Dagestan: Pogrom

So there was a rumor of a flight from Tel Aviv to Makhachkala, Dagestan. Flight is a regular occurrence and takes people back and forth. The route avoids European airspace that prevents Russian airlines from flying.

The rumor was that the flight was filled with Israeli refugees. Fun fact: no Jewish refugee would be insane enough to settle in Dagestan. However, there is a small Jewish community. Before we get to them, first let’s look at the attempted Pogrom:

Dagestanis check passengers' passports in cars leaving the airport, looking for people who have flown in from Israel. The crowd continues to be at the airport. No one is stopping her.

Meanwhile, in Chechnya, neighboring Dagestan, officials spoke out against anti-Semitic actions in the North Caucasus. Thus, the Minister of National Policy of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, noted that “we do not have the right to project the actions of the criminal leadership of Israel onto all Jews in the broad sense of the word. <…> We, residents of the Chechen Republic, have experienced the consequences of military conflicts, when across the country and throughout the world they began to label all representatives of our nationality as bandits and terrorists.”

According to Dudayev, attacks on Jews “will play into the hands of our enemies, who are deliberately shaking the world in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” The minister threatened that new anti-Semitic actions would be prosecuted.