This Was Not a Pogrom From: The Washington Post | Date: September 10, 2005 | Copyright 2005 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Eugene Robinson believes that "the tumult in the Gaza Strip looks like nothing less than a pogrom" ["Betrayed in Gaza," op-ed, Aug. 19]. This statement could be made only by someone who has little idea of what a real pogrom entailed.

Whether referring to the 1881 events in the Russian empire, for which the word was first used, or more broadly to analogous earlier events (in the Rhineland in 1096, the Iberian Peninsula in 1391, eastern Poland in 1648-49), a "pogrom" did not entail unarm...

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