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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong>, the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy, denied allegations of antisemitism Saturday after The New York Post<\/em><\/a> revealed video of the Democratic candidate suggesting that Covid-19 was an \u201cethnically targeted\u201d bioweapon genetically engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.<\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s latest foray into conspiracism came at an Upper East Side press dinner last Tuesday. \u201cCOVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,\u201d Kennedy said while eating linguini and clam sauce. \u201cCOVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy\u2019s comments echo \u201cwell-worn anti-Semitic literature blaming Jews for the emergence and spread of coronavirus which began circulating online shortly after the pandemic broke out,\u201d The Post<\/em> noted. The paper quoted an infectious disease expert who said she did not \u201csee any evidence that there was any design or bioterrorism that anyone tried to design something to knock off certain groups.\u201d<\/p>\n The dinner reportedly<\/a> \u201cdescended into a foul bout of screaming and polemic farting\u201d after host Doug Dechert<\/strong> and \u201coctogenarian art critic Anthony Haden-Guest<\/strong>\u201d began yelling at each other over climate change, which Dechert called a \u201choax.\u201d At one point in the argument, Dechert \u201clet rip a loud, prolonged fart while yelling, as if to underscore his point, \u2018I\u2019m farting!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n