On 2 November, 2001, some 50 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Baku were desecrated. This even may have had some connection to the closing down of a number of mosques in recent weeks by the Azerbijani government because of the strengthening of radical Islam.
![](https://antisemitism.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/457456876789-768x511.jpg)