RFK Jr. Denies Antisemitism—but It’s the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s suggestion that COVID-19 may have been maliciously engineered to spare Jewish and Chinese people was many things—but surprising wasn’t one of them. As unhinged as the mind of a conspiracy theorist may be, it can always be trusted, sooner or later, to land on the Jews.
And that’s just what the Democratic presidential candidate did at a Manhattan dinner last week when offering his thoughts on the virus’s origins. “There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” he explained. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” Of course, he belatedly conceded, “we don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not.”
Evidently, Kennedy isn’t bothered by the fact that COVID has killed between 1 and 1.5 million people in China, nor its devastating impact on Jewish communities. But facts are of little import to a man who believes the CIA was behind his uncle’s and father’s murders; blamed vaccines for a rise in autism; accused the Republican Party of mounting “a massive, coordinated campaign to subvert the will of the people” in stealing the 2004 presidential election from John Kerry; claimed 5G internet towers are being used “to harvest our data and control our behavior”; and said that Wi-Fi breaches “the blood-brain barrier” and causes “leaky brain.”