An opinion piece on Purim, antisemitism, diaspora, and survival as a people.

[Richard D]

2. Just for remembrance. A partial list of all who tried to kill us and failed . . .

. . . Most of them are no longer walking the earth. And here we still are, the eternal people.

Ancient Egypt (Pharaoh’s decree)
Assyrian Exile (722 BCE)
Babylonian Exile (586 BCE)
Persian Attempted Genocide (Haman, ~480 BCE)
Greek Seleucid Persecution (167-160 BCE)
Roman Destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE)
Bar Kokhba Revolt Suppression (132-136 CE)
Byzantine Persecutions (4th-7th Century CE)
Islamic Conquests (7th-12th Century CE)
Almohad Persecutions in Spain and North Africa (12th Century)
First Crusade Massacres (1096)
Second Crusade Massacres (1147)
Third Crusade Persecutions (1189-1192)
Expulsion from England (1290)
French Expulsions (1182, 1306, 1322, 1394)
Black Death Persecutions (1348-1351)
Spanish Inquisition and Expulsion (1492)
Portuguese Expulsion (1497)
Persecutions in the Papal States (16th-19th Century)
Khmelnytsky Massacres (1648-1657)
Russian Empire Pogroms (19th-Early 20th Century)
Hep-Hep Riots (1819, Germany)
Damascus Blood Libel (1840)
First Congress of Damascus (1860)
Persian Anti-Jewish Persecutions (19th Century)
Moroccan Pogroms (19th-20th Century)
Ottoman Empire Persecutions (Late 19th Century)
Kishinev Pogroms (1903, 1905)
Odessa Pogroms (1905)
Baku Pogrom (1905)
Lviv Pogroms (1914, 1918, 1941)
Hungarian White Terror (1919)
Polish Anti-Jewish Riots (1918-1939)
Hebron Massacre (1929)
Safed Massacre (1929)
Farhud Pogrom (1941, Iraq)
Holocaust (1933-1945)
Kielce Pogrom (1946)
Anti-Jewish Riots in Libya (1945, 1948, 1967)
Egyptian Persecution and Expulsion (1948-1956)
Moroccan Anti-Jewish Riots (1948, 1954, 1967)
Iraqi Jewish Persecutions (1950-1970)
Yemenite Jewish Persecutions (1947-1970)
Pogrom in Aleppo (1947)
Pogrom in Cairo (1945)
Pogrom in Tripoli (1945)
Expulsion of Jews from Arab Countries (1948-1970s)
Pogrom in Oujda and Jerada (1948)
Baghdad Hangings (1969)
Iranian Jewish Persecutions (1979-Present)
Buenos Aires Bombing (1992, 1994)
Palestinian Terrorist Attacks (20th-21st Century)
Resurgent Antisemitic Attacks in Europe and U.S. (2000s-Present)