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The former British Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has expressed his disgust at “images of an antisemitic mob in Dagestan," in a social media post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
An airport in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala was closed on Sunday after a group of people poured onto the runway.
Media reports from the area said that demonstrators denouncing Israel's attacks in Gaza, many waving Palestinian flags, had thronged the airport.
Reports in Israeli media state that the demonstrators turned up at the airport as a flight had been due to land from Tel Aviv.
“The global rise in antisemitism & Islamophobia is terrifying,” said Corbyn.
"Hatred does nothing to generate solidarity or bring about peace. We cannot lose our common humanity. In times of darkness, it's all we have left," he added.
Corbyn, who led the Labour party from 2015 to 2019, has been one of the few voices in British politics to call for an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation in Israel's war on Gaza.
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov blamed the riots in Dagestan on "outside interference" in the country seeking to divide Russian society.
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