as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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Recent Examples of pogrom
Conquest, war, famine and death, disease and pogroms had been the driving forces behind the great migrations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The killings, which began with clashes between Assad loyalists and pro-government forces, turned into an all-out sectarian pogrom targeting Alawites, members of an Islamic sect who dominate Syria’s coastal regions and are viewed by some Muslims as apostates.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The killings, which began with clashes between Assad loyalists and pro-government forces, turned into an all-out sectarian pogrom targeting Alawites, members of an Islamic sect who dominate Syria’s coastal regions and are viewed by some Muslims as apostates.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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But in the decade since the massacre, the families and others have been troubled by other deadly attacks against people because of their race, ethnicity or faith.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
17 June 2025
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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During the holocaust [sic] our grandparents would have been delighted if people in the free world had stood up for them.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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The national security team's meeting today was ongoing at 9 p.m. 5h ago / 6:41 PM PDT Share 'Israel refuses to be the victim of a nuclear holocaust,' Netanyahu says Phil Helsel Netanyahu said Iran and its nuclear program are threats to Israel's very existence.—
Marin Scott,
NBC news,
13 June 2025
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Yet for those that survived the carnage, this created opportunities.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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But the main disagreement with them is not in their correct dismissal of deregulation as the cause of the carnage, but in their ongoing support of government intervention, including bailouts.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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