The figures released this week by the Metropolitan Police listed 483 anti-Semitic hate crimes documented over the 12 months that preceded Nov. 1, 2015.
Vyacheslav Likhachev, an anti-Semitism researcher affiliated with the Vaad of Ukraine and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, said that “Ukrainians are afraid of the Russian threat, not the threat of national radicalism
The verdict said that Danish imam Sheikh Abu Bilal Ismail considered Jews as “criminals who kill prophets and children and Jews are worse than wild beasts in the world of the jungle.''
The owner of a Jewish bookstore in New York’s Manhattan Upper West Side was attacked by a man who claimed to be a Muslim and went on a rant about Jews outside the store.
“The Jews are cruel and malicious,” “the Jews are stingy,” “[the Jews] lie and cheat,” “Jews violate contracts and promises,” and “they [the Jews] falsified the Torah.”
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.