Pogroms

Advocates decry ‘pogrom on the playground’ after Jewish children targeted in Chicago on Oct. 7

The incident took place on Oct. 7, during the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, in Shawnee Park, which is located blocks from a number of the town’s Orthodox synagogues.

Five Jewish children were shot with pellet guns at Shawnee Park in Skokie, Illinois on Oct. 7, 2025.
Dagestani activist Abakar Abakarov

Abakar Abakarov, Dagestani Islamist linked to 2023 airport pogrom, found dead in Turkey

 Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters demonstrate and light flares in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 7, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.

Compensation paid out to victims of Amsterdam riots, law firm announces

Protesters running after Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam

Months after Amsterdam pogrom: Four more sentenced, Israelis among 122 suspects


This Week in History: Hebron Massacre

67 Jews were killed. Synagogues and homes, lived in for generations, were destroyed.

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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.

 ACCUSED OF ‘desecrating the host’: A girl in traditional clothing takes sacramental bread in Germany, 2022.

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?

 THE FUNERAL of brothers Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack in Huwara on Sunday, takes place the following day at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.

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.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda delivers a speech before the official start of a march marking the 100th anniversary of Polish independence in Warsaw, Poland November 11, 2018.

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.

Memorial in Jedwabne, dedicated to murdered Jews: "In remembrance of the Jews from Jedwabne and surrounding areas, men, women, children, co-habitants of this earth, murdered, burned alive here on July 10th, 1941"

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.

This Monument, ‘Prayer,’ in Ramat Gan, is in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq during the Farhud pogrom (1941) and in the 1960s.

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.

 MOURNERS EMBRACE at the funeral of Tomer Morad at the Kfar Saba cemetery on Sunday, after he was murdered in last week’s terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.

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.

 Iron Guard Legionnaires are seen marching in Bucharest.

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.

Law enforcement vehicles are seen in the area where a man has reportedly taken people hostage at a synagogue during services that were being streamed live, in Colleyville, Texas, US, January 15, 2022.

On This Day: 955 years since the murder of Jews in Granada massacre

The Jewish vizier was crucified and thousands of Jews in the city were killed in what is widely considered to be an antisemitic pogrom marking the end of Spanish Jewry's Golden Age.

Alandalusian architecture in Granada, Spain (Illustrative).