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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 Kennedys COVID-19 conjecture isnt original: Jews have been blamed for spreading plagues for centuries, most famously during Europes 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 hed 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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Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,266 posts)Cha
(319,076 posts)Conspiracy mouth got him into trouble and he can "..tweet as furiously" as he wants but he said what he said.
Totally agree
marble falls
(71,926 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(179,869 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)TY to you for posting it
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)By 2025!
Cha
(319,076 posts)all over for this.. thought it was an OP.. which maybe you would consider.
I think Rep Hakeem Jeffries carries Gravitas.
TY
Link to tweet
dalton99a
(94,119 posts)70sEraVet
(5,482 posts)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)the GOP to get away with all this crap.
ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)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.
Cha
(319,076 posts)dare he be so Cruelly Stupid.
His father and both of his uncles would be SO ashamed of him.
dalton99a
(94,119 posts)
