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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made comments in which he said there was an “argument” that COVID-19 is “ethnically targeted.”

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Kennedy, during a dinner in New York last week, claimed COVID-19 is “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” while sparing Ashkenazi Jewish people and Chinese people.

The term Ashkenazi is generally used to refer Jewish people whose ancestors lived in parts of Europe. The majority of American Jews describe themselves as Ashkenazi.

Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, tweeted Saturday that Kennedy’s comments are “deeply offensive and incredibly dangerous.”

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