What the records say
- When
- 2 Nov 1945 – 3 Nov 1945
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 10
- Coordinates
- 30.62° N, 30.56° E
- Description
- Egyptian Nationalist Outbreak of Anti-Semitic Character as part of the wave of violence aimed at Jews in the Arab world. Jews were murdered and injured. Synagogues, Jewish school, nursing homes were burned and over 100 Jewish businesses were looted
- Injured
- 300
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1945 anti-Jewish riots in Egypt
The Balfour Day riots took place in Egypt on 2 and 3 November 1945. The riots began as anti-Jewish demonstrations on the 28th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration and were organised by the right-wing Young Egypt Party and Hassan al-Banna's Muslim Brotherhood.
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- Wikidata: riots, protests, strikes and revoltsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Каирский погром на волне антиеврейских настроений в арабском мире”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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