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Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel (apnews.com)

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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.

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[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 133 points 8 months 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.ml 38 points 8 months 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.

[-] StalksEveryone@futurology.today 15 points 8 months ago

“We are the victims!” while they threaten and attack everyone that doesn’t agree

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

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

[-] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 months 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.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Nazi more or less translates to "anyone who is against us, like the Germans".

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

Dagestani under Kadyrov are their own kind. I've seen some public signs of support to Hamas. I have no doubts it's orchestrated by local administration.

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[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 87 points 8 months 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?

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Russia has a long fucking history of invading “Russia”.

[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

It’s Russians all the way down…

[-] Aux@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

They're not Russians.

[-] Epilektoi_Hoplitai@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Русский, no — Российский, yes.

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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

If you beleive Putin, Russia invaded Russia by invading Ukraine!

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.zip 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

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[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

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

[-] laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 8 months 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.

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[-] TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml 22 points 8 months ago

The article I read yesterday, mention a viral rumor about Israel coming to annex Dagestan.

[-] SonnyVabitch@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Dagestan has no monopoly on stupid people.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It was an attack, it's just you can't really make Doncaster any worse so no one noticed.

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Christ on a shitstick.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

This sounds so absolutely fucked to literally anyone who doesn't live in Dagestan. I've pored over maps of Russia and I didn't even know that existed.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 months ago

I have serious concerns about the people who believe shit like that. Guys, the teletubbies are coming to take over Wisconsin!

[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

If I saw a teletubby crashing through the bushes gargling at me I’d run like fuck.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Do not look up Mr. Blobby...

If I can describe his voice it would be "imagine all the unbaptized babies of hell speaking in unison".

[-] FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If its that green one, I'm charging at it like a bull...

i want that fucken purse

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago

Wtf.

[-] Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[-] goat@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

reminds me of something

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 8 months 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.

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