An anti-government rally in Kiev descended into anti-Semitism on Sunday when speakers called for the end of what they asserted is Jewish control over the Ukrainian government and accused Israel of seeking to colonize their country.

“Ukraine found itself in a grip of the world Zionist conspiracy. We are fed up with this power with President Valtsman and [Parliament] speaker Groisman and other Jew trash,” one of the speakers asserted, referring to an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that identifies President Petro Poroshenko as a hidden Jew.

“We are Ukrainians and our state is Ukraine. We have to rule,” he added.

Another speaker, who said he was wounded during the Maidan Revolution, called Poroshenko a “kike” and accused him of neglecting those who were injured for Ukraine.

On Saturday Ukraine officially marked two years since a violent clampdown on student demonstrations sparked an uprising that toppled the former Soviet Republic’s President and led to armed conflict with Russia. At the time, the prominent and violent role of the neo-Nazi Svoboda party in the protests, as well as a concurrent spike in anti-Semitic incidents, and caused widespread worries that popular discontent would spill over against the local Jewish community.

Within months of joining the post-revolution government, however, Svoboda’s popularity declined precipitously, and while anti-Semitic vandalism did indeed rise, violence against Jews declined and remains much lower than in western Europe.

Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories abound online in the former Soviet Union, especially in regard to the current Ukrainian conflict, and more than one was advanced at Sunday’s rally.

“World Zionism wants to move all of Israel to Ukraine,” former anti-Maidan activist Alexander Borozenets told the crowd. “All of this war is to settle Israel here. This is their goal and the blood of our sons is not worth anything to them.”

One protester was pictured by local media holding up a sign with a picture of a worried looking Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk wearing the hat from a concentration camp uniform and standing next to a barbed wire fence.

According to the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress’ Vyacheslav Likhachev, around five hundred people were in attendance at the rally, which was organized by fringe groups unconnected with the political mainstream.

“No [major] political force or movement” in the government attended, having organized their own events the day before, he said.

Despite that, however, “the rally was important,” said Eduard Dolinsky of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, who pointed out that the Coalition of Orange Revolution, one of the organizers, is planning another such rally next Sunday.

“We haven’t decided what we are going to do,” said local Rabbi and community leader Moshe Azman.

“I don’t think its going to have many consequences.”

Earlier this month vandals painted the name Valtsman and a gallows on a Holocaust memorial in the Poltava region.

"This is a result of a long process during which both pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian extreme-nationalist opposition (such as Svoboda and others) are trying to present the current regime as a Jewish one," said Irena Cantorovich, a researcher at Tel Aviv University who specializes in the former Soviet bloc.

"Of course, each side has its own goals in doing so, but all of them wish to harm the legitimization of the Poroshenko administration. This phenomenon is becoming more and more aggressive."