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An angry fiend shouted that he hated Jews and identified himself as Muslim before striking a worker in the right eye at a bookstore on the Upper West Side, police said Tuesday.

“F— you Jews, I’ll kill you all,” the man yelled after entering West Side Judaica on Broadway at West 89th Street around 1:15 p.m. Monday, according to police sources. “I’m Muslim.”

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He then punched a 52-year-old store manager in the right eye when the man approached him. The hate-filled attacker was wearing a red jacket and jeans and fled on a razor scooter, police said.

Sabrina Arch, 44, lives nearby and said the store is a family run business.

“They’re here for the community, Jewish and non-Jewish,” she said. “It’s horrible that this would happen to them.”

Joel Grossman, 63, knows the people who work at the store and said “they’re all friendly.”

“I’m in shock. Last night I came in here to shop and they didn’t say anything,” said Grossman.

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