Word: pogroms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that forces panicked citizens to keep their transistor radios tuned to the police band and gives credence to constant ru mors of terror. Chinese secret societies, the backbone of self-defense whenever officials are distrusted, are flourishing and, justifiably or not, Malaysia's minorities are preparing for a pogrom...
WBAI was picketed by about 200 members of the Jewish Defense League, the publishers of the inflammatory Jewish Press, a weekly warning of pogrom plans. The JDL demanded immediate cancellation of the Julius Lester Show, and apology from WBAI, and a written pledge that "no more time will be granted these haters." "This was a demand for censorship," Miss McDevitt said. "Of course it was rejected...
...rather anti-racism. Anti-Semitism in other parts of the world was used by the power structure as a rallying point. In New York the Jews are in the position of power; the blacks are the minority. It's not the same thing at all. As to the pogrom fantasy, even if the desire exists--and I am firmly convinced that it does not--the power is nonexistent...
Fein: The peculiar tragedy is that the Jewish community has a history of many creative relationships with blacks. We have shared a great deal. While your grandfather was being whipped in Mississippi, my grandfather was being killed in a pogrom. I may be dead wrong on this, but I sense that blacks say to themselves: "Look, the Jews have gotten it in the neck, too; yet they've been extraordinarily successful in this country. How do I explain their success and black nonsuccess?" They're certainly not going to conclude that Jews are better than black people...
...announced goal of El Fatah, the Arab terrorist organization, is to provoke Israelis into a pogrom of Arabs living in Israel and thereby shatter all Israeli hopes for peaceful coexistence in their occupied territories. Last week, in the latest of a series of bomb attacks, Arab terrorists struck for the first time in Tel Aviv and succeeded in rousing an angry Jewish response...