“There’s a way to censor people through targeted character assassination – you use vile accusations to marginalise them, and that is the kind of censorship I’m now dealing with,” he said.Ī person reacts during the Robert F Kennedy Jr campaign event in New York. He portrayed himself as the target of what he called an “infrastructure” that was set on destroying his campaign. On Tuesday, Kennedy insisted that the barrage of criticism that he has faced in the past week was itself an attempt to silence his long-shot bid for the White House. The report said that his promotion of anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories had “deadly real world consequences”. A political watchdog, the Congressional Integrity Project, recently released a report that set the candidate’s disputed views on Covid against years of antisemitic, racist and xenophobic remarks which it called “horrific” and “beyond the pale”. Kennedy’s bid for the White House has been contentious from the outset, given his embrace of virulent conspiracy theories that promote vaccine hesitancy. I haven’t said an antisemitic word in my life.” “I have a thick skin, but the charge of antisemitism is one that cuts me, it hurts me.
Speaking at a presidential campaign event hosted by the celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Kennedy said the charge of antisemitism had hurt him personally.
