: an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically
: such a massacre of Jews
pogromed; pogroming; pogroms
: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom
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Ben Stiller, TIME, 20 June 2024
Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat in 2002, when anti-Muslim pogroms tore across the region, killing upward of a thousand people.
—Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
Decades of antisemitic violence — most notably the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and restrictive religious laws under Soviet and eventually Nazi rule throughout the 20th century decimated a once flourishing Jewish community.
—Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2024
In contrast to the anti-Jewish violence that swept across Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, there were no pogroms and no mass exodus to the Promised Land.
—Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
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His father’s grandfather came from Ukraine, where over 100,000 Jewish people lost their lives in the ethnic pogroms that preceded the great horror of the Holocaust by just two decades.
—Ben Stiller, TIME, 20 June 2024
Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat in 2002, when anti-Muslim pogroms tore across the region, killing upward of a thousand people.
—Maya Jasanoff, The New Yorker, 19 June 2024
Decades of antisemitic violence — most notably the 1903 Kishinev pogrom — and restrictive religious laws under Soviet and eventually Nazi rule throughout the 20th century decimated a once flourishing Jewish community.
—Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 13 June 2024
In contrast to the anti-Jewish violence that swept across Egypt, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, there were no pogroms and no mass exodus to the Promised Land.
—Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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