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.

Nurses stand with victims of the Bialystok pogrom in June 1906.
Five Jewish children were shot with pellet guns at Shawnee Park in Skokie, Illinois on Oct. 7, 2025.

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

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


El Al rescue flights to Amsterdam to operate on Shabbat, trauma response units activate

Phone providers are also offering free roaming packages for Israelis.

 El Al flight

'A new Kristallnacht': Jewish, Israeli figures express horror over Amsterdam pogrom

The President of United Haztalah, Eli Beer said, "This is what happens when terrorists are allowed into Europe." 

 Supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv hold flags at Dam square ahead of the Europa League football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, in Amsterdam on November 7, 2024.

'This is what globalize the intifada looks like': Global leaders react to Amsterdam pogrom

"In terrible historical irony, this is happening two days before the anniversary of Kristallnacht in 1938, when Nazi-sanctioned and led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich."

Protesters running after Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam

Oct. 7, antisemitism, and Tisha B’Av

We now see, dramatically, that antisemitism was underground, waiting to erupt.

 JEWISH MARTYRS of the Spanish Inquisition. From triptych ‘Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam,’ Paris, 1923.

The forgotten pogrom of Mongolia’s Jews - opinion

'Jews were hunted on horseback through the streets of Urga, lynched in their homes, tortured for amusement.'

 THE 'MAD BARON' who led the pogrom in Mongolia.

NYC bar association holds event on the Forced Emigration of Jews from the Middle East

‘People are uninformed regarding Jewish indigeneity to the Middle East,’ say organizers Carole Basri and Aurora Cassirer.

 Speakers of the evening - left to right Judge Sofaer, Judge Strong, Carole Basri and Aurora Cassirer.

New film on 1506 massacre of Lisbon Jews garners worldwide attention

As many as 4,000 Jews were brutally murdered in the Lisbon massacre between April 19 and 21, 1506. 

Poster for the film “1506”.

I survived a pogrom in Iraq 82 years ago. I know where Hamas’ extremism will lead - opinion

Persecution and violence against Jews in Arab countries made 850,000 Jews into refugees. But we all moved on.

 Mass grave of victims of the Farhud, 1941. Scanning of a page from the book 'Iraq' (edited by Haim Saadoun), published by the Ministry of Education and the Ben - Zvi, Jerusalem

October 7 is historically unique

Even in Kishinev, only 49 Jews were murdered, 92 seriously wounded, and 500 lightly wounded. The news shook the world.

 FLAGS, CANDLES, flowers, and a teddy bear with a sign that reads ‘Return the hostages home immediately!’ are placed at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv.

White House: We’ve heard 'crickets' from Kremlin on Dagestan anti-Jewish pogrom

"Nothing, no condemnation, no calling for the stoppage of hate, discrimination and bigotry toward Jews, nothing," United States National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of members of his Security Council and the government and the heads of law enforcement agencies, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 30, 2023