Ethnic violence

Ethnic violence (also known as ethnic terrorism or ethnically-motivated terrorism) refers to violence expressly motivated by ethnic hatred. It is commonly related to political violence, and often the terms are interchangeable, or one is used as a pretext for the other when politically expedient.

"Racist terrorism" is a form of ethnic violence dominated by overt racism and xenophobic reactionism. This form typically involves attacks on minorities, and is associated with right-wing extremism.

Racial supremacist groups such as Neo-Nazis epitomize ethnic terrorists, though other violent ethnic supremacist groups qualify.

Violent ethnic rivalry is the subject matter of Jewish sociologist Ludwig Gumplowicz's Der Rassenkampf ("Struggle of the Races", 1909); and more recently of Amy Chua's notable study, World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability; and Kevin B. MacDonald's controversial works on the Darwinian-evolutionary politics of Judaism, which have been called anti-Semitic and white-supremacist.

Examples

• PKK
• Pogrom
• Combat 18, United Kingdom
• The Order, United States
• Ku Klux Klan, United States
• Hammerskins, International
• Serb Paramilitary groups i.e. Arkan's White tigers and many more
• The Croatian Ustaše headed by Ante Pavelić
• APLA, South Africa
• Death Angels, United States
• MLNQ
• Don Black (nationalist) and Operation Red Dog
• Cronulla Race Riots in Sydney, 2005
• 2006 Moscow market bombing, Russia
• Riots in Kondopoga, Karelia, Russia in 2006
• The Hedvig Malina-case
• The Dashnaks, EOKA and Czarist Russia
• Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), mapuche terrorist group