Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Amplifies Claim That COVID Was Engineered to Protect 'Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese'

At a campaign event in New York City, alleged Democrat presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy stunned his audience by repeating a claim that the COVID-19 virus had been engineered to target “Caucasians and Black people” while, in some Passover-like manner, sparing Chinese and “Ashkenazi Jews.”

We need to talk about bioweapons. I know about bioweapons because I’ve been doing a book on it for the past two and a half years. And, you know, what we — the technology we now have to develop these bioweapons — we have put hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese have done the same thing.

In fact, COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are mostly immune to COVID-19 are, because of the structure of — the genetic structure — genetic differentials among different races, of the receptors, of the ACE2 receptor. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.

But 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 and that — we do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons, and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. That’s what all those labs in the Ukraine are about. They’re collecting Russian DNA, they’re collecting Chinese DNA, so we can target people…

Kennedy, who is trying to unseat Joe Biden as the 2024 Democrat presidential candidate, has gained some appeal with a slice of conservative voters because of his skepticism about climate change and his belief that Ukraine is to blame for Russia’s invasion.

He made his bones as an anti-vaccination activist and has since branched out into just about any other silly idea you can imagine. This go round, he combined a couple of his favorite themes: the government using vaccines to target Blacks and Jews in general.

RFK Jr. has tried to talk himself out of the hole he’d dug.

The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) July 15, 2023

The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that 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 since 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. That study is here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/

Except that is precisely what he said.

The PubMed study he cites does say that the higher prevalence of the ACE2 polymorphism among American Blacks makes them more susceptible to COVID. Other studies show that Ashkenazi Jews share a polymorphism (TMPRSS2) with African Americans, making them vulnerable to COVID. In fact, they have a lot more of it than African Americans.

A few days ago, my colleague Jerry Wilson posted about the press’s problem with RFK, Jr., The Media Keeps Dodging Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Their Own Peril. I’m not sure I agree with the conclusions as I think they know RFK, Jr. is mentally unbalanced and don’t want him to have a high profile in the Democrat party. I also believe that RFK, Jr., is a profoundly disturbed man who should not be near any lever of power.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was edited post-publication for clarity and to include the full transcript of RFK Jr’s remarks in the video obtained by the New York Post.)