During the violence of 1905, Jewish mobs in Odessa shot non-Jewish policemen.
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- 4 contradict2 support
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Official accounts cited in the sources say Jewish youths in the 1905 Odessa demonstrations attacked and disarmed policemen, and two policemen were reported killed, which partly supports the claim.
What was said
… It really became a huge problem. They were getting shot all over the place and blown up, but also mob actions all over Chernigov and in Moscow itself during the violence of 1905. Odessa was one of the worst because they had the mayor's office, and they were simply shooting non-Jewish policemen. Orthodox people in that city became rebels and acted accordingly, and any act from them against the provisional government of Odessa was seen as an anti-Semitic pogrom. Peasants, you know, reacted violently in the, in the rural areas. …
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Contradicts. The sources describe the Odessa violence as an anti-Jewish pogrom in which the police and unskilled day laborers were the main perpetrators, and Jewish victims made up the large majority of the dead, undermining the claim's framing of Jewish mobs as the aggressors.[2][3][4][5]
Supports. Official accounts, as cited in the Weinberg and Cooperman-related sources, state that mobs of demonstrators, primarily Jewish youths, viciously attacked and disarmed policemen during the October 1905 violence in Odessa.[1][5][6]
Supports. Police reports cited by these sources say two policemen were killed, ten wounded and twenty-two disarmed on the afternoon of the violence, though the reports do not specify the perpetrators' ethnicity or the weapons used.[1][5]
Context. No source states that Jewish mobs shot policemen; the sources describe policemen being attacked, disarmed and killed without specifying who fired, so the 'shooting' element is not established.[1][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1The pogrom of 1905 in Odessafaculty.history.umd.edu · primary source · cited for: supports, context
- 2Workers, pogroms, and the 1905 revolution in Odessanli.org.il · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Odessa pogroms - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Odessa: A History, 1794-1914 - Patricia Herlihy - Google Booksbooks.google.cat · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 51905: Russia's Encounter with Revolution and ...academic.oup.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 6Workers, Pogroms, and the 1905 Revolution in Odessapsi203.cankaya.edu.tr · not rated · cited for: supports, context
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