pogrom

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The term "pogrom" refers to violent attacks against Jews because of their religion.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Shlomo Mansour was born in Baghdad and as a child survived the Farhud pogrom against the Iraqi capital's Jewish community in 1941.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

The United States condemned the events, which a State Department spokesperson said had "looked like a pogrom."

From Reuters • Oct. 30, 2023

She recalled hearing glass shattering on Kristallnacht, the pogrom in November 1938 that marked a turning point in Hitler’s persecution of Jews in Europe.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2023

Superficially, as I say, he seems to have made little progress in this benign pogrom.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)