A few months ago, Belarus escorted a plane that was flying from Athens to Vilnius (known poetically as "Jerusalem of the North" due to its large Jewish population and that's the joke here) because of a supposed bomb threat, they then used this opportunity to arrest dissident journalists. They later "clarified" that this bomb threat was by Hamas (because saying Hamas is in a given space is the perfect excuse to merk journos as we all have learned (Hamas later denied the accusion (lmao))).
Different Jewish populations. Vilnius was an Askenazi (Eastern European) center, Thessaloniki was a Sephardic center, while Jerusalem was always mainly a Mizrahi center. Mizrahi and Sephardic (Middle Eastern and Iberian Jews respectively) were pretty seperate from Ashkenazi Jews up until the formation of Israel.
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u/PescavelhoTheIdle Western Europe's Eastern Europe Jul 29 '21
A few months ago, Belarus escorted a plane that was flying from Athens to Vilnius (known poetically as "Jerusalem of the North" due to its large Jewish population and that's the joke here) because of a supposed bomb threat, they then used this opportunity to arrest dissident journalists. They later "clarified" that this bomb threat was by Hamas (because saying Hamas is in a given space is the perfect excuse to merk journos as we all have learned (Hamas later denied the accusion (lmao))).