RFK Jr. says COVID was “ethnically targeted” to save Jews

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. floated 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 save the Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese

Kennedy came up with the idea during a raucous drink Q&A portion and fart-filled dinner at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street.

“COVID 19. There’s an argument that it’s ethnically targeted. COVID-19 disproportionately attacks certain races,” Kennedy said. “Covid-19 is targeting Caucasians and Blacks. The most immune people are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“We don’t know if it was deliberately targeted or not, but there are documents that show the difference and the racial or ethnic impact,” Kennedy covered.

Between bites of linguini and clam sauce, Kennedy, 69, warned that more serious bioweapons were in the works with a “50% death rate from infection” that would make COVID-19 “look like a walk in the park “.

“We know the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons,” he said. “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 laboratory in Wuhan, China, but there is no evidence that it was designed to spare certain religious or ethnic groups, and Kennedy offered no studies to support his claims.

Kennedy’s comment echoes well-worn anti-Semitic literature blaming Jews for the emergence and spread of the coronavirus that began circulating online soon after the pandemic broke out, according to the Center for the Study of Jews contemporary Europeans from Tel Aviv University. Anti-Semitism World Report 2021.

A 2020 University of Oxford study found almost 1 in 5 Britons they believed that Jews created the coronavirus pandemic for financial gain.

“No no no no no,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine and infectious diseases 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 someone was trying to design something to wipe out certain groups.”

Jewish organizations criticized Kennedy for his comments.

“This is crazy,” said Morton Klein, president of the right-leaning Zionist Organization of America. “It doesn’t make sense for them to do that. I read everything. I was totally against the vaccine. . . . I wanted to convince myself that it was right not to get it. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Klein, who said he had been advising Kennedy on Israel issues and called him a “good friend,” said the comment left him “concerned.”

Son of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy and nephew of former Attorney General In the past, President Kennedy has aged around with Nation of Islam leader and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

He too he met with the leadership of the NOI in Los Angeles in 2020 and told them that the COVID vaccine had been “genetically engineered to target black and Latino boys.”

The left-leaning Anti-Defamation League went further, saying in a statement: “The claim that COVID-19 was a biological weapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and Blacks is deeply offensive and feeds the Sinophobic conspiracy and anti-Semitic. theories about COVID-19 that we’ve seen evolve over the past three years.”

Kennedy’s campaign has attracted disgruntled elements from both the right and the left who are looking for an alternative to the mainstream candidates.

Some surveys have shown this gaining 20% ​​support among primary voters.

Representatives for Kennedy did not respond to a request for comment.