RFK Jr. pushes back on report he said Covid-19 was ethnically targeted to spare Jews

Longshot Democratic statesmanlike campaigner and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. connected Saturday greeting disputed a study that quoted him saying Covid-19 was "targeted to onslaught Caucasians and Black people" and that Jewish radical are astir immune.

In a study by the New York Post titled "RFK Jr. says COVID was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Jews," video appears to amusement Kennedy speaking astatine a meal successful Manhattan.

In a treatment connected bioweapons and "ethnically targeted microbes," Kennedy claimed that "Covid-19 attacks definite races disproportionately."

Covid-19 is targeted to onslaught Caucasians and Black people. The radical who are astir immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," helium said, according to the video published by the Post. "We don't cognize whether it was deliberately targeted that oregon not." An overwhelming information of American Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, who are descended from Jews who lived successful Central and Eastern Europe.

NBC News has not verified the video. In a connection posted to Twitter aboriginal successful the day, Kennedy defended his remarks, saying they were not anti-Semitic.

"The @nypost communicative is mistaken. I person never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 microorganism was targeted to spare Jews," Kennedy wrote connected Twitter.

"I bash not judge and ne'er implied that the taste effect was deliberately engineered," helium continued.

Kennedy said that "during an off-the-record conversation" helium had claimed "that the U.S. and different governments are processing ethnically targeted bioweapons," and past helium mentioned "a 2021 survey of the Covid-19 microorganism shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately impact definite races."

In January 2022, Kennedy was condemned for implying that Anne Frank, the Jewish teen who hid from the Nazis and yet died successful a attraction camp, had much state than radical surviving nether vaccine mandates.

Kennedy apologized and said helium was "deeply sorry" for those remarks.