: 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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Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
In the West Bank, Israel expanded settlements and declined to punish settlers who launched pogroms against their Palestinian neighbors.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
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But strains of anti-Jewish hatred that had long raged in Imperial Russia and led to waves of pogroms in the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as discriminatory residency and employment laws from Moscow to St. Petersburg, continued to permeate sectors of Soviet society.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
In the West Bank, Israel expanded settlements and declined to punish settlers who launched pogroms against their Palestinian neighbors.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2024
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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