An online news outlet in the Russian Far Easts Jewish autonomous district has stirredcontroversy for speaking out in support of Palestine following the deadly Hamas militant attack on Israel and Israels retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip.A banner on Nabats homepage reads No to the aggression of the Israeli military against the Gaza Strip! Freedom to the people of Palestine!Nabat, which describes itself as anindependent socialist online newspaper, is based in the regional capital of Birobidzhan some 8,000 kilometers east of Moscow.In an opinion piece published Friday, Nabat editor-in-chief Vladimir Sakharovsky said the publication has started receiving threats for its principled position against the imperialist aggression of the Israeli military.We wont remove or delete anything, wrote Sakharovsky, who also serves as a deputy in Birobidzhans city legislative assembly.He stressed that Nabat is in no way endorsing Hamas atrocities.[Nabat expresses solidarity] not with terrorists and Islamic radicals, but with ordinary people who endure periodic aggression from the Israeli military.He characterized Nabats critics as those who once traded the Far East for the Middle East in search of paradise, as well as adherents of Zionist propaganda.Russias sparsely populated Jewish autonomous district was established near the border with China by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in 1928.