The story is from the beginning of the #intifada and before #11September2001

It's also about a year before a massive anti Muslim #pogroms in #Gujarat that killed thousands of people. I never realised how close in time all that was, I knew it was all really this century, but I didn't realise it was all within a year.

The story is older than I thought, when I first saw it I wondered if it was getting attention to manufacture consent for the USA invasion of #Afghanistan but it's before that even hit triggered.

I also know questioning who named the #GujeratPogrom that, I think the name fits, but there is a big gap in both time and space between that and the antisemitism in Russia and the rest of Europe that originally got the name.

It would make more sense if the #WestBank #Pogroms came first. The Israeli left and right have been calling each other Nazis since before Israel existed. #BenGurion called #Jabotinsky "Vladimir Hitler" so it's entirely expected that settler violence gets that label from liberal Israelis, but the earliest mention I've seen of that is 2008?

#WestBankPogroms

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