This is the Forward’s coverage of pogroms, violent antisemitic riots targeting Jews.
Pogrom
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Fast Forward There’s a Jewish judge at the center of Trump’s Harvard showdown. Her grandfather escaped pogroms.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs questioned the Trump administration’s bid to cut Harvard’s funding over alleged antisemitism — and drew on a family legacy shaped by exile and justice
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Fast Forward A Facebook history page noted a massacre of British Jews. Cue the laughing emojis.
A post about a medieval pogrom in York, which recently hired its first rabbi in 800 years, was flooded by antisemitic trolls
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Opinion I studied in Amsterdam — the antisemitic violence there doesn’t surprise me
A graduate of the University of Amsterdam recalls an atmosphere of closed-mindedness and vitriol
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Opinion A European Jewish leader on Amsterdam violence: ‘A line has been crossed’
Yes, Israeli soccer fans behaved badly before the riot. But that doesn’t justify physical attacks
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Culture Should we call the violence against Israeli soccer fans a ‘pogrom?’
There are disturbing parallels but also key differences between recent and historic acts of violent antisemitism
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Looking Forward How the Amsterdam pogrom is—and isn’t—like Europe in the 1930s
"I think Europe will become Judenrein," said Abe Foxman, a Holocaust survivor who spent a half century as head of the ADL
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Culture Words matter, which is why we need to call Oct. 7 a ‘pogrom’
Calling the Hamas attacks a 'pogrom' does not mean they are the same as what happened in Russia in 1903
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Yiddish World The Dagestan airport riot — Russia’s first 21st-century pogrom
A video filmed during the riot shows teenagers saying 'we’re here to find the Jews and kill them'
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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