RFK Jr floats thought COVID-19 was 'focused' to assault white individuals and spare Jews: Report

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleged that COVID-19 had been particularly designed to not have an effect on Jews and Chinese language individuals.

RFK Jr. alleged the concept throughout a question-and-answer interval at a New York restaurant on the Higher East Facet, the place he answered questions on COVID-19, organic weapons. and China's curiosity in such a virus. He particularly theorized that the coronavirus was designed to not have an effect on sure teams, together with Jews.

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“COVID-19. There's an argument that it's ethnically focused. COVID-19 assaults sure races disproportionately,” Kennedy mentioned in a video launched by the New York Submit. “COVID-19 is focused to assault Caucasians and black individuals. The people who find themselves most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese language.”

“We don’t know whether or not it was intentionally focused or not, however there are papers on the market that present the racial or ethnic differential and impression,” Kennedy added.

Kennedy additionally expressed his worries about different stronger organic weapons in improvement that will make COVID-19 seem like a stroll within the park.

“We do know that the Chinese language are spending lots of of hundreds of thousands of dollars creating ethnic bioweapons, and we're creating ethnic bioweapons,” he claimed. “They’re gathering Russian DNA. They’re gathering Chinese language DNA so we are able to goal individuals by race.”

Jewish advocacy teams slammed RFK for his assertion.

“The declare that COVID-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese language or Jews to assault Caucasians and black individuals is deeply offensive and feeds into sinophobic and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that we now have seen evolve over the past three years," the Anti-Defamation League mentioned in an announcement.

Kennedy's remarks echo antisemitic literature launched within the early days of the pandemic, in accordance with The Heart for the Examine of Modern European Jewry on the College of Tel Aviv’s 2021 Antisemitism Worldwide Report. United States intelligence businesses are nonetheless break up on a rising consensus that COVID-19 was developed in a Chinese language lab, however there isn't a proof that the virus didn't have an effect on explicit teams.

Some international locations, equivalent to Russia, have reported that Jewish communities suffered decrease casualty charges to COVID-19. China additionally reported surprisingly low COVID-19-related loss of life numbers, though some specialists imagine that is because of the authorities masking up the variety of deaths.

Kennedy is taken into account the foremost competitor for President Joe Biden within the Democratic major. He is averaged between 8% to twenty% of the vote in latest polls of Democratic voters, in accordance with RealClearPolitics. He has additionally had vital fundraising success, having raised greater than $3 million in a 3-day interval final week.