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RFK Jr. and the Jews

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    (not from the source!) What would Sigmund Freud say? KEVIN BARRETT JUL 23, 2023       To say that RFK Jr. goes out of his way to avoid offending Jews would be an understatement. He presents himself as the world’s biggest friend of the Jewish people in general and the Jewish ( supremacist ) state of Israel in particular. The first mainstream article that covered RFK’s presidential run with a positive spin was   David Samuels’s piece in the Jewish magazine Tablet . But since then there hasn’t exactly been a groundswell of Kennedy support in the mainstream Jewish community. Aside from free-thinking outliers like   Naomi Wolf   and some of my radio guests ( Josh Mitteldorf ,   Barry Kissin ,   Steve Brown ,   Ron Rattner ) it seems that most of American Jewry, or at least its media wing, views RFK Jr.’s candidacy with trepidation. That trepidation metamorphosed into hysterical denunciation last week, when the candidate’s off-the-rec...