Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, and vaccine skeptic, has come under fire for saying that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to be less harmful to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese individuals.
Kennedy stated this past week during a visit to Tony’s Di Napoli on Manhattan’s East Side that “COVID-19 is being used to harm Caucasians and Black individuals.” “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese citizens are particularly immune. There are articles out there that demonstrate the race and cultural difference of impact, although we are unaware if it was intentionally targeted or not.
Before saying it, he reportedly stated, “There’s a claim that it’s culturally targeted,” as reported by the New York Post, which released a video of the comments.
Kennedy, who is attempting to defeat President Joe Biden in the Democratic nomination race, is the face of the anti-vaccination movement and has regularly used antisemitic rhetoric to claim—despite the lack of supporting data—that vaccines are harmful.