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Antiziganism

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Antiziganism, or antigypsyism, is the fear or hatred of the Roma.[1] Antiziganism has been common in Europe since the Middle Ages.[2]

Persecution

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The Roma are discriminated against in many countries.[3][4] They were subject to mass murder on a number of occasions as well.[3][4]

Modern period

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Between the 1500s and the 1700s, Romani men could be hanged without a trial in many countries.[3] Muslim Roma reportedly face double discrimination – antiziganism and alleged Islamophobia.[5][better source needed]

Smears against the Roma are common, especially in European countries.[3][4] Unfortunately, the Roma are blamed just as the Jewish people[6] for social problems and wrongdoings of others.[3][4] For instance, some sources claimed that Talat Pasha who belogend to the Turks from Bulgaria, have been the son of a Romani mother and a Pomak father, which is not true. He is found to have nothing to do with the Roma from Bulgaria. This is done to deny his Turkish origins and to blame the Roma.[source?]

Genocide

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In WWII, while the Holocaust was happening, the Roma were also subject to genocide by Nazi Germany, his allied countries and local collaborators in occupied territories.[7] Historians estimated that 250,000~500,000 Roma had been killed during WWII.[8][9]

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References

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    • "Working definition of antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination". International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Retrieved December 11, 2024. Antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination is a manifestation of individual expressions and acts as well as institutional policies and practices of marginalization, exclusion, physical violence, devaluation of Roma cultures and lifestyles, and hate speech directed at Roma as well as other individuals and groups perceived, stigmatized, or persecuted during the Nazi era, and still today, as "Gypsies."
    • "About antiziganism". Kommissionen mot Antiziganism. Retrieved December 11, 2024. Antiziganism or anti-Gypsyism, is the particular racist structure, ideology and hostile prejudice targeted at Roma. It seeks to dehumanise, alienate and drive away Roma precisely because they are Roma.
    • Antiziganism: What's in a Word?. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. March 18, 2015. ISBN 1-4438-7226-1. Retrieved June 1, 2021.
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  3. "Muslimische Roma: Doppelte Diskriminierung?".