'A Mostly Peaceful Lynch Mob'

How media reported on a rampaging mob hunting for Jews to kill

What happens when there just aren’t enough Jews to kill?

The Russian republic of Dagestan has a population of three million but only about 800 Jewish families. The antisemites have a supply and demand issue.

So many raging Jew haters, with not nearly enough Jews to hate.

And so you can imagine the excitement when a social media channel in Dagestan with 65,000 subscribers announced that a plane was arriving from Tel Aviv with 45 passengers, 15 of them from Israel.

The fact that half of them were children was irrelevant. When you’re an anti-Semite, a Jew is a Jew.

The first antisemite didn’t hesitate to harass a child (Genesis 21v8-9) and thus it has ever been.

And so at the weekend, hundreds of Dagestan men raced to the local airport, breaking through security and surging onto the tarmac to surround the plane in hope of killing a Jew.

The disembarking passengers were quickly rushed back onto the aircraft and the doors were resealed to protect them from the mob who were shouting “Allah Akbar” as they charged forward.

Ah, the rich tapestry of multiculturalism.

A video show’s the pilot telling passengers …

“Please say seated and don’t try to open the plan’s door. There is an angry mob outside.”

Another video, of the mob outside, showed two boys brandishing knives proudly announcing that they have come to the airport “to kill Jews”.

The Dagestan mob were so desperate to find Jews that they even checked in the plane’s jet engines, just to be sure none were hiding there.

I think they call that the madness of crowds. But the mob was only just getting started, and the media hadn’t even begun …