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Ed Pilkington in New York

Unrepentant Robert Kennedy Jr attempts to revive campaign after antisemitism accusations

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to discuss antisemitism.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joins Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to discuss antisemitism in New York. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr has said that he should have been “more careful” in making his recent false remarks about the “ethnic targeting” of the Covid pandemic.

At a campaign debate in New York on Tuesday night, Kennedy sought to put the accusation of antisemitism that has engulfed his campaign behind him. But he stopped short of retracting his false claim that coronavirus had been targeted to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people from the impact of the disease.

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