WATCH: RFK Jr. Claims COVID Was Used To ‘ethnically target’ Whites, and Blacks, Sparing Jews

During a press conference this week at an Upper East Side restaurant, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spread wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories, alleging the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Kennedy floated the idea during a question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street.

“COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”

“We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact,” Kennedy hedged.

In between bites of linguini and clam sauce, Kennedy, 69, warned of more dire biological weapons in the pipeline with a “50% infection fatality rate” that would make COVID-19 “look like a walk in the park.”

“We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons and we are developing ethnic bioweapons,” he claimed. “They’re collecting Russian DNA. They’re collecting Chinese DNA so we can target people by race.”

Although there is growing agreement among US intelligence services that COVID-19 was created artificially and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, Kennedy provided no studies to back up his claims that the virus was intended to spare particular ethnic or religious groups.

According to the 2021 Antisemitism Worldwide Report from The Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at the University of Tel Aviv, Kennedy’s statement echoes well-worn anti-Semitic literature that accuses Jews of being responsible for the emergence and spread of the coronavirus and started to circul ate online shortly after the pandemic started.

According to a 2020 Oxford University research, over one in five Brits believed Jews were responsible for the coronavirus outbreak for financial benefit.

“No no no no no,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi Professor of medicine and infectious disease at the University of California, San Francisco, and a longtime critic of pandemic-related school closures. “I don’t see any evidence that there was any design or bioterrorism that anyone tried to design something to knock off certain groups.”

Jewish organizations have since criticized Kennedy for these outlandish remarks:

He also met with NOI leadership in Los Angeles in 2020 and told them the COVID vaccine had been “genetically modified to attack black and Latino boys.”

The left-leaning Anti-Defamation League went further in a statement saying: “The claim that COVID-19 was a bioweapon created by the Chinese or Jews to attack Caucasians and black people is deeply offensive and feeds into sinophobic and anti-semitic conspiracy theories about COVID-19 that we have seen evolve over the last three years.”

Kennedy’s campaign has drawn in disaffected elements of both the right and left seeking an alternative to mainstream candidates.

Some polls have shown him garnering 20% support among primary voters.

Kennedy tweeted Saturday that the event had been off the record, but event organizer Doug Dechert told The Post it was on the record.

A second event attendee confirmed  to The Post Dechert told him the same thing. 

“The U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races,” Kennedy tweeted — reiterating his remarks from the dinner. “The furin cleave docking site is most compatible with blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews. In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons.”

“I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered,” he added. 

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