In their stupidity and arrogance they believe they are called upon to remind the gentile continually of pogroms and ghettos.

The assimilation policies are usually enforced by the state, but violence against minorities is not always state initiated: it can occur in the form of mob violence such as lynching or pogroms.

Firstly, it is the extent of self-determination a people are given to protect themselves and determine how they wish to be ruled and what role is played by human rights violations, cultural eradication and pogroms by the Azerbaijani majority against the Armenian communities of Azerbaijan in a decision.

Other considerations of the rules of international law, particularly those prohibiting the use of force and the acquisition of territory, are also relevant in that the Soviet authorities and, subsequently, the Azerbaijani government applied use of military and paramilitary force in ethnic cleansing initiatives like Operation Ring, while the Armenian community of Nagorno-Karabakh established militia forces to resist further pogroms and defend the civilian population by repelling Azeri forces.

Similarly, lynching, pogroms and genocides are sometimes interpreted as human sacrifice following Theodor W. Adorno.

Werner Bergmann proposes that " y the collective attribution of a threat, the pogrom differs from forms of violence, such as lynching, which are directed at individual members of a minority, while the imbalance of power in favor of the rioters distinguishes pogroms from other forms of riot ( food riots, race riots, or ' communal riots ' between evenly matched groups ), and again, the low level of organization separates them from vigilantism, terrorism, massacre and genocide ".

Moral panics are considered to include some persecutions of individuals or groups, such as the Red Scare, antisemitic pogroms, Stalinist purges, the witch-hunts of Renaissance Europe.

This theory refers to the belief among some that Chechens are primarily descended from Khazars or Jews ( specifically probably Mountain Jews, later supplemented by Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms ); or to a much more credible ( and moderate ) version of the theory, that Chechens are partially descended from Jews, and that the importance of this root of descent is no more than the influence of other peoples the Chechens absorbed throughout history ( Georgians, Kypchaks, Scythians, etc.

-" You Colonel, are an expert on matters of management and I am an expert on the rules of pogroms.

After almost two millennia of existence of the Jewish diaspora without a national state, the Zionist movement was founded in the late 19th century by secular Jews, largely as a response by Ashkenazi Jews to rising antisemitism in Europe, exemplified by the Dreyfus affair in France and the Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire.

Reviewing its uses in scholarly literature, historian Werner Bergmann proposes that pogroms be " defined as a unilateral, nongovernmental form of collective violence initiated by the majority population against a largely defenseless ethnic group, and occurring when the majority expect the state to provide them with no assistance in overcoming a ( perceived ) threat from the minority ," but adds that in western usage, the word's " anti-Semitic overtones " have been retained.

However, waves of pogroms, associated with the Holocaust ( see Romania during World War II and Holocaust in Romania ) as well as emigration to Israel during Romania's communist period largely diminished its presence.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

There is no universally accepted set of characteristics which define the term pogrom, and characterizations of a number of events as pogroms have been disputed by historians.

Paul Avrich writes, " Maknno's alleged anti-Semitism ... Charges of Jew-baiting and of anti-Jewish pogroms have come from every quarter, left, right, and center.

Jews meanwhile have tended to associate Christianity with various pogroms, or in better times, with the dangers of assimilation.

Another controversy concerned the pogroms of Jews, which have caused the United States to send a commission led by Henry Morgenthau, Sr. to investigate the matter.

Petliura is said to have once said, " it is a pity that pogroms take place, but they uphold the discipline of the army.

Since the 11th century, there have been instances of pogroms against Jews.

Forster personally encouraged pogroms and violence ; in a speech at the Prusinski Hotel in Wejherowo he agitated ethnic Germans to attack Poles by saying " We have to eliminate the lice ridden Poles, starting with those in the cradle … in your hands I give the fate of the Poles ; you can do with them what you want ".

After centuries of various restrictions, hostilities, and occasional pogroms, the Jews of Europe have been reduced to living in Ghettos.

However, there have been many incidents of religious intolerance which have resulted in riots and pogroms.

Over the centuries, the seasons of Lent and Holy Week were, for the Jews, times of fear and trepidation ; Christians have perpetrated some of the worst pogroms as they remembered the crucifixion of Christ, for which they blamed the Jews.

#* The Jews have been historically persecuted and Israel provides a refuge from such pogroms.

The commission, led by Henry Morgenthau, Sr., announced that the reports of pogroms were exaggerated, and in some cases may have even been fabricated.

Many other events in Poland were later found to have been exaggerated, especially by contemporary newspapers like New York Times, although serious abuses against the Jews, including pogroms, continued elsewhere, especially in the Ukraine.

The Dromman character in the story — who is clearly the villain but is nevertheless depicted with considerable empathy — thinks of his people's history of having been the target of " whipped up xenophobia, pogroms and concentration camps ", in one of which his own grandfather died.

Racism has been a motivating factor in social discrimination, racial segregation, hate speech and violence ( such as pogroms, genocides and ethnic cleansings ).

Due to cheap housing the East End of London and Stepney has been home to various immigrants who contributed to the culture and history of the area, such as the Huguenots in the 17th century, the Irish in the 18th century, Ashkenazi Jews fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe towards the end of the 19th century, and the Bangladeshi community settling in the East End from the 1960s.

Unlike Jews in most cities of Czarist Russia, those in Dvinsk had been spared from violent outbreaks of anti-Semitic pogroms.

The debate about Petliura's role in the pogroms has been a topic of dispute since Petliura's assassination and Schwartzbard's trial.

After an eight-day trial, he is acquitted by the jury, who has been convinced of Schwartzbard's just cause: the core of his defence was that he was avenging the deaths of victims of pogroms organized by Symon Petlura.

These acts were encouraged from the top and took many foreigners by surprise, preparing the public for a breakthrough in bilateral relations, which had been marred by decades of hostility over anti-Greek pogroms, territorial disputes and the situation in the divided island of Cyprus.

Igbos who ran for their lives during the pogroms and war returned to find their positions had been taken over ; and when the war was over the government did not feel any need to re-instate them, preferring to regard them as having resigned.

There had been at least two earlier comparable pogroms in the modern history of Iraqi Jews, in Basra in 1776 and in Baghdad in 1828.

One has been Islamized under the threat of physical extermination particularly during Armenian pogroms in 1896 and the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

Many newspapers condemned Kristallnacht, with some comparing it to the murderous pogroms incited by Imperial Russia in the 1880s.

To escape the pogroms incited by the nationalist and antisemitic organisation Union of the Russian People, the family emigrated to the United States in February 1906.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

The shops and businesses owned by Jewish tradespeople became the target of several pogroms, culminating in the " Reichskristallnacht " of November 9, 1938.

The Christians of Nazareth were protected during the pogroms of 1860s by Aghil Agha, the Bedouin leader who exercised control over the Galilee between 1845 and 1870.

The Sri Lankan Tamils people seek self-determination due to ethnic pogroms and discrimination by the majority Sinhala government's discrimination in language, education, jobs, and civil liberties.

Bernard de Clairvaux condemns these pogroms in strong terms, reminding the Crusaders that those who attacked the Jewish people during the previous Crusade came to a sorry end and were massacred to the last man by the Turks.

He instructed Nebe to organize pogroms ( i. e. " self-cleansing ") in the Bezirk Bialystok district, inspired by the warm welcome received from the Poles, when they chased out the Soviets along with their NKVD collaborators.

Historian David Engel supports this, writing that " there can be no logically or empirically compelling grounds for declaring that some particular episode does or does not merit the label ," but he offers that the majority of the incidents " habitually " described as pogroms took place in societies significantly divided by ethnicity and / or religion where the violence was committed by the higher-ranking group against a stereotyped lower-ranking group against whom they expressed some complaint, and with the belief that the law of the land would not be used to stop them.

Of the pogroms, about 40 % were perpetrated by the Ukrainian forces led by Symon Petliura, 25 % by the Ukrainian Green Army and various Ukrainian nationalist gangs, 17 % by the White Army, especially the forces of Anton Denikin.

A further 8. 5 % of Gergel's total figure is attributed to pogroms carried out by men of the Red Army-although these pogroms were not sanctioned by the Red Army leadership, and where Red Army troops had perpetrated pogroms, the Bolshevik high command subsequently disarmed entire regiments and executed individual pogromists to deter further outbreaks.