Israel’s 21st-century version of pogrom

The current sequence of atrocities and counter-atrocities began with a big Israeli raid in the Palestinian city of Nablus last week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist partners are helping him subordinate court decisions to government veto. In return, he will let them quickly expand the Jewish settlements in the occupied territories and crush any Arab protests ruthlessly, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

March 1, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—The dictionary definition of pogrom is “an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, particularly that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” So, there is something deeply stran...

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