As a violent mob rampaged through an airport in Dagestan, Russia, on Sunday in search of Jews, U.S. news headlines made the attempted pogrom sound like a rowdy political protest.
It was the media’s latest failure to frankly report on an international surge of anti-Semitism in response to Israel’s war of self-defense against Hamas.
Washington Post: “Protesters Storm Russian Airport To Try To Block Plane From Tel Aviv”
New York Times: “Mob Storms Plane Arriving in Russia From Tel Aviv, Authorities Say”
Associated Press: “Crowd Storms Russian Airport To Protest Flight From Israel”
CNN: “At Least 10 Injured as Crowd Storms Russian Airport After Flight Arrives From Tel Aviv, Officials Say.”
Reuters: “Police Take Control of Russia’s Dagestan Airport After Anti-Israeli Protests.”
Amid backlash, some of the outlets improved their headlines overnight to at least allude to the mob’s targeting of Jews.
The media had enough information to get it right the first time. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and CNN cited already-circulating social media footage that clearly showed the mob was hunting Jews.
A number of foreign outlets managed to mention Jews in their initial headlines on Sunday.
The Jerusalem Post reported that “the pilots [of the flight from Tel Aviv to Dagestan] were warned of the mob and rerouted the plane to land at a nearby airport. The rioters reached that one as well. The flight staff ordered the locking of all aircraft exits, while security forces closed the area off. Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia said all aircraft were diverted to other airports. A security source said that a small number of Israelis and Jews were secured in the airport, and were set to be evacuated to Moscow ‘at the earliest convenience.'”
More than 20 people were reportedly injured and 60 members of the mob were arrested.
The widespread soft-pedaling of news about the Dagestan airport riot came days after similar coverage of an anti-Semitic protest at Cooper Union College in New York City, during which activists tried to force their way into a locked library where Jewish students were hiding from them.
New York Times: “Israel-Hamas War Protest Leads to Tense Scene at Cooper Union Library”
CBS News: “Pro-Palestinian Rally at Cooper Union Leads to Tense Moments at School Library”
Daily Beast: “Cooper Union Pro-Israel Students Locked in Library During Tense Protest”
By contrast, earlier this month, news outlets rushed to accuse the Jews of a massacre of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital that was actually the fault of Islamist terrorists.
Even well into Monday morning, the New York Times—which employs open anti-Semites to cover the Israel-Hamas war—was not prominently mentioning Jews in its reporting on the anti-Semitic rampage.
Just before 5 p.m., the newspaper of record updated its follow-up story to add references to Jews to the headline.
New York Times: “Riot Over Plane From Israel Alarms Jews and Draws Condemnation: A mob in the Russian republic of Dagestan stormed runways looking for a flight carrying Jewish passengers. The episode highlighted the threat of ethnic strife in Russia.”
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