Sergey Melikov, the governor of the Russian Republic of Dagestan, labeled the people who stormed Makhachkala Airport on Sunday night as "animal-like cowards."
After news spread that a flight from Tel Aviv was landing in the Muslim-majority republic of Dagestan, local pro-Palestinian demonstrators stormed the airport in an attempted pogrom of the Jews arriving from Israel.
"You are pathetic animal-like cowards – not even beasts, but cattle, because you have no courage,” Melikov said, the Russian state-run news organization, RT, reported on Tuesday. “You’re brave only in a mob. You hide behind women. You hide your faces. What kind of men are you?”