Speaker McCarthy said he disagrees with “everything” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reportedly said last week about Covid-19 conspiracy theories, but rejected Democrats’ calls to cancel Kennedy’s public appearance before a Republican-controlled House committee.
reportedly said last week about Covid-19 being bioengineered “to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are"most immune."
“I think if you’re going to look at censorship in America — your first action is to censor him probably plays into some of the problems we have,” he said. “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he said in the video. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted that or not.” An overwhelming portion of American Jews are Ashkenazi Jews.The Democrats likened Kennedy's comments suggesting that the coronavirus was bioengineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people from infection to a technique used by Hitler.
“By promoting the unfounded notion that scientists are developing bioweapons that can target certain races and exempt others, while referring to Jews as a separate race, Mr. Kennedy is employing a pernicious form of antisemitism that has been used for centuries,” the draft says. Members of both parties have come under fire for making antisemitic remarks ahead of Israel President Isaac Herzog’s address to Congress on Wednesday.from both Democrats and Republicans after calling Israel a “racist state” during a progressive conference over the weekend.
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