During the September 1903 riots in Chisinau, Jewish self-defense units attacked Russians.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim inverts the historical record: the 1903 Kishinev/Chisinau pogrom was an assault by rioters on Jews, and the Jewish self-defense units documented in the sources defended Jews rather than attacking Russians. The September 1903 event was in Homel, not Chisinau, and sources describe Jewish self-defense there as resistance to attackers.
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… And let me let me quote the Vilnius Gazette here from the Baltics, and I quoted that from Platonov, that same book of his. Here's what they wrote at the time: In Chisinau, the September 1903 riots saw the Jewish provocateurs and their well-armed self-defense units showing no care about the safety of ordinary Jews, organized to attack Russians and cause disorder. One thug, Pinkish Jasevsky, tried to shoot the Russian writer Krasovski with a revolver. Unfortunately, the wound wasn't serious, and the perpetrator was arrested by the Russian people and punished by the court. Now, he says "Russian people" explicitly. …
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Contradicts. Sources on the Kishinev/Chisinau pogrom describe Jewish self-defense groups as defending women, children, and synagogues against rioters, not attacking Russians.[2][3]
Contradicts. The second pogrom in September 1903 took place in Homel (Mahilyow province), where Jewish self-defense units resisted attackers and limited the damage, not in Chisinau.[4]
Contradicts. The 1903 Chisinau pogrom is recorded as a mob attack on Jews that killed 49 and injured hundreds, with the police and soldiers letting it happen.[1][5][6]
Context. Times of Israel notes the attackers justified their assault as self-defense, a rhetorical framing that the sources do not adopt as fact.[3]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 5 not rated
- 1Vandals daub swastikas on Jewish gravestones in Moldovareuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2Chişinău, Moldova (Pages 73-94) - JewishGenjewishgen.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3How a small pogrom in Russia changed the course of historytimesofisrael.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 4Pogroms in Imperial Russia | Law | Research Starters - EBSCOebsco.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5History of the Jews in Chișinău - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 6The Modern State of Israel · Teach Jewish Historyteachjewishhistory.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
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