When Fatima Abdulkarim arrived in her native republic of Dagestan early on Sunday, she had hoped to take care of business matters, visit family and not least importantly obtain a permit to hold a rally in support of Palestine in the region’s capital Makhachkala. “We applied for a protest permit to ensure that everything would go peacefully and we would be able to express our sympathies and support for the people of Palestine by carrying flags and slogans, but without inciting interethnic hatred,” said Abdulkarim, a Moscow-based human rights lawyer. The Makhachkala protest would have been Abdulkarim’s second event in support of civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip, having co-organized a solidarity event near the Palestinian Embassy in Moscow earlier this month. But the peaceful rally she had envisioned was not meant to happen. On Sunday evening a mob of as many as 1,200 young local men stormed Makhachkala’s airport, seeking to attack Jews and Israelis rumored to ha
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