Posts Tagged: Arab pogroms
Remembering the 1920 Passover Pogrom in Israel
On November 2, 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration, which supported the idea of Jewish statehood in "Palestine." Just two years later, local British administrators challenged that...
Remembering Farhud Day and the Arab Pogroms
While I was speaking to the packed room, a woman I did not know, sitting in the front row, slowly shook her tear-stained head in...
When Baghdad Burned: The June 1941 Farhud Massacre
"Violent dispossession." In an Arabic dialect, the word is Farhud. For decades after it occurred, many thought the nightmare was a sudden and unexpected convulsion that...
