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applegrove

(132,216 posts)
Sun Jul 16, 2023, 06:36 PM Jul 2023

The Most Shocking Aspect of RFK Jr.'s Anti-Semitism

The Most Shocking Aspect of RFK Jr.’s Anti-Semitism

July 16, 2023 at 4:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 44 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/16/the-most-shocking-aspect-of-rfk-jr-s-anti-semitism/

"SNIP........

Yair Rosenberg: “That Kennedy would ultimately echo the anti-Semitic assumptions of his conspiratorial cohort was inevitable. Indeed, he is far from the first traveler on the well-trodden path from conspiracism to outright anti-Semitism. In recent years, individuals as diverse as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kyrie Irving, and Elon Musk have graduated from garden-variety conspiracy theories to anti-Jewish arguments. Even the content of Kennedy’s COVID-19 conjecture isn’t original: Jews have been blamed for spreading plagues for centuries, most famously during Europe’s Black Death.”

“Over the weekend, Kennedy furiously tweeted denials and clarifications, insisting that he meant only that COVID served ‘as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons,’ not that ‘the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered,’ though he’d clearly raised that exact possibility in his original remarks.”

“Kennedy himself has no prior history of anti-Semitism, and has never evinced personal prejudice toward Jewish people. But his conspiratorial compass ensured that he would eventually arrive at this destination, because it points in only one direction.”

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Hekate

(100,133 posts)
6. Robert the Nutball has gotten plenty of denunciations that I've read. He's damaging all of us.
Sun Jul 16, 2023, 09:18 PM
Jul 2023

Cha

(319,076 posts)
2. This is so sickening.. his big
Sun Jul 16, 2023, 06:58 PM
Jul 2023

Conspiracy mouth got him into trouble and he can "..tweet as furiously" as he wants but he said what he said.

Cha

(319,076 posts)
12. TY & Rep Jeffries! I was looking
Mon Jul 17, 2023, 12:09 AM
Jul 2023

all over for this.. thought it was an OP.. which maybe you would consider.

I think Rep Hakeem Jeffries carries Gravitas. TY


70sEraVet

(5,482 posts)
9. My Jewish grandfather deeply loved the Kennedys.
Sun Jul 16, 2023, 09:38 PM
Jul 2023

He knew JFK from his advertising days in Boston, when JFK was running for Congress. And Bobby was a caring young man who was destined to make America a better place for EVERYBODY!
Glad my grandfather isnt here to see this travesty.

applegrove

(132,216 posts)
17. If your grandfather's generation was still around they never would have allowed
Mon Jul 17, 2023, 01:33 AM
Jul 2023

the GOP to get away with all this crap.

ShazzieB

(22,590 posts)
11. This didn't surprise me at all.
Sun Jul 16, 2023, 09:39 PM
Jul 2023

Not after he compared having to adhere to public measures during the pandemic with Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis.

He tried to take it back (of course) but some things are not retractable, because just saying them inflicts so much hurt on so many people.

That told me exactly what kind of jerk he is.

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