Pogroms

Historically, anti-Semitism has ranged from hate speech and discrimination against individual Jewish people to organized pogroms and military attacks on entire Jewish communities.

George R. R. Martin gets the brutality of the Middle Ages right, but never tackles the mobs, riots, pogroms, and general mass psychology of the time.

Nicholas II was responsible, through inaction if nothing else, for a wave of pogroms that killed countless Jews, none of whom are treated as saints or martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church.

It was Nicholas II's job to stop the pogroms, and he had the ability to do so.

Nicholas II loved pogroms because they distracted the people from his many crimes while inflicting harm on a community that tended to oppose his rule.

Many Jews see the pogroms happening around the world as a vindication of Zionism.

They were driven out by the pogroms, but they've done well.