December
13, 2023
Montréal
(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pogrom. This Russian term denotes a
violent riot incited with the aim of massacring Jews and destroying their
property. One of the deadliest pogroms (50 Jews were killed and nearly 600
wounded) took place in Kishinev a hundred and twenty years ago, in April 1903.
But the trauma of Russian Zionists facing the oppression in Tsarist Russia over
a century ago continues to inform Israel’s political culture.