Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel was a “pogrom.” The word is Russian.
It means an organized massacre of helpless Jews, including looting, rape and wanton destruction.
Waves of savage pogroms hit the Jews of Eastern Europe in the late 1880s and convinced many that the only way to freedom and liberation was a return to our ancient homeland.
That a bestial pogrom has ravaged communities here in modern Israel has shocked every Jew to the core.
