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[-] hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Palestine? Source? "Pogram" doesn't sound like a very Arab word.

The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement).

Oh yeah cuz it's not. So please send some sources for what you're referring to

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Notice the sentence right above that:

A pogrom[a] is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews.[1] The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement).

Arabs wouldn't have called something like the 1929 Palestine riots a "pogrom" or a "riot", because they didn't speak English, French, Yiddish, or Russian. Things have different names in different languages. They call it the Thawrat al-Burāq.

In English, we might use either the more specific Russian loanword pogrom, or the more general French loanwords riot or massacre. Labeling something a riot doesn't mean it has to have been done by the French, and labeling something a pogrom doesn't mean it has to have been done by the Russians, even if that's the origin of the loanword...

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