sign of What's to Come . 26 May 2024 . . 18 March 2023 . en . This pogrom on Huwara was far from isolated. Settlers, backed by the Israeli military, have attacked Palestinians communities for years, violence which has been rapidly spiraling. . 16 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240616064621/https://time.com/6264116/west-bank-attack-palestinian-civilians/ . dead .
- News: Aytekin . Ayse Betul . Israeli settlers kill Palestinian man who helped quake victims in Türkiye . 20 July 2024 . . en.