Pogroms
On this day: Russian Tsarist forces start Bialystok Pogrom, killing at least 70 Jews
Bialystok, an industrial town in modern-day Poland, had a major Jewish population that was terrorized by local antisemitic Russian military members and police officers.
Advocates decry ‘pogrom on the playground’ after Jewish children targeted in Chicago on Oct. 7
Abakar Abakarov, Dagestani Islamist linked to 2023 airport pogrom, found dead in Turkey
Compensation paid out to victims of Amsterdam riots, law firm announces
'They don't recognize our right to exist': Protesters attack religious Zionist rabbi
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein was attacked by protesters in Tel Aviv, sparking criticism from multiple politicians, including some who compared it to Kristallnacht.
This Week in History: Hebron Massacre
67 Jews were killed. Synagogues and homes, lived in for generations, were destroyed.
Remembering: Rindfleisch massacres of 1298
The slaughter is a potent reminder that German antisemitism did not begin in the 1930s or emerge from nowhere. It had a long and disgraceful record.
Where’s the anguish over Jews continuously murdered by Palestinian terrorists? - opinion
Know comment: Where’s the anguish over Jews continuously murdered by Palestinian terrorists?
Poland refuses to confront its 1968 antisemitic pogrom against Jews - opinion
As we approach the 55th anniversary of the expulsion of 1968, it is time Poland confronts its history by compensating old offenses and confronting the remaining ghosts of the past.
On This Day: Poles kill 340 Jews in Jedwabne pogrom 81 years ago
The massacre is a controversial topic in Poland; as the main perpetrators of the massacre were Poles, it goes against the commonly accepted Polish narrative of the Holocaust.
On This Day: The Farhud pogrom begins against Iraq's Jews 81 years ago
The antisemitic pogrom followed the end of the Anglo-Iraqi War and many view it as the beginning of the end of Iraq's Jewish community.
It’s time to rethink the Zionist dream - opinion
There is a word for violent, unprovoked attacks against innocent Jews going about their ordinary lives: pogrom.
On This Day: Bucharest Jews tortured, raped, killed in Holocaust pogrom
Jews were tortured and gutted to death on meathooks in a twisted reference to shechita. The pogrom was deliberately planned and coincided with the Iron Guard rebellion.
A commentary on Colleyville, courtesy of Mordechai Gebertig - opinion
The italicized lines are from the poem “Es Brent,” written by Mordechai Gebertig in 1936 as he watched his shtetl destroyed in a pogrom.
