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Kerry Kennedy, 63, spoke retired astir her member Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s caller remarks astir however COVID-19 is targeted against definite ethnicities, successful a caller tweet. The lawyer and quality rights activist, whose begetter is the precocious Robert F. Kennedy, took to Twitter to uncover she condemns the 69-year-old U.S. statesmanlike candidate‘s instrumentality connected the pandemic and adjacent called his words “untruthful,” connected July 17. “I STRONGLY condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks past week astir Covid being engineered for taste targeting,” the tweet read.
I STRONGLY condemn my brother's deplorable and untruthful remarks past week astir Covid being engineered for taste targeting. https://t.co/9YCag7JtHm
— Kerry Kennedy (@KerryKennedyRFK) July 17, 2023
Kerry besides included a nexus to a afloat statement she posted astir Robert aka Bobby’s COVID-19 remarks, connected the website for her family’s advocacy organization, RFK Human Rights. “[Bobby’s] statements bash not correspond what I judge oregon what Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights basal for, with our 50+-year way grounds of protecting rights and lasting against racism and each forms of discrimination,” the connection read.
Kerry’s connection comes aft Robert, who entered the statesmanlike contention successful Apr., made his remarks astatine a backstage lawsuit successful New York City past week. The infinitesimal was captured connected video by the New York Post. “COVID-19. There is an statement that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks definite races disproportionately,” helium said during the event. “COVID-19 is targeted to onslaught Caucasians and Black people. The radical who are astir immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
The @nypost communicative is mistaken. I person never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 microorganism was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed retired — during an off-the-record speech — that the U.S. and different governments are processing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021…
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023
Robert, who has leaned into conspiracy theories astir vaccines and COVID-19, gained disapproval from respective Jewish civilian rights organizations aft his comments went public, including Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee. “Every facet of his comments reflects immoderate of the astir abhorrent antisemitic conspiracy theories passim past and contributes to today’s unsafe emergence of antisemitism,” Ted tweeted connected July 15.
“Robert Kennedy Jr.’s comments besides airs a menace to individuals of Chinese descent who person already faced unjust and unsafe vilification owed to COVID. We indispensable each cull specified divisive rhetoric,” Ted besides wrote.
Robert, himself, besides responded to the backlash, and called the New York Post “mistaken” astir his comments, successful a tweet, which tin beryllium seen above. “I person never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 microorganism was targeted to spare Jews,” helium wrote. “I accurately pointed retired — during an off-the-record speech — that the U.S. and different governments are processing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 survey of the COVID-19 microorganism shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately impact definite races since the furin cleave docking tract is astir compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and slightest compatible with taste Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves arsenic a benignant of impervious of conception for ethnically targeted bioweapons. I bash not judge and ne'er implied that the taste effect was deliberately engineered.”
Kerry condemned her brother, Robert’s comments astir COVID-19 connected July 17. (Steve Sands/NewYorkNewswire/Bauer-Griffin/Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock)
He besides included a nexus to the survey helium was referring to. After the survey was looked into, the New York Times reported that the probe didn’t authorities the COVID-19 microorganism was targeting immoderate 1 radical group, and it didn’t find that Chinese radical are much receptive to the virus. It did, however, accidental that 1 receptor for the microorganism was not recovered among the Amish Ashkenazi Jewish populations.
In summation to his archetypal tweet, Robert posted a 2nd lengthy tweet, a mates of hours later, to further code the backlash from the New York Post communicative and video. “The insinuation by @nypost and others that, arsenic as effect of my quoting a peer-reviewed insubstantial connected bio-weapons, I americium someway antisemitic, is simply a disgusting fabrication,” helium wrote successful immoderate of the tweet.
“I recognize the affectional symptom that these inaccurate distortions and fabrications person caused to galore Jews who callback the humor libels of poison wells and the deliberate dispersed of illness arsenic the pretext for genocidal programs against their ancestors,” helium continued, earlier adding, “My begetter and my uncles, John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy, devoted tremendous governmental energies during their careers to supporting Israel and warring antisemitism. I mean to walk my governmental vocation making those household causes my priority.”
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