New York Mayor Bill de Blasio harshly condemned anti-Semitic acts, which have become a phenomenon in the United States and throughout the world, saying that he will always stand alongside Israel.

At a conference of the Brooklyn haredi community, de Blasio related to the shooting attacks in Kansas and Brussels and said, “The danger of anti-Semitism is always hiding behind some corner in the world. You would think that our European friends would have learned something, but anti-Semitism still lives and is kicking at all of western Europe.”