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Things got a bit explosive that night.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced a conspiracy theory this week that COVID-19 could have been a bioweapon “deliberately targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people while disproportionately attacking White and Black people, according to a video of the remarks published by the New York Post.
A number of high-profile Jewish groups are denouncing Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s false remarks that “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese” people are “most immune” to Covid-19.
An Anti-Defamation League spokesperson told The Washington Post that Kennedy's claim the coronavirus may have been manipulated to pose less risk to Jews was a particularly hazardous form of conspiracy theory.