Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field seeking passengers arriving from Tel Aviv, Israel, according to Russian news agencies and social media postings.

Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.

Russian news reports said the crowd surrounded the airliner, which belonged to Russian carrier Red Wings.

Authorities closed the airport in Makhachkala, the capital of the predominantly Muslim region, and police converged on the facility. Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
    14311·
    1 year ago

    Jew-hate is alive and well in the country purporting to be stamping out neo-nazis in Ukraine. The irony needs no seasoning.

    • trebuchet@lemmy.mlEnglish
      402·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t seem like neo-Nazism in this case but rather the long standing hate by Muslims if it makes any difference. From the news coverage I’ve seen of this, it seems like it was a mob of Muslims waving Palestinian flags.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      262·
      1 year ago

      Also, pretending that they care about Arabs, who we know they hate as much or worse than Jews.

    • xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      As far as I understand; nazi, in russian, translates to “western European russophobic”. I suspect many Russians are scarcely aware that Nazi Germany did something to Jews.

  • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
    903·
    1 year ago

    Didnt russia invade ukraine because there were nazis in the country that need to be fleshed out or something? Is it time russia invades russia?

        • GreenM@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Don’t they have Russian “passport” ? How can you tell Russian apart? Are e.g Siberians also not Russians ?

          • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            They are citizens of Russia, but not Russians ethnically. Just like a Japanese person with a US passport is not suddenly white person of European descent.

            • GreenM@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Japanese who is also US citizen is American .
              Also Russian is not race , Western Russian are mostly Caucasian, which is probably what you call white person of European decent. So according to your logic , There are no Russians in Russia 😅 👍

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      113·
      1 year ago

      Dagestani people are mostly Sunni Muslim. So I would call the group in this instance Islamic extremists, or just conservative Muslims, and not Nazis. Antisemitism is kind of baked into the Quran, sadly. Not to mention modern history between the two groups kind of fuels that fire.

      That’s not to say that there aren’t actual Nazis in Russia, and there may have even been a few involved here. To be fair, its getting hard to tell the difference between Nazis, and extremely conservative people of most every religious denomination nowadays. So I guess your point still stands.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        72·
        1 year ago

        Not totally true. Arab Muslims and Arab Jews lived mostly peacefully together for many hundreds of years. It’s like saying antisemitism is baked into the Bible. It sortof is, but not really. You have to stretch things and manipulate it to do that, and try to force people to care. Most people just want to live their lives. Making any of this Israel stuff about religion just plays into Israel’s playbook. Arab Jews lived in that region without murdering the Muslims for a long time. It’s the European colonial Zionists that started murdering and saying Muslims couldn’t live there with them peacefully.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          43·
          1 year ago

          I would also absolutely say that antisemitism is baked into the Bible. Antisemitism is baked into a lot of things throughout history, too. I am not trying to say that all Muslims and Christians are antisemitic, but their writings most definitely are, and it gives people an excuse to be that way whenever is convenient. Also, none of this excuses what Israel has done and is doing to Gaza.

          • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            It really depends on the notion of “Jews in general” vs “a particular group of Jews”. The Quran seems to mostly say things about a particular batch of Jews. The most general comment about I can find in the Quran actually discussed by a rabbi in comedic fashion. The same rabbi also has TONS of examples of antisemitism in the New Testament but seems to have a very high opinion of Islam.

            • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              This was an interesting discussion, thanks for posting. I learned a bit about the actual history behind that passage, and it cleared up some of my own misunderstanding as a heathen from a Muslim family. I think the problem lies in the fact that conservative Muslims can still use those passages to justify antisemitism, but that’s not unique to Islam obviously.

              These books are so vague and out of touch with the modern world that people can use them to construct any sort of meaning that they want to it seems. It’s the only explanation for why some of the followers can be all about peace and harmony, and other followers of the same book are focused on doom and war.

              • mightyfoolish@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                I feel like it mostly comes to hypocrisy and impatience. As individuals we decide on the amount we absorb of a religion into our daily lives. I would say that those who absorb just enough religion to bolster the narratives and views they already built are misusing an important tool. For instance, if you hated a particular group (in this case: Jews), you could simply stop narrating the following after the first sentence:

                In the first generation of Islam, many efforts were made to establish a believing community with the Jews; and one by one, each of these [Arabian] Jewish tribes betrayed those Muslims. However, when those same Muslims took over Jerusalem, the prohibition of Jews in Jerusalem was lifted in order to let Jews worship in Jerusalem. It’s obvious that the first generation of Muslims did not blame all Jews for the betrayal of SEVERAL tribes.

    • jasory@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      So you literally no nothing about recent Russian history? Russia was at war in Dagestan with Chechen Islamist militias in 1999.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    347·
    1 year ago

    So pogroms are back, that’s probably not a great sign for the species

    • laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      332·
      1 year ago

      Bruh, you think race riots ever went away. They’ve just been gone for the Jews. There was literally a race war between Hindus and Christians in Manipur, India earlier this year. Muslims have been actively cleansed in Burma for a half decade now. There was a decades long war between the Sinhalese and Tamil people in Sri Lanka. There were the 2002 Gujrat Riots where 2000 Muslims were killed where the government condoned the violence and actively refused to intervene. The same man is in charge of India now with the largest mandate ever.

  • Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    This is in the Dagestan Republic, which is mostly Muslim. While many of the mostly-Christian Russians are indeed anti-Semitic these days (indeed, in regards to the war in Ukraine I’ve seen some comment on social media about how “it’s DA JOOOOOZ” because Zelensky is a Jew and America has the second-largest Jewish population after Israel), this is a case of religious extremism by people brainwashed by Arab countries’ propaganda, who think all Israelis are evil. To be completely fair though, Ruzzia pretending to care about Palestinians probably didn’t help either.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    81·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of people stormed into the main airport in Russia’s Dagestan region and onto the landing field Sunday, chanting antisemitic slogans and seeking passengers arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, Russian news agencies and social media reported.

    Antisemitic slogans can be heard being shouted and some in the crowd examined the passports of arriving passengers, apparently in an attempt to identify those who were Israeli.

    The Ministry of Internal Affairs for Russia’s North Caucasian Federal District, where Dagestan is located, said that CCTV footage would be used to establish the identities of those who stormed the airport and that those involved would be brought to justice.

    Federal authorities and international organizations are making every effort to bring about a ceasefire against Gaza civilians … we urge residents of the republic not to succumb to the provocations of destructive groups and not to create panic in society,” the Dagestani government wrote on Telegram.

    He called the protests a “knife in the backs of those who gave their lives for the security of the Motherland,” referring to the 1999 war in Dagestan and troops currently fighting in Ukraine.

    Russia’s civilian aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, later reported that the airfield had been cleared, but that the airport would remain closed to incoming aircraft until Nov. 6.

    The original article contains 529 words, the summary contains 217 words. Saved 59%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • Lycerius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Do you think airports are screened for religious make up of the city they’re in?

      • hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.questEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        In the wake of the rampage, Israel’s National Security Council and the Foreign Ministry said they have updated the travel warning to the highest Level 4 for Dagestan and other regions in southern Russia, advising Israelis to avoid visiting them and urging all those currently there to leave.

        I mean that one will be now.

        I was under the impression it was actually a plane full of refugees. I’m confused reading the article a second time because they don’t call it a commercial flight. If it was an organized refugee effort then yes the orgs arranging refuge have a responsibility to do their due diligence to make sure the refugees will be safe.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      92·
      1 year ago

      Are we supposed to take a random video about some dude on Twitter as scriptural authority here?

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re dumb and wrong. Judaism is considered one of the religions of the book which are considered the least wrong other religions… and the believers supposed to be offered additional privileges and tolerated.

      But that’s all moot because what holy scriptures say is often disregarded if inconvenient by all modern religions. Modern animosity is politically born - the antisemitism you’ll see in places like Palestine is because a people were forceably displaced… if there wasn’t a difference in religion some other excuse would be found to fuel hatred.

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2025·
    1 year ago

    Journalist really need to acquire the knowledge of Arabs being also a Semitic population. The exclusive use of the Semitic label for Israel and the Jews in general is just one more disgrace in this whole story.

      • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
        914·
        1 year ago

        So I am a nerd and being downvoted for pointing this obvious mistake?

        It is like in the 2nd chapter of the fairytale the Israelis and all the others in the region based all their lore on. And it is relevant to the article since in it it’s stated that there were Palestinian flags brought by the protesters.

    • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      95·
      1 year ago

      Antisemitism refers to discrimination against Jews, not any semitic people. Also, there aren’t any Arabs mentioned in the article.

      • TheDankHold@kbin.social
        62·
        1 year ago

        Why should other Semitic people be excluded from the definition? It removes a way to identify prejudice against those other Semitic groups.

        • jasory@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Because anti-Semitism has a German origin and has been used primarily in the West to refer to discrimination against Jewish people.

          The fact that it doesn’t cover anti-Iraqi or Palestinian sentiment, does not mean that you can’t identify them, which you are so bizarrely claiming.

          • TheDankHold@kbin.social
            11·
            1 year ago

            I said it “removes a way” to do that. Not that it removes any ability to. Try to represent peoples arguments factually next time please.

            Even though double speak removed the idea of the word “bad”, they could still try to express the same idea with “ungood” after all. Language shapes how we view the world because it’s how we share our experiences.

            • jasory@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              Nope, just like George Orwell you are asserting an unsupported form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

              “Doublespeak” doesn’t fundamentally change how people think, it is just deception by obfuscation.

              The fact that the word anti-Semitism doesn’t include anti-Arab sentiments is not the cause of why anti-Arab sentiments are not as criticised. The Holocaust is why anti-Semitism (the concept and by extension the word) holds a place of special concern. (And Islamic terrorist incidents are why anti-Arab sentiments are more accepted).

        • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m not saying it necessarily should be that way, but that’s just how the word has been used historically and in the present. Antisemitism has been different from other forms of racism because it is hatred that is often based on conspiracy theories about Jews. Discrimination against Arabs would usually fall under islamophobia (even though not all Arabs are Muslim), or other words like anti-arabism or anti-arab sentiment.