KIEV, Nov. 23 - 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, The Jerusalem Post reported.