There is no universally accepted set of characteristics which define the term pogrom . Klier writes that " when applied indiscriminately to events in Eastern Europe , the term can be misleading , the more so when it implies that ' pogroms ' were regular events in the region and that they always shared common features . " Use of the term pogrom to refer to events in 1918 – 19 in Polish cities including Kielce , Pinsk and Lwów , was specifically avoided in the 1919 Morgenthau Report and the word " excesses " was used instead because the authors argued that the use of the term " pogrom " required a situation to be antisemitic rather than political in nature , which meant that it was inapplicable to the conditions existing in a war zone , and media use of the term pogrom to refer to the 1991 Crown Heights riot caused public controversy . In 2008 , two separate attacks in the West Bank by Israeli Jewish settlers on Palestinian Arabs were characterized as pogroms by then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert
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