Thanks for posting a link.
I'm certain you won't be surprised to learn that I'm looking into the incidents on that list. It's going to take some time to get through them all.
First things first. The definition of 'pogrom' being used in that article is
this:
The term pogrom has multiple meanings,[1] ascribed most often to the deliberate persecution of an ethnic or religious group either approved or condoned by the local authorities.[2] The term is usually applied to anti-Jewish violence in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries according to Encyclopædia Britannica,[2] extended to include any attacks against Jews and physical destruction of Jewish property as well as looting of Jewish homes and businesses, throughout history.
That's an awfully broad definition. I don't think a car full of teenagers throwing rocks at a light-up plastic menorah should count as a pogrom, but that's what this definition allows. I'm going to be using a less open-ended definition:
a pogrom is an officially sanctioned attack on a religious community and its members, typically and most especially against Jews.
Some of the incidents listed in that article are things that happened before the Ottoman Empire existed and some happened in lands that were not under Ottoman rule. For example, the Mawza Exile in Yemen occurred about 40 years after the local Yemeni leaders defeated the Ottomans and took control of the country.
The
Damascus Affair of 1840 is one hell of a story. Even the US was eventually caught up in it:
The Damascus Blood Libel, or Damascus Affair, was a notorious blood libel that originated in 1840. Christian anti-Semitism and popular Muslim anti-Jewish feelings came to a head that year and were aggravated by the political struggle of the European powers for influence in the Middle East. Syria was then ruled by Muhammad Ali of Egypt, who had rebelled against Turkey. France supported Ali, while the other powers - notably Austria and Great Britain - were interested in preserving Turkish power and in preventing the extention of French influence.
On February 5, 1840, Capuchin friar Thomas, an Italian who had long resided in Damascus, disappeared together with his Muslim servant Ibrahim ʿAmāra. The monk was known to have been involved in shady business and the two men were probably murdered by tradesmen with whom Thomas had quarreled. Nonetheless, the Capuchins immediately circulated news that Jews had murdered both men in order to use their blood for Passover.
As Catholics in Syria were officially under French protection, the investigation should have been conducted by the French consul per local law. But the consul, Ratti-Menton, allied himself with the accusers and supervised the investigation jointly with the governor-general Sherif Padia; and it was conducted in the most barbarous fashion. A barber, Solomon Negrin, was arbitrarily arrested and tortured until a "confession" was extorted from him, according to which the monk had been killed in the house of David Harari by seven Jews. The men whom he named were subsequently arrested; two of them died under torture, one of them converted to Islam in order to be spared and the others were made to "confess."
A Muslim servant in the service of David Harari related under duress that Ibrahim ʿAmāra was killed in the house of Meir Farhi, in the presence of Farhi and other Jewish notables. Most of those mentioned were arrested, but one of them, Isaac Levi Picciotto, was an Austrian citizen and under the protection of the Austrian consul. His citizenship eventually led to the intervention of Austria, England and the United States in the affair.
More than one source I found states that the blood libel leveled at Jews by French Christians, and widely reported in European newspapers as though it had been confirmed to be true, was both something new in Muslim lands and part of a rising tide of European anti-Semitism. And please note that Syria at the time was not under Ottoman rule.
Next listed are two massacres in Aleppo, the first in 1850 and the second in 1875. I haven't found any evidence Jews were targeted in 1850. Wikipedia says the
Massacre of Aleppo (1850) was a 2-day riot by Muslims against Christians fueled by economic disruptions, taxes, and rising European influence. I'm not sure why it's listed as an anti-Jewish incident, unless some Jewish owned property was damaged so it's being counted as a pogrom.
The
Jewish Virtual Library article on Aleppo says in 1875 "a blood libel was spread about the Jews of Aleppo; however, the missing Armenian boy, whose absence had provided the charge, was found in a nearby village." I can't find any reference to victims or property damage, although I did find a book,
Trials of the Diaspora, that says the Pasha of Aleppo sent troops to guard the Jewish Quarter.
So far I'm not seeing anything that refutes my argument that Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived peacefully side by side in Palestine for nearly all of the time the Ottoman Turks ruled the area. I will keep going through that list, though. Perhaps there's something in there that calls it into question.
