Max Blumenthal's Expertly Debunks RFK Jr.'s Israel-Palestine Propaganda

Max Blumenthal's Expertly Debunks RFK Jr.'s Israel-Palestine Propaganda

August 5, 2023

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A day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed to a public discussion with Max Blumenthal on Israel-Palestine, his campaign walked back his words. RFK Jr. has pledged "unconditional support" to Israel while spouting vitriolic anti-Palestinian rhetoric.

One day after Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. agreed to comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dore's proposal that he engage with The Grayzone's editor-in-chief, Max Blumenthal, in a public dialogue on Israel-Palestine, Kennedy's campaign nixed the discussion.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to define himself as "the strongest peace and freedom candidate in two decades," while denouncing "neocons and warmongers." At the same time, he has zealously defended the conduct of Israel's military and justified the country's decades-long occupation of Palestinians – even denying that any military occupation exists.

Kennedy placed his Likudnik views on Israel-Palestine at the forefront of his campaign message after being bombarded with accusations of antisemitism stemming from comments he made at a private July 14 event in New York City. Over dinner, he responded to a question about the origins of Covid-19 by opining that "there is an argument" the virus did not affect Ashkenazi Jews and people of Chinese descent as strongly as "European and African people."

"We don't know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact," Kennedy qualified.

When a New York Post reporter who had been present at the dinner published the candidate's comments, a maelstrom of manufactured outrage burst forth from Kennedy's opponents within the Democratic establishment. While the Biden White House and a host of Jewish pressure groups condemned Kennedy as an antisemite, a letter signed by 100 Democratic members of Congress likened him to Adolph Hitler.

When Kennedy arrived on Capitol Hill for July 20 testimony before the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz predictably blasted him as a Jew hater. He attempted to push back by deploying ultra-Zionist talking points.

"I'm the only person that has publicly objected to that $2 billion payout that the Biden administration is now making to Iran, which is a genocidal program. I've fought more ferociously for Israel than anybody," Kennedy claimed.

He was apparently referring to the $2.7 billion Iran received in gas and electric payments from Iraq – not the US – after the Biden administration granted the latter country's request for a sanctions waiver. In other words, Kennedy was framing cross-border trade between two regional, sovereign neighbors as "genocidal."

Kennedy escalated his warlike rhetoric during a July 23 New York City event hosted by Shmuley Boteach, a former reality show rabbi recruited by the late Likudnik oligarch Sheldon Adelson to advance the cause of Greater Israel within the United States. (Adelson was a top funder of Donald Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns).

During a 20-minute-long diatribe laden with anti-Palestinian venom and ultra-Zionist propaganda, Kennedy referred to hijabs as "habibs" and pronounced Chechnya as though he had not heard of the place until moments before the event. While pledging to prevent any country in the Middle East from obtaining nuclear weapons as president, the candidate seemed unaware that Israel possessed a secret nuclear arsenal.

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/08/03/rfk-jr-israel-palestine-dialogue/

Read Max's work at The Grayzone here: http://thegrayzone.com
Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal

Original: https://youtu.be/eCcVvp0eBaQ

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