The furore over the Israel-Hamas war has reached all the way to Birobidzhan in Russia’s Far East, the world’s only autonomous Jewish territory outside Israel, after a local newspaper published its support for the Palestinian cause. FRANCE 24 examines the history of this remote region – which in many ways is “Jewish” and “autonomous” in name only – and how it came to be.
In Russia’s little-known region of Birobidzhan last week, the local newspaper Nabat posted an online banner that read, "No to the aggression of the Israeli military against the Gaza Strip! Freedom to the people of Palestine!"
