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Robert F. Kennedy Jr
On Jews and Israel
Jaime Kardontchik
Preface
Robert F. Kennedy Jr opened his campaign for the 2024 presidential election exactly
a year ago, on April 19, 2023. On June 20, 2023, he gave a remarkable speech in New
Hampshire, “Peace and Diplomacy”, commemorating the anniversary of a famous
speech given by his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, at the American University in
1963. His speech presented a stark contrast with some positions that had taken hold
in the Democratic party regarding the role of the United States in the international
arena. Rumors swirled about him in the social media, and he was accused – between
other things – of being an antisemite. His friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, invited him
to a public dialog to clarify his positions about the Jews. This dialog was held on July
25, 2023.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr ran initially for the Democratic party nomination, but on October
9, 2023, he announced that he would run as an Independent. On March 26, 2024, he
announced his pick for vice-president: Nicole Shanahan, a young Californian lawyer
and philanthropist. The announcement was made in Oakland, California. As a
neighbor living in the Silicon Valley, it caught my attention.
For the benefit of the public, I considered worthwhile to transcribe in written the dialog
that Robert F. Kennedy Jr held with Rabbi Boteach in July 2023. I apologize for any
omissions and mistakes I could have generated during the transcription.
Jaime Kardontchik, PhD (Physics)
Silicon Valley, California
April 2024
Rabbi: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
The World Values Network is very proud to present our new “Presidential Candidate
Series”, focusing on issues that are of great interest to the American public in general,
and the Jewish community in particular. Tonight, we are joined by Democratic
presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Junior, who is currently polling somewhere at
about a fifth of the Democratic electorate. It goes without saying that he is a scion of
America’s most distinguished political family and dynasty, and has been on the
American public stage for decades in his own right.
There are two things that are different about this evening. Why is tonight different from
all the other nights? The first is that a very short rabbi is standing in front of you,
introducing a presidential candidate. We started with a prayer service tonight, because
a few months ago I lost my mother and I am obligated to say the Kadish prayer three
times a day, the Jewish mourning prayer, which we Jews have said way too many
times over the centuries, because we are a triumphant but also a tragic people.
Tomorrow night is the saddest night of the Jewish calendar. It is called “Tisha B’av”. It
commemorates the destruction of both the first Temple at the hands of the
Babylonians, 2,600 years ago and, more importantly, the destruction of the second
Temple by the Romans, 2,000 years ago, the remains of which are the holiest sites in
Judaism today, the Temple Mount, and specially the Kotel, the Western Wall. And what
in the world that these were only ancient events? But unfortunately, they are all too
contemporary, because we are now seeing the rise of antisemitism, with a ferocity not
witnessed since the Holocaust itself, 80 years ago. Jew hatred is on the rise in
countries where we have never witnessed it before, including in the United States. As
we speak, a man is on trial for his life, Robert Bowers, for having murdered eleven
Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, “The Tree of Life”. A year later, another Jewish
woman was murdered in Poway, San Diego, California, and the rabbi, Rabbi
Goldstein, his finger shot off in an attack on a synagogue. And daily, we hear the FBI
revealing foiled attempts to blew up synagogues. This is unprecedent and unheard of,
and let alone the constant demonization of the only Jewish state in the world, the State
of Israel.
Which brings me to the second reason that tonight is important. Our organization does
not endorse candidates, obviously, and I personally do not endorse candidates. But
we do endorse individual values, platforms, ideas. And that is why we are here to zero
in tonight.
On the 5th of June 1968, at 12:15 am, the man that had just won the Californian
presidential primary, the Democratic presidential primary, was walking through a
kitchen at the Ambassador Hotel, when a moment of great triumph turned into a
moment of unspeakable tragedy: Robert Kennedy Sr, one of the greatest Americans
who ever lived, was gunned down by a Palestinian domestic terrorist, Sirhan Sirhan.
And murdered because of his support for Israel. He was gunned down because he
wanted to share the fate of the Jewish people. His last act was to speak to a busboy,
because his whole candidacy was about bringing together the downtrodden, the
forgotten, the invisible. He brought together Jews and Blacks in an electrifying
candidacy that inspired America, when he had informed just two months earlier a Black
audience, that Martin Luther King, the greatest American of the 20th century, had been
murdered; and pleaded for unity, even in a moment of American shame the likes of it
we have never witnessed before. The Jewish community had a choice to make then,
when Robert Kennedy was murdered for his friendship with our people. We could have
gone to his family and his ten children at the time, and his widow Ethel – the eleventh
would only be born months after his murder – and we could have said to them in
general, and to Bobby in particular, who bears his name, as Ruth the Moabite said to
her mother-in-law Naomi: “Your father died for our people. Where you go, we will go,
where you stay, we will stay. Your people shall be our people. Your God shall be our
God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, if
even death separates you and me.”
Instead, when Bobby Kennedy Jr was caught on a video offering thoughts about
Corona virus – whether they were wise or required more reflection – the idea that
members of my community began to libeling and slandering him as an antisemite after
a single comment, when this man at fourteen was the pallbearer of his own father who
died and was murdered for his support for the State of Israel, the idea that he was
falsely accused of being an antisemite, by a community that is truly under siege – is
utterly repugnant. Because there are consequences when we falsely call people
antisemites, there are consequences when a man would stand up and say that the
Jewish people are the indigenous people of the ancient biblical Land of Israel – and
we call him an antisemite.
There are consequences when a man would stand up to Iran, a nation dedicated to a
second Holocaust, a nation that threatens Israel of being removed from the Middle
East, a nation that threatens the annihilation of 6,000,000 more Jews, and what an
eerie number that is, and the only person of the Democratic party running for president
who opposed giving these murderers more money so that they can kill and slaughter
Muslim women whose only quarrel is to not cover their hair in public – and we call this
man an antisemite! There are consequences. Have we no decency?
We have every right to call out comments that are insensitive. The Jewish people have
been falsely accused of spreading disease for thousands of years, especially the Black
Death and the bubonic plague. And we have every right to ask people to be more
sensitive about public comments, lest their words be used by those who hate our
nation. But this means addressing the people with decency, and with dignity. Bobby
said something to me that I will never forget. We were speaking on the phone. He said
to me: “Shmuley, I cannot communicate the personal pain, what it feels like to be called
an antisemite.” I said: “Bobby, you do not have to communicate it. I can feel it over the
phone.”
This presidential series was set up before those comments, but it also allows an
injustice to be corrected. My friends, I am passionate about this because, as much as
I fight antisemitism, I fight false accusations of antisemitism. One cannot work without
the other.
Josh Gottheimer is a Congressman of New Jersey, my state. I have known him for
thirty years, we were at Oxford together while I was there the rabbi. He put up a
statement that Bobby Kennedy – and they are both Democrats – that Bobby Kennedy
is a disgrace to the Kennedy name. And an antisemite. [See Reference 1] And I
wonder: Josh is a good man. Is he the Lord High Chancellor of the legacy of Camelot?
Do you notice what is like to tell a man who lost his father when he was fourteen, when
he was seating in the Jesuit school in Bethesda, Maryland, and gets a call that his
father is shot, goes on the vice-president of the United States plane the next day, and
he is at his father’s bedside, watches him die, and you tell him that he is a disgrace to
his father. Is that what we have come to? Is that what politics in America requires
today?
Do you know why I like Bobby Kennedy? Because throughout this abominable week,
I have seen this man reputation savaged – and he has not once responded in kind. I
even asked him: “Why aren’t you?” He said: “It is not what I do.” Not once.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz – a Democratic Congresswoman from Florida – savaged
Bobby at a Congressional hearing that was about censorship. How ironic. She tried to
censor him. We will let him speak. I do not agree with Bobby on the vaccines. I am
quintupled vaccinated. I do not agree with Bobby on Ukraine. We do not have to agree.
This is just the whole point. We do not have to hate each other for no reason. The
Talmud says that is the reason that God destroyed the Temple: People who hated each
other for no reason. And America is going there, and we are going to stop it. We are
going to have a civil dialog tonight.
But I want to finish. Debbie Wasserman Schultz savaged Bobby Kennedy. Said that
he is an antisemite. [see Reference 2]
My friends, is it possible that the outrage we heard against Bobby Kennedy had some
kind of other agenda? Is it possible that it was an agenda that here is someone who
is speaking out in favor of Israel, as a Democratic aspirant to the presidency, with more
passion than anyone since John F. Kennedy and Robert Francis Kennedy? The
Democratic party was always traditionally the most pro-Israel party. Harry Truman
recognized the state of Israel within eleven minutes after it was founded. Then we
went through eight years of the Eisenhower administration, which was basically hostile
to Israel, including forcing Israel out of the Sinai in 1956. It was John F. Kennedy who
changed that. It was Robert Kennedy who raised that to excellence. Lyndon Johnson
was also a very pro-Israel president. Now we see Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib. And by
the way, I am not criticizing the Democratic party. There are Republicans who, like
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who said the most disgusting things about Jews. And they
should be called up by the Republican party. We see Republican candidates who blow
dog whistles to white supremacists. Utterly unacceptable. Fighting antisemitism has
to be a bipartisan issue.
I have gone way too long in this introduction, only because I want to make one point:
“Bobby, you and I agree on many things and we disagree on many things. But the
slandering that you are in at, and the antisemitism, is something that I take personally
offense to, which is why I stood up against it, because it is a disgusting, dirty lie. And
I thank you for your friendship to my people. We need that friendship. We are a
beleaguered nation right now, not understanding why this oldest of ancient hatred has
risen with such ferocity. And we need outspoken, courageous voices like yours to fight
it. And thank you for being here tonight.”
Rabbi: Bobby: what was the last week and a half like for you?
RFK Jr: It had its ups and downs. You know: I have a thick skin. I have been involved
in controversial issues for most of my career. And, usually, vitriol and poison do not
affect me very much, really do not affect me at all (my wife actually complains about
that) – but the charge of antisemitism is one that cuts me. And it hurts me, it hurts
Cheryl, it hurts our family. So, that was painful. But also, when I was sitting in front of
the [congressional] committee and seeing the people who were making that charge
against me, my attitude toward them was not of hatred or anger. I do not know why
they made those charges. I do not believe that they believe that I am antisemite. I
literally have never said an antisemitic word in my life. But I believe that they probably
think that whatever they were doing was right, one way or another, and I think we all
have this capacity for self-delusion, to judge ourselves on our intentions rather than
on our actions. And I think that if we are going to really heal the divide between
Americans, which is one of the things that I am trying to do with this campaign, then
we can’t react to hatred with hatred. We have to react with forgiveness, we have to
react with kindness and generosity. If you harbor resentments, it is like swallowing
poison and hoping that someone else would die. It corrodes our own souls. So, I think
that my reaction was appropriate, I try to have my say. But not to react, as you pointed
out, with vitriol in return.
[applauses from the public]
Rabbi: Well, help me understand, why is it that this charge of antisemitism cuts so
deep. You have been called so many things since you launched your candidacy, even
before that: Covid-19 is a very charged issue. The vaccines are a charged issue. The
mandates are a charged issue. You were called all kinds of names. But you are saying
that the charge of antisemitism cuts even deeper. Why?
RFK Jr: I have spent a lifetime studying the Holocaust. I understand that the
unprecedented injury, murder of 6 million Jews during World War II, and then the years
and years of, the centuries, of pogroms that preceded those in Germany, and in Spain,
in Poland and in Rumania, and across the land. I also have many friends who are
Holocaust survivors, I have friends who are children and grandchildren of Holocaust
survivors, and I understand the pain of antisemitism to those people. And I do not want
to contribute to that pain. And I do not want people, who have suffered in that way, and
whose lives have been touched by suffering, to suspect that I, in some way, approved
or endorsed their suffering. And that is why it hurts me.
Rabbi: You have a lot of Jewish friends. How did they react to the past few days?
Larry David [a known American comedian] is a good friend. He is your shadchan, he
is your matchmaker to your Charyl Hynes, your wife. How did he react?
RFK Jr: Larry wrote me a note saying that if I ever will use the word Jew, I will be
dead. So that was his reaction. But you know: there is nobody who knows me, who
believes that I am an antisemite. So, I have got a lot of support from my friends. And
you know, I have got support from all over the world, from people who have known me
all my life, and from within the Jewish community. I am very, very happy with the
support I got. I do not want to be the person who adds pain to the lives of other people
who suffered, or be associated with that kind of suffering.
Rabbi: Bobby, I just want to deal with this quickly, because I really want to focus more
on combating antisemitism, on Israel, and some other issues. But let us deal with the
comments for the moment. So, do you understand why – I am not speaking about
those with an agenda, but about those without an agenda – why they may have
reacted very strongly to the suggestion that the Jewish community was more immune
to the Covid-19 virus, in light of false accusations against the Jewish people,
particularly when it came to the Black Death, the bubonic plague …
RFK Jr: Yes. Absolutely. And I would not have made those … As you know, I was
describing an article that I had nothing to do with. It was an NIH [National Institutes of
Health] funded article that was published in 2021 in one of the ten top high gravita
journals, and it was done by the Cleveland Clinic scientists and others. I looked at
something that was not surprising: that many of these diseases disproportionally
impact some races, and disproportionally spare others. And I went through the list of
races that were impacted. It is not something that I would have talked out in a public
event, because I am aware of the history of blood libels and how that kind of
information is used by malicious people to draw up hatred of Jews. I talked about it in
an event in which I was told it was “Chatam House Rules”. It was in the context of a
larger context, the development of ethnic bioweapons, which all our nations are
investing in, which every race – in particular any vulnerable race – should be frightened
of. And I was given an illustration about how even this disease [COVID] appears to
affect some races disproportionally, telling that those kinds of traits could be expanded
in order to create ethnic bioweapons, which would really be a bane on humanity. I was
talking about this in that context. And in fact, as you said, there was no evidence that
it [COVID] was engineered and of course if would not have been engineered by Jews,
in any case. It referred clearly to the people who were involved in the gain-of-function
research [of COVID]. We know who they were, and they were not Jewish. The most
intense of those experiments were in Wuhan, China.
Rabbi: What do you feel that you have learnt over the past week?
RFK Jr: I think that I learned the lesson that Larry suggested to me: never to mention
the name “Jew”. [rabbi Shmuley Boteach and audience laughing].
You know, I am running for president. There are people who want to damage my
candidacy and want to silence me, but it is much more difficult to silence me now. I
was censored for three years as Judge Doughty’s decision pointed out. I was blanket
censored for three years, but now that I am running for president, if makes it very
difficult for people and organizations to censor me. It makes it difficult for the
government to censor me. I was the first one censored by the Biden administration,
and Judge Doughty’s decision details the chronology. President Biden took the oath
of office on January 21th, 2021, and the White House gave the first order to Twitter to
censor me thirty-seven hours later. Now, it was not just a Democratic party enterprise.
I was censored also by the Trump administration. But once I declared my presidency,
it became more difficult to censor me. I am still censored. In fact, my presidential
announcement was removed by YouTube after 5 minutes, when I was talking about
Geraldo Rivera. But there is another way of censoring people, which is called “targeted
propaganda”, also known as character assassination. You pay someone to create
audios of phrases taken out of context, to appear as saying something reprehensible,
so that next time people will be unwilling to listen to you again, and you become
marginalized or dismissed. And that is the kind of censorship that I am now dealing
with. By the way: I am not complaining. I am just pointing to a fact. As a candidate who
is aware of these things, I should be more carefully about what I say, because anything
that I say might be distorted and going to be used against me, it is going to be
weaponized against me.
Rabbi: But conversely, the presidential platform provides a microphone to the world
like no other. You can stand up for things in which you believe in. Which is why we are
here tonight, not just to talk about offensive issues.
However, just one more thing here, because I want to be sure that we just deal with
this subject, so we can move past it. The other thing that was raised by your critics
was that you have met with Louis Farrakhan. President Obama met with Louis
Farrakhan, but he wasn’t called an antisemite. You and I talked a little about the Nation
of Islam. I told you that Malcolm X’s daughter had been to our home for Shabbat many
times. Malcolm X had a fascinating growth period, ending his life assassinated in
February 1965. But as a great man, who was really beginning to see the huge vistas
of the human condition, he himself turned against the Nation of Islam, because he felt
it had an anti-Jewish, an anti-white message. But that does not mean that the Nation
of Islam is entirely negative. The dignity they tried to give African-American men and
women in general, and men in particular, is extremely positive. It is the antisemitic
element, particularly by Louis Farrakhan, which is so deeply offensive. He called the
Jews “termites”, etc. So, how do you feel about that meeting that you had with
Farrakhan, and what do you feel toward him now, particularly in light of how
antisemitism is now growing?
RFK Jr: Let me give you the context for that. One of the books I wrote, I think in 2015,
was called “Let the science speak”. It is about a mercury preservative that was used
widely in vaccines, and later removed. It was very dangerous. It was thousand times
more neurotoxic than lead. It was destroying the brains of children who took those jabs
and was causing an epidemic of neurological disorders. It was taken out of most
vaccines in 2003. However, that year the flu vaccine that was recommended for
women, and pregnant women in every trimester of pregnancy, and for every child
every year of life, replaced the mercury in almost comparable numbers. By 2016 it had
been removed from many of the vaccines, but it was still in about 40-50% in multidose
vials. But those vials were being sent to Black communities, the poor communities.
They were not sent to the suburbs; they were not sent to wealthy communities. And I
wrote an article about that, saying that Black kids were disproportionally given these
neurotoxins; and Black kids already – as you know – are already suffering from other
neurotoxins like lead: 44% of urban Black kids have dangerous levels of lead. Adding
another neurotoxin to that was not a good idea. I had written an article about that, and
I was contacted, because of that article, by leaders of the Nation of Islam, and they
asked me if I will be willing to come to Chicago, to their headquarters, to talk to their
doctors and their medical staff, and their leadership, about this issue. And I said: “Yes,
I would.” And as result of this, they adopted policies to inform people about this danger.
Minister Farrakhan was at that meeting. So, I think that if I was asked – and this is
almost a talmudic discussion at this point: “Do you meet with a person who absolutely
had been reprehensible on an issue like that, if you could save one child?” And that
is the calculation I had to make. May be that I was saving a lot of children. So, I made
a decision that was a difficult decision. I want to say this, because you know about
this, rabbi, that I do not cancel reprehensible people. You know, I met with Sirhan –
who was involved one way or another in my father’s death. I went to the prison and
met him. I have been to Habana and met there with Fidel Castro. I have met with many,
many people with whom I disagree on many issues. I think that everyone ultimately is
redeemable. And that we need to talk to each other, if we are going to heal divisions
between us. You can’t do that by marginalizing your enemy. You know, one of Martin
Luther King’s closest friends was a man who was a minister to the Ku Klux Klan. And
he admired him greatly. And so, I think that it is a difficult moral decision, because are
you validating someone by appearing with them? Even though if you do not adopt their
hatred, but is it at some times worth meeting with someone anyway, and letting him
know that your values are very different?
Rabbi: That is a fair point, but I believe that if you are going to meet with someone like
Farrakhan, the first thing that you need to say publicly is: “Minister Farrakhan, I found
your views on Jews reprehensible, it is beneath you. You are looked up to by millions
of people. This is an abrogation of your responsibility as a leader, to ever look at a
human being in that way, and to speak in that way to another human being.” It is as
speaking truth to power.
RFK Jr: I did have a conversation like that. I did not make it public, but I had that
conversation….
Rabbi: It is a fair moral dilemma. But be it as it may. Let us move now to Israel.
Bobby, I lived in England – I was a rabbi at the Oxford University – during, let us call it
the “Corbynization” of the Labor party in the United Kingdom. Israel had been
supported in the past by the Labor party and the Conservative party, but little by little
the whole Labor party was lost and that is the way it remains in the UK till today. The
Conservative party is pro-Israel: Margaret Thatcher, John Major; but the Labor party
is kind of being lost. And the Jewish community made peace with that. Many in the
Jewish community here in the United States are kind of looking at the Republican party
and saying the same thing: “Trump was the most pro-Israel president, he moved the
embassy to Jerusalem, recognized the [Israeli sovereignty over the] Golan Heights.
Obama gave us the Iran deal.” And they are kind of giving up on the Democratic party.
I do not believe in that in the slightest. However, it crossed my mind that your incredible
strong pro-Israel posture may be related to the difficulties you face within the
Democratic party today. Let us talk back for a moment. What is your connection to
Israel? What do you think about Israel? And what do you think about the Democratic
party’s posture vis-à-vis Israel?
RFK Jr: My father was in the armed services in World War II, my uncle Joe was killed
in World War II, my uncle John Kennedy was the only president who was ever awarded
a purple heart. His PT [Patrol Torpedo] boat was cut in two, and he was presumed
dead for ten days, before he was found in an island in the Solomon Islands chain,
together with his crew he had rescued. My uncle Billy Huntington was killed during the
war. And I was born in 1954, when the war was still a major preoccupation at our
house. The question of what had happened to the Germans in World War II was a
subject of constant debate and attention at our home. How was it possible that one of
the most educated, civilized and humane people, how could they descend into that
kind of barbarism. The Holocaust was the worst aberration in modern human
existence. I grew up with those thoughts, and I grew up believing that the State of
Israel was this extraordinary blossom in the desert, an oasis of democracy and values,
of human rights, in a midst of a sea of totalitarianism.
I assumed that my children would feel the same way. I was shocked in recent years
that my kids coming on from college had a very different narrative about Israel that
they had picked up from their gestalt, from their milieu, and that narrative is the
narrative that has been adopted in recent years by the Democratic party, which sees
Israel as an occupying nation, an imperium, oppressing indigenous Palestinians. And,
as a racist state and an apartheid state. And part of my campaign, it is going to be a
major piece, is explaining to American citizens why that view is wrong. And make the
moral case for Israel.
Israel, as you know, is the only place in the Middle East where there is freedom of
expression, for all citizens. There are 1.9 million Palestinians in Israel, and they vote.
Palestinians serve in the legislature; they serve in the courts. There is one Palestinian
judge serving in the Supreme Court. There is no place in the Middle East where there
is a Jew on any court, or on any legislature. May be in Morocco, there may be some
public officials that are Jewish, but nowhere in the Middle East. It is the only place
where women have rights. As you know, this week people in Iran are being jailed,
women are being jailed for not wearing hijabs. It is the only place where gays have
rights. It was two weeks ago that a gay pride parade took place in Israel with 150,000
people, in both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. At the same time, the government of Iran is
hanging gays and castrating them. And that is true throughout the Middle East. It is
the only place where there is freedom of religion, where you are free to practice any
religion that you want. It is the only place where you can have freedom of expression.
A Palestinian who wants to criticize its government – had better do it in Israel. It is the
only place where he can do it. If he does that in the West Bank, he will be tortured,
and killed and arrested. Or in Gaza.
I have been a critic of the current “reforms” or modifications of the Supreme Court,
sought by the present Israeli government. I can criticize Israel, without being an
antisemite. But Israel’s Supreme Court is the most humane judiciary in the world. As
somebody who has litigated, and as a constitutional scholar – I have taught Law for
thirty-five years – there is no country in the world with a judiciary like Israel. This is the
only country that has actually dealt with the “ticking-time bomb” issue. The “ticking-
time bomb” issue, scenario, is that, if there is a terrorist who knows the location of a
bomb that is about to kill civilians, in huge numbers, can you torture that person to find
out where the bomb is located? And in Israel the law is clear: you cannot. And that is
evidence of the humanity that you see in all of Israel. I am very proud of the Israeli
Supreme Court. It is incredible what an independent judiciary can do, the hold that the
Supreme Court has over the Israeli society. The Court will not allow the military to
capture people’s relatives, in order to pressure somebody to talk.
And the conduct of the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, when they go into Palestinian
territories is beyond anything in the world. Colonel Kemp, one of the leading military
historians and tacticians in the world, said this last week, two weeks ago. You know,
Jenin is a town in the West Bank. Jenin is a bomb factory. Most nations, when dealing
with these issues – they just bomb the neighborhood, like the Russians did in
Chechnya. Because you have a neighborhood where virtually all the people that are
living there are supporting terrorism. The terrorists are hiding behind civilians and
everyone is involved in bomb-making. And those bombs are destined to kill civilians,
these bombs are being strapped on men, women, and children, and kill civilians in
Israel. Most nations, and we have done this ourselves, and clearly Russia was doing
this in Chechnya, they would go and bomb that neighborhood. What Israel, the Israeli
Defense Forces (IDF) do, is they send their people to do retail combat, door to door,
putting IDF soldiers at risk, in order to avoid civilian casualties, collateral casualties. In
the recent Jenin attack, there were twelve terrorists that were killed. All of them
involved in bomb-making. All of them involved in planning attacks on Jewish civilians.
And not a single innocent person, child or civilian. Israel is unique in the Middle East
for saying that they are only going to attack military targets. And they are very
disciplined about doing so. The Palestinian Authority, in contrast, has a long tradition
of deliberately targeting civilians. And not only that, they have a “pay to slay” policy.
That is the official policy of the Palestinian Authority. If you kill a Jew, not a member of
the IDF, if you kill any Jew, you are going to get awarded with pay for life. And if you
fail, if you go to jail, or if you get killed – your family will get payments. For life. And the
official policy of Hamas is the genocide of all the Jews. By the way, in 1948, when
Israel was attacked at its birth, the plans of Syria, Egypt and other nations, were
captured. And their plan was the complete extermination of the Jews. They took the
side of Hitler during World War II. They lost the war. And the practice and the policy of
all those nations is to kill individual civilians. Whereas Israel does the opposite. It only
attacks military targets. Now, in any attack, civilians do die. And this is always a tragedy
and is always an atrocity. But it is not deliberate.
I want to go through a little bit about the history of Israel. Many of you do not know the
history. First of all, the Jews have been there for 3,700 years. The term Palestine was
actually invented by the Romans, when they were trying to exterminate the Jews and
move them out. They renamed Judea after the Jew’s enemies, the Philistines.
Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire, and the Palestinians during World War I
fought against the allied forces, so they were on the losing side. And at the end of the
war, the Ottoman Empire was dismantled. And the League of Nations, and Woodrow
Wilson, said this is what we are going to do: We are going to take apart the Ottoman
Empire, and we are going to give the ownership of those countries to the indigenous
people who live in these countries. Well, Palestine was a large area, it was called the
British Mandate, and more than half the people who lived there were Jews. I think it
was about 600,000 Jews and about 500,000 Palestinians. I could be wrong about
those numbers, they are probably disputed. So, there were two groups that were due
to get land. And 4/5 of that land – because of bigoted institutions – was given to the
Palestinians, it is now called Jordan. And 1/5, a tiny little sliver of the original land, was
given to the Jews. And then, there were a series of wars.
In 1948 Israel became a State. All the nations around attacked it, and some of them
took chunks away. The Gaza Strip was taken by Egypt, Judea and Samaria, the West
Bank, were taken by Jordan. And the Temple Mount was also taken by Jordan. And
Israel lives without those for many years. And then, those countries all attacked Israel,
an unprovoked attack, on 1967. I remember sitting with my father on the patio of
Bethesda swimming pool when he got a call from the White House, and someone on
that phone told him that Syria and Egypt had just attacked Israel, and Jordan would
soon join them. Israel said to Jordan: Please, do not attack us and we will not touch
your land, we will not attack you. Jordan attacked anyway. And as a result of that, I
remember, I said to my father how can Israel survive, because the land owned by the
Arabs is 600 times the land owned by Israel. It is a tiny, tiny, little sliver 20-25 miles
across. I said, how can it survive all these giant nations, attacking Israel. And he said
to me that the Israelis are tough, which is the highest accolade he could have given to
anyone. So, I understood his admiration. And the Israelis won that war by a miracle,
and they took back the Temple Mount, which was theirs, their part of the Mandate,
they took the West Bank, and they took the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights.
And then, the UN [242] resolution [was adopted in 1967], and the Israeli government
said that they will give those lands all back from the countries from which they took,
even if they had won them fairly in that war, even if they are part of their historical land.
Israel said that it will trade land for peace, if the Arabs promise they will not attack
Israel anymore. And Egypt agreed, and got back the Sinai. But Jordan would not
agree. The Israelis have negotiated with the Palestinians at Camp David. And again
and again, the Israelis had offered to make giant concessions and give back all the
land if there would be peace. And every time the Palestinians refused. Prince Bandar,
who was at Camp David, and who was from Saudi Arabia, who is the referee at Camp
David, said that it was 100% the fault of Yasser Arafat, that they would not take the
most generous concessions. And that brings us to where we are today.
You know, the Palestinians are being taught in the schools to murder Jews, and some
80% of the Palestinian people, when they are polled, in polls after polls, say that it is
OK to murder Jews and that Israel has no right to exist, and that ultimately it must be
destroyed. Listen: we have a big country; it is very hard to invade us. And every country
that is under national security threat imposes restrictions on citizens. And in World War
II we put Japanese, who did nothing, in concentration camps. Israel has not done that.
Israel takes precautions, but has not done that. 1.9 million Palestinians who live in
Israel, vote and participate. They are not called into the army, they are not required to
serve like other people. I will say one other thing: during the Oslo Accords, one of the
agreements during the Oslo Accords, was that Palestinians who live in Israel have the
right to return to Palestine. And they assumed that hundreds of thousands will do so,
and they would be given land in Palestine. They would live under the Palestinian
Authority, as there was a lot of empty land in Palestine, they were given the right to go
there. There was assumed that hundreds of thousands would take the advantage of
that offer. But only 4,000 went. And why is that? Why did they prefer to live in Israel?
Because of the freedom in Israel. Because if you go to Palestine, Palestine is a
kleptocracy. Yasser Arafat died a billionaire. The people who run Hamas have
hundreds of millions of dollars. And we give 800 million dollars each year to the
Palestinian Authority. They use some of that money to pay people to kill Jews, civilians.
And these are issues that you may dispute with me, but you need to think about them.
And these are the issues I talked to my kids about and that I want to talk to the
Democratic party about, because the current narrative about Israel is not an accurate
narrative. Listen, if you want, everybody can criticize Israel, this is not antisemitic. But
if you criticize Israel and you are applying a different standard to Israel from that
applied to the countries surrounding it, that is antisemitism. Take the United Nations:
it passed last year, I do not know, fifty or sixty resolutions against Israel, more of all
the countries in the world combined, and yet, there are many, many countries that
have really reprehensible human rights records, and they never get reprimanded by
the United Nations. Or, if you are holding Israel alone to this high standard, and you
do not hold nations to that standard, that are much, much worse than Israel, then you
have to wonder whether that is not antisemitism [applauses from the public]
Rabbi: My Gosh! I do not think that I have ever heard a major American political figure
express such a multifaceted portray of Israel in an historical context, as we have just
heard. That was unprecedented. To be honest, how can a man who has just said that,
how could he be called an antisemite! Honestly, I just do not have words.
Bobby, the Kennedy family is like the Jewish people: triumphal and tragic at the same
time. Sadly, there is a lot of symmetry: You are the most famous political family in the
United States, may be in the world, but you suffered unspeakable tragedy. How do you
survive something like that? Do you see your family as triumphant or tragic, or both?
RFK Jr: You know, we were discouraged from complaining, whatever happened. My
mom would say to us when we were little that there are many kids who lose both their
parents, to violence, to bullets, and they do not have the family that we do. They do
not have the resources, the education, the access, the values that we were given and
drilled into from since we were little. It gave us tremendous resilience. My mom said
something to me when one of my brothers died. I had asked her: “Does the hole that
they leave when they die, does it ever get any smaller?” And she said that she had
experiences of death in her live, from both her parents, who died in plane crashes, her
brother killed, and many, many other tragedies. And she said a hole never gets any
smaller, but our job is to make ourselves bigger around the hole. And the way that we
do that is we take the best virtues of the people who had died and we try to integrate
those virtues into our own character. And in doing that we provide that person with a
kind of immortality. Because they are now living through us, the best parts of them.
We also make ourselves into a larger human being and that way the hole gets smaller,
proportionally smaller. I think of that a lot of times. I lost two of my nieces during the
pandemic and, you know, I lost my wife who took her own life. And two of my brothers;
my cousin John who was my closest friend, and his wife. And in coping with those
tragic circumstances in my life, I have been able to utilize that piece of wisdom that
my mother gave me, and take those tragedies, and try to help other people through,
try to lighten the burden of other people, [learn] to know what to say, to console them.
And to try to make something good in my own character, that comes out of each of
these tragedies.
Rabbi: You said earlier that you are not going to strike back at your critics, that you
are running a different kind of campaign. You are not going to engage in the gutter.
And I have seen you – almost as a Jesus-like figure – turn the other cheek. I have
seen you being hit and struck this whole week. I have seen family members coming
against you. You never strike back. Can someone like you survive a presidential
contest?
RFK Jr: I am not scared about fight. My whole life has been this. You know, I have
chosen a life of litigation, which is a daily fist-fight. I do not shy away from a fight. It is
just, what I try to do is not to become personal in a fight, not to go after someone
personally. I think that president Biden is wrong in a lot of issues, and I rather spend
my time arguing about those issues than about his personal problems.
And for me it is just a better way to go. But I get every day ready to go to war. It is just
the rules of war for me are to keep my own peace.
Rabbi: To focus on the issues and not on the personalities?
RFK Jr: Exactly.
Rabbi: I am going to ask you two more questions, before we go to questions from the
audience. Would you sign an Iran deal?
RFK Jr: Well, I can’t say that I would not sign an Iran deal. Iran needs to do two things
in order to be integrated into the community of nations. Number one, it needs to give
up plans to build up a nuclear bomb.
Rabbi: Do you say, any kind of nuclear program?
RFK Jr: No, they don’t. Iran is an energy superpower. It has one of the largest reserves
of oil in the world. It is completely energy independent. It is an energy exporter. There
is no reason that it needs a nuclear power plant. A nuclear power plant is not economic,
it is not good for the environment. And the only reason that they want it, is to build a
bomb.
You know, I said in 2002 when we were going to war with Iraq, I said that this is a war
that we should not be going to. It is a pre-emptive war against someone who never did
anything against us. Saddam Hussein does not harbor terrorists. He did not have
anything to do with the World Center attack. He does not have weapons of mass
destruction. And we are going to expose ourselves and we are going to weaken our
country. The same way that we are weakening our country now with Ukraine. We are
going to weaken America, and we should save our strength for something that is
important.
And the most important thing should be to prevent the launch of a nuclear arms race
in the Middle East. Which will be the end of humanity. Our policy should be that nobody
in the Middle East should have nuclear weapons. Because this is a danger to all of us.
And the US should use its moral authority, its economic cloud, and even its military, as
necessary, to prevent the development of nuclear weapons by any Middle Eastern
nation. I said that for over 20 years. I think that that is really, really, important. So, there
should be no deal with Iran unless you have pledges, verifiable, not to have nuclear
weapons program.
Number two, Iran has to change its policy of funding Hamas to kill Israelis and to fund
the genocide of Jews.
That is what they should be doing. I think that that is what needs to happen if we want
to bring them into the community of nations. By the way, the 152 billion dollars that we
are shipping over there, what the Biden administration is trying to get them, that money
was money that was impounded by the West from Iranians, whose assets we froze.
The money does not belong to the Iranian government. It belongs to individual
Iranians, and we should not be sending it. Because it is fungible. It is going to end up
building their nuclear weapons program.
Rabbi: My final question. Bob, your father in 1968 famously put together a coalition
that it was so unpredictable. It was essentially Latino agriculture workers (Cesar
Chavez), the African American community who loved him, Native Americans, which
they were not the biggest part of the American electorate, but he highlighted them. And
finally, the Jewish community. That would seem to be odd.
Many people in the Black community do not see a natural affinity with the Jewish
community because they say to me all the time: “Shmuley, I think that the Jewish
community has kind of forgotten its roots. You guys have become prosperous.” That
is, obviously, not true. Not all Jews are prosperous, like in any community. Some are,
some are not.
But your father seems to have seen what others did not see: That the Jewish
community was not a privileged community. It was a persecuted community. He was
trying to give them voice. And that Israel was a vulnerable democracy. Like you say,
Israel’s 1967 victory was not foretold. It was miraculous.
How much of your own affinity with the Jewish community comes from your father?
You revere your father’s memory. The way you write about your father in the book
“American Values” is just beautiful. The picture you have on the front cover, being on
his back, it is just beautiful. You look exactly like him. I am not the first person to say
that. You bear his name. How much of this campaign is about him. You sprinkle with
the star dust of his magic. Your campaign is beginning to electrify America with the
star dust of that RFK magic. When it was cut short. At least with your uncle, we were
able to see that it led to the presidency. Yes, he did not finish his first term. And it was
tragic. But it was also triumphant. But with your father, we do not know what would
have happen. And here we are. Are you completing that circle? And how much of your
connection with Israel, and the eloquence that you expressed it today, the unparalleled
eloquence of putting Israel in the historical context: the Jews are the indigenous people
of the ancient biblical lands, opposition to Iran, etc., all these things … How much
comes from your father and how much of the campaign comes from your father?
RFK Jr: I have spent a lot of time studying my father, and my whole family. I feel very
comfortable with the values that they spent their lives and ultimately died for. The love
they had for this country. My grandfather once said that someone told him that he was
Irish. He said: Ireland never did anything for the Kennedys. Everything that we have
comes from America. And they had this love that they adopted. My grandmother took
us to Walden Pond, she took us on the Freedom Trail, she took us to the Civil War
battlefields. My father, and my uncle Teddy, we went to all the revolutionary war
battlefields. And they revered the founders of our country, who were Protestant. When
they came to Boston in 1848, when they, our grand-grandparents came, there was
tremendous bigotry against Irish Catholics. In fact, my grandmother would show us
clippings, her father was the first Irish Catholic mayor of Boston, and she had clippings
of him on the newspaper.
On the backside of that clipping, should one turn it around, there were classified ads.
And the classified ads always had this little acronym on them “NINA” (No Irish Need
Apply). That was the Boston they were raised in. My grandfather ultimately had to
leave Boston and come to New York, because of the bigotry against Irish Catholics
was so heavy. But despite that, they felt part of this country, even though the power
structure did not like them. They felt an affinity for the values and a love for the values
of this country, even more than the people who hated them. And my father was raised
in that household, and he raised us the same way. With the love for our country. Part
of that was the love for this extraordinary experience: Israel, which was this little nation,
and with their people that had been scattered in the Diaspora, scattered all over the
planet, and beleaguered, and butchered, and murdered everywhere. First the
Babylonians, and the Romans who root them out, stripped the land from them; then
the Byzantine Empire, and so on. And they were constantly trying to get back to that
land. And finally, after World War II, after suffering the loss of 6 million people, cooked
in ovens, gassed to death, women, and children, in the most horrendous
industrialization of murder in the history of mankind. And out of that terrible tragedy,
this flower spouted in the desert.
By the way, after World War II, President Truman put huge amounts of resources into
preserving democracy in Greece, and also keeping communist control out of Turkey,
because he saw that as a bulwark against the enemies of the United States. The
Soviet Union at that time was moving across Europe. He thought that he had to keep
those nations alive. Today there are some adversaries, including Russia and China,
that are moving into the Middle East right now, and Israel is the most reliable ally that
we have there, the only democracy in the Middle East. It is an important alliance.
Meanwhile, we give 2.3 billion dollars a year to Egypt, which tortures people, which is
not a democracy, we give a billion dollars to Jordan, which is not a democracy and
which tortures people, and which has no functioning judiciary in the sense that Israel
does, and then we give 800 million to the Palestinian Authority, which uses that money
literally to train children from birth to hate Jews and to kill them. So, the money that
we spend, that we send to Israel, is money well spent.
Rabbi: We are going to go to questions, but I want to say one thing to you, Bobby, as
we transition to the questions: I want to thank you, and I say this sincerely. The Talmud
has a famous expression that says: Words that emanate from the heart, penetrate the
heart. So many people are cynical about politics and about politicians. And when you
and I went to celebrate in the Israeli parade, and we were getting into your car, and
given how your father died, and your uncle, you know, you have a lot of security, my
heart went out to you, that you have to live like that at times. I just saw your courage
marching with us, marching with the Jewish people, and I put my arms on your
shoulder and I said: “Do you believe in God?”, and you said “God is the center of my
life”. And then you said to me, and you said it with such conviction, you said to me:
“Shmuley, I am going to be a great champion for Israel”. You know, Bobby, you
absolutely kept your word. [applauses from the audience]
***
Questions from the audience
A woman: Gentlemen, thank you both for tonight. I am a proud Iranian-American Jew.
So many of my fellow countrymen, men and women, back home in Iran are being
tortured and brutalized on a daily basis. Why do you think the leaders of the free world
are allowing the torture, brutality, and executions to continue, and what would you do
to help the Iranian people?
RFK Jr: Thank you for that very, very moving description, and that is exactly why we
should not be sending money. We just sent 2.5 billion dollars, or we just committed to
send 2.5 billion dollars, to Iran. We should not do that. We should be boycotting them
until those kinds of crimes stop. And that is what I will do as president.
Rabbi: I just want to add one thing. My father was born in Iran, in the city of Isfahan,
the city which is a UNESCO world heritage site, it is the ancient imperial capital of Iran.
I am an Iranian-American. My family has been in Iran for 2,500 years. They left before
Khomeini. My father left to America in the 1960’s, and my mother is from America. To
see the full tragedy of Iran it is something that should be heartbreaking. A few years
ago, we hosted the Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. Let us be honest: Iran was
not perfect under the Shah of Iran. There was the Savak, a military police that also
tortured people. But the worst estimates of political dissidents who were killed by the
Shah and by the Savak, was probably between 3,000-3,500 people. You can never
compare tragedies. But the brutality of the Mullahs is so overwhelmingly worse that it
is shocking that we give them any money, it is shocking that there isn’t a global cry
against how the Iranian people are being brutalized.
I am not speaking now about the genocidal threats against Israel or a nuclear weapon,
with the Iranian generals saying that Israel is a one-bomb state, and that it is good that
Israel was created, because now the Jews are all congregated into one place, so one
bomb will [be enough to] create a second Holocaust.
I am talking about the Iranian people, that nobody gives a damn about the many
Iranian women, watching them being shot, over the past year. Shot at demonstrations.
It is sickening. That nobody cares that an Iranian woman, who is married to a man who
wants to get rid of her, can literally simply be accused of adultery, and the judicial
system in Iran is such that you are guilty until proven innocent. So, you accuse your
wife of adultery, and she has to proof that she is not guilty of adultery, which is
impossible. And when she doesn’t, they dig a pit and they put her into the pit – and
this was shown in that extraordinary real documentary by a French journalist, no friend
of Israel, called “The stoning of Soraya M”. She is stoned to death by her male family,
by her children. This is happening today, not a thousand years ago. And the world
watches it, and we give these brutes money, so they can slaughter the Iranian people.
***
A man: Do you support legislation that would prohibit forcing people to take vaccines,
and do you support legislation that would protect children against mutilation, also
known as gender reassignment?
RFK Jr: Definitely. I do not think that those things should be mandated. I am very, very
distressed by reassignment of gender. It is a very distressing issue for me. And I think,
even the puberty blockers need to be looked into. We need to really understand what
we are doing to our children. And certainly, nobody should be doing that without
parental permission. I do not think it is a good idea for children. I do want to say this:
We all need to respect people who have different gender identities, and they should
never be shamed, and they should never be treated differently or in ways that make
them feel badly about themselves. We need to respect each other; we need to love
each other. But I am very, very distressed by what is happening, with very young
children getting some of these treatments. I do not think that we understand them.
***
A man: Thank you for speaking up for denuclearization and about peace in the Middle
East. I think that we share that goal. So, my question is: Would you support the
demand that Israel let the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, inspect their
undeclared arsenal of nuclear weapons and demand that they sign on to the non-
proliferation treaty.
RFK Jr: Will I do that with Israel?
The man: Yeah. We do not want to hold them to a different standard …
RFK Jr: No. I would not. Israel’s use of a nuclear weapon is not going to happen,
unless it is attacked. We know that. Israel will never use a nuclear weapon: Even at
that point, it is going to be too late.
My position is: I do not think that we should start an arms race in the Middle East.
What I am worried about is an out-of-control nuclear race. Iran is now trying to build a
nuclear weapon. And Saudi Arabia has now said that if Iran builds a nuclear weapon,
they want a nuclear weapon too. And they are trying to build theirs. And all these
nations have the money to invest in that program, and if enough of them get nuclear
weapons, you know, these are totalitarian regimes, they are not democracies, and
then, somebody ultimately is going to use them. And that is going to be the end of
humanity.
***
A man: My question is on the topic of nuclear war, which you addressed very well in
your speech in New Hampshire, which I think was one of the most important speeches
given by a candidate. I am presently an organizer for an organization called the
International Peace Coalition, we have been organizing peace organizations across
the world, to really unite against this threat of nuclear war. And we really have to breach
the gap, as you said, because it no longer matters what the ideologies might be, what
the particular believes are. Humanity is on the brink of annihilation, and we need to
unite in that matter, no matter what. John F. Kennedy’s American University speech is
probably one of the most important speeches ever given. We need a peace that is not
for the grave, but a peace for all our families, a peace that everyone can cherish. And
I want you to talk about that, and I would like you to talk about JFK’s American
University speech.
RFK Jr: First of all, I love what you said. Thank you for everything what you said. And
thank you for advocating for that, because is so critical right now. I mean, we are
potentially in an existential battle with Russia. US is now effectively at war with Russia.
It is a nuclear power. And they have thousands more nuclear weapons than we do.
And nobody seems to be caring about this. I love what you said. I agree that my uncle’s
speech was one of the most important speeches in American history. He had
negotiated secretly a nuclear test bench treaty with Khrushchev. My uncle and
Khrushchev had developed this extraordinary friendship with each other, where they
could talk with each other on a hotline. The State Department, the intelligence
apparatus, they all wanted to go to war, but both of them had been to war. And
Khrushchev had been in Stalingrad. The last thing he wanted was to go to war. And
he recognized that he had a partner in my uncle. They wrote each other 26 secret
letters. The first one was smuggled by a soviet spy who used to visit our house when
I was a little boy. His name is Georgi Bolshakov. And we loved him. Me and my ten
brothers and sisters. He would play with us. He would do Cossack dancing. He would
climb ropes with my dad and do pushup contests. A very charming guy. And it was cool
for us, because we knew that he was a KGB spy. And this was in a time when all the
James Bond films were coming out, so it was cool to have a spy in our house. [laughs
in the audience] But Khrushchev knew that he could not trust his people, his military
apparatus. My uncle knew that he could not trust his. They began corresponding with
each other, hiding their letters in the New York Times newspaper, which Georgi
Bolshakov would fly with them back and forth to Moscow and give them. And they
devised a plan to create the first Nuclear Weapons Treaty of the nuclear age, which
was the Nuclear Test Bench Treaty. And they negotiated it secretly. They kept the State
Department and the CIA out of it. And when they got the treaty, the US sympathy for
that treaty was 80 to 20 against it. And the military was in rebellion against my uncle;
the Senate and the House, even the Democrats, were all against it. And that speech
was the beginning of turning the tide. He said something extraordinary to the American
people. We had all been raised with the idea that we had won the war. It is America
who beat Hitler. We were watching films that show Americans beating the Nazis and
winning the war. And my uncle said: No, it was the Russians who won the war. One
out of seven Russians was killed. Hitler leveled a third of their countries. Imagine,
every city was reduced to rubble. Every field burned, every force burned, between the
East Coast and Chicago. That is what happened to Russia. And he said: we need to
put ourselves into their shoes. We need to put ourselves into the shoes of our
adversary. And it was the first time that Americans heard that, and they started thinking
differently about that. Two months later that treaty passed. And I think it is important to
think of today. Because nobody has talked to Putin for a year. We have no eye-level
relationship with Russia. We need to be talking to them, we need to do what my uncle
said, that is, to put ourselves in the shoes of our adversaries [applauses]
Lexicon
“Lord High Chancellor”:
The head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords in the UK
“Camelot”:
A name that in the American myth became associated with the Kennedy’s family,
especially John F. Kennedy.
“Chatham House Rules”:
The rule reads as follows: When a meeting is held under the Chatham House Rule,
participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity, nor the
affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. The rule
is a system for holding debates and discussion panels on controversial topics, named
after the London headquarters of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where the
rule originated in 1927.
“Gain-of-Function Research”:
Research where naturally occurring animal viruses are modified to make them more
infectious among humans.
“Talmudic discussion”:
(in present-day talk) A discussion in which even the smallest details are carefully
discussed.
“Corbynization”:
Jeremy Corbyn was a British politician and leader of the Labor party during 2015-2020.
He veered the party from its traditional pro-Israeli stance to an anti-Israeli position. He
was lately rebuffed by the Labor party and removed from it, due to its antisemitic views.
References
[1] “RFK Jr is a disgrace to the Kennedy name and the Democratic Party. Speaker
McCarthy and Jim Jordan should disinvite this antisemite from testifying before
Congress and spewing his misinformation and hate.” Posted by Representative Josh
Gottheimer on Twitter (X) on July 15, 2023:
https://twitter.com/RepJoshG/status/1680271625575342082
[2] “Kennedy has repeatedly spread vile, dangerous antisemitic and anti-Asian
theories”, Wasserman Schultz Congressional webpage, July 18, 2023
https://wassermanschultz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3051
About the author: Jaime Kardontchik
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I got my first degree in Physics, Licenciado en
Ciencias Físicas, from the Buenos Aries University, and my Master and PhD in Physics
from the Israel Institute of Technology, “The Technion”. In parallel with my studies in
the secondary public school in Argentina, y studied and got the diploma of “Hebrew
Teacher” at the “Seminar of Hebrew Teachers”, the main secular secondary school of
the Jewish community of Buenos Aires (localized in the second floor of the AMIA
building, destroyed by a bomb in 1994).
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