{"id":1978323,"date":"2023-07-20T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-denies-past-comments-antisemitic-at-house-hearing-smears-misinterpretation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:52:33","slug":"rfk-jr-denies-past-comments-antisemitic-at-house-hearing-smears-misinterpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-denies-past-comments-antisemitic-at-house-hearing-smears-misinterpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. rejects accusations of antisemitism at House hearing: &#8216;Unfair attacks, misinterpretation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frfk-jr-denies-past-comments-antisemitic-at-house-hearing-smears-misinterpretation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978323&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democratic presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends past comments, claims he is being smeared<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, Kennedy made \u2063controversial\u2062 remarks about \u200dCOVID-19, suggesting it was &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whatever-you-do-dont-call-them-biolabs\/\" title=\"Whatever You Do, Don\u2019t Call Them Biolabs!\">ethnically targeted<\/a>&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-training-documents-insist-america-founded-on-systemic-racism-tell-employees-to-reject-equality\/\" title=\"Disney Training Documents Insist America Founded On \u2018Systemic Racism,\u201d Tell Employees To Reject \u2018Equality\u2019\">disproportionately affecting<\/a> certain\u200d races. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-democrats-to-introduce-bill-that-would-allow-tech-companies-to-create-governments-report\/\" title=\"Nevada Democrats To Introduce Bill That Would \u2018Allow Tech Companies To Create Governments\u2019: Report\">specifically mentioned<\/a> that Caucasians and Black people were being attacked, while Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people\u200b seemed to have more\u2064 immunity. Kennedy acknowledged the existence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rfk-jr-denies-past-comments-antisemitic-at-house-hearing-smears-misinterpretation\/\" title=\"RFK Jr. rejects accusations of antisemitism at House hearing: 'Unfair attacks, misinterpretation'\">papers showing racial<\/a> and ethnic differentials but did not\u200d confirm\u2062 if the virus was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kennedy-family-members-put-on-blast-for-how-they-are-treating-rfk-jr-the-mark-of-totalitarian-systems\/\" title=\"Kennedy family criticized for treatment of RFK Jr.: 'Revealing totalitarian traits'\">deliberately \u2064targeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Defending his statements<\/h3>\n<p>During a hearing on censorship hosted by the House\u200b Select Committee on the Weaponization\u2062 of the Federal Government, Kennedy defended his previous statements,\u200b despite video \u2063evidence proving otherwise. \u2064He vehemently denied ever\u200b uttering\u200c racist or antisemitic phrases\u2063 and \u200caccused those criticizing him of attempting to censor him through smears, misinterpretations, and lies.<\/p>\n<h3>Republicans&#8217; response<\/h3>\n<p>While some House Republicans leadership denounced Kennedy&#8217;s comments,\u2063 they still allowed him\u200b to testify before the committee. Subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) disagreed with\u2063 Kennedy&#8217;s statements but emphasized his belief in free speech and opposition to censorship. House Majority Leader Steve\u2062 Scalise (R-LA) condemned Kennedy&#8217;s remarks but also defended his appearance before the committee, citing the importance of discussing the selective shutdown of opposing viewpoints by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here\u2063 to read\u200d more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his previous antisemitic remarks, alleging he was being unfairly criticized during a congressional hearing. Recently, he stated that COVID-19 disproportionately affects specific races and is &#8220;ethnically targeted.&#8221; Meanwhile, President Biden has initiated measures to address junk fees, food prices, and corporate mergers, acknowledging the targeted nature of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}