Brendan O’Neill Brendan O’Neill

Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’

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So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of London on Saturday. ‘From London to Gaza, we’ll have an intifada’, they yelled. And now it’s happening, in Dagestan, where last night there was a violent hounding of Israelis arriving in the country by mobs shouting ‘Free Palestine’.

What took place at the airport in Makhachkala was truly chilling. Huge numbers of people, some waving the Palestinian flag and holding anti-Israel placards, stormed the airport after hearing that a flight from Tel Aviv was on its way. They were hunting for Jews. It was a pogrom under the auspices of ‘Palestine solidarity’.

There is chilling footage of a man pleading with the mob, begging them to believe he is not a Jew. The pogromists later besieged a hotel after hearing rumours that there were Jews there. Watching the marauding men calling for Jews to come out, you had to remind yourself that it is 2023.

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