RFK Jr. says COVID was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews
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By Jon Levine
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been "ethnically targeted" to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.
Kennedy floated the idea during a question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner at Tony's Di Napoli on East 63d Street.
"COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately," Kennedy said. "COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese."
"We don't know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact," Kennedy hedged.
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In between bites of linguini and clam sauce, Kennedy, 69, warned of more dire biological weapons in the pipeline with a "50% infection fatality rate" that would make COVID-19 "look like a walk in the park."
"We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons," he claimed. "They're collecting Russian DNA. They're collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race."
There has been a growing consensus among US intelligence agencies that COVID-19 was man-made and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China — but there is no evidence it was designed to spare certain religious groups or ethnicities, and Kennedy offered no studies to support his claims.
Kennedy's remark echoes well-worn anti-Semitic literature blaming Jews for the emergence and spread of coronavirus which began circulating online shortly after the pandemic broke out, according to The Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv's 2021 Antisemitism Worldwide Report.
A 2020 Oxford University study found nearly 1 in 5 British people believed Jews created the coronavirus pandemic for financial gain.
"No no no no no," said Dr. Monica Gandhi Professor of medicine and infectious disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and a longtime critic of pandemic-related school closures. "I don't see any evidence that there was any design or bioterrorism that anyone tried to design something to knock off certain groups."
Jewish organizations blasted Kennedy for his remarks.
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"This is crazy," said Morton Klein, President of the right-leaning Zionist Organization of America. "It makes no sense that they would do that. I read everything. I was totally against the vaccine. . . I wanted to convince myself it was correct not to take it. I have never seen anything like this."
Klein, who said he had been advising Kennedy on Israel issues and called him a "good friend," said the remark left him "worried."
The son of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of former President Kennedy has in the past palled around with Nation of Islam leader and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.
He also met with NOI leadership in Los Angeles in 2020 and told them the COVID vaccine had been "genetically modified to attack black and Latino boys."
The left-leaning Anti-Defamation League went further saying in a statement saying: "The claim that COVID-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and black people is deeply offensive and feeds into sinophobic and anti-semitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years."
Kennedy's campaign has drawn in disaffected elements of both the right and left seeking an alternative to mainstream candidates.
Some polls have shown him garnering 20% support among primary voters.
Kennedy called The Post's "mistaken," tweeting Saturday that the event had been off the record, but event organizer Doug Dechert told The Post it was on the record.
A second event attendee confirmed to The Post Dechert told him the same thing.
"The U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races," Kennedy tweeted — reiterating his remarks from the dinner. "The furin cleave docking site is most compatible with blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons."
"I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered," he added — clarifying his recorded remarks.
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I . . . Uh . . . Um . . . I don’t know what to say. He’s actually crazy.
Video of this lunatic - and people around him struggling to keep it together - at the link.
Hasn't been a Kennedy I respected since JFK and Bobby.
We all saw what the fascists did to them.
Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan, fascists through and through.
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I don't know how anyone could vote for this nutcase and he gives the Kennedys a bad name.
I watched it, what mind altering drugs is he on?????? He's fucking nuts.
I’m wondering if he was always crazy, or is this some kind of dementia settling in?
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His scientific adviser is Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I'm looking forward to him peeling off a significant percentage of the maga trash voters...
He sounds like their kind of guy.
Maybe he wants Trump to name him his VP choice.
What sane/decent/liberal/democrat or even an independent vote for this freakshow?
In what, the primaries?
WTH he is really nuts.
He would fit well with the nuts in Florida:
DeSantis asked by GOP officials in Florida to ban vaccine as 'biological weapon'
I just read the he suggested Covid-19 could have been genetically engineered to reduce risks to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people while targeted to kill Black and white people.
From the link:
But, republicans have been telling us that's what AR-15s and AK-47s are for.
well then the opposite is usually true, that type of hardware is for xtian nationalists...
This independent centrist liberal keeps an AR-15 close at all times.
Far right-wing fascists scare the hell out of me.
Someday I'll learn to keep my big mouth shut.
I’m sorry, being so scared is a terrible way to face getting old.
Spent many years as a martial artist, bouncer, bodyguard, paramedic, EPA investigator, and just being me.
Watching my back and packing heat is just normal for me.
How often have you had to use the heat you pack?
It is irresponsible for RFK Jr. to seed conspiracy theories like this.
He is proof that a fine education doesn't equal intelligence.
Intelligent people can be detached from reality too.
all those years as a junkie rewired his brain...
Used to be a member of Mensa and some of us were seriously insane.
Oscar Levant said there was a fine line between genius and insanity.
Why did they revoke your membership?
Became disgusted with TPTB and stopped paying the dues.
Oh yeah, I really don't even think this guy is intelligent, I think he's an asshole.
Bad genes?
Yeah, I looked up his history, I didn't realize he had a heroin addiction/habit back in the day.
This craziness negates IMHO any good he has done for the environment in the past. He's gone full whackjob and it pisses me off that he's running as a Democrat.
And that is why RFK Jr is a lame political joke...
He says her didn't say it. But if he has been recorded saying it...