Several House Democrats sent a letter to House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday, requesting that he disinvite scheduled witness Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from a Thursday hearing on social media censorship.
Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Dan Goldman (D-NY), and Judy Chu (D-CA) led several dozen others in making the request, according to Punchbowl News.
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According to them, Kennedy, who is running for president as a Democrat in 2024, has “repeatedly and recently spread vile and dangerous antisemitic and anti-Asian conspiracy theories that tarnish his credibility as a witness and must not be legitimized with his appearance before the U.S. Congress nor given the platform of an official committee hearing to spread his baseless and discriminatory views.”
The Democratic lawmakers were referring to a video of Kennedy that shows him suggesting COVID-19 could have been ethnically targeted and claiming that Jewish people and Asians were more immune to the virus and therefore spared. Kennedy has defended himself, saying he was simply pointing to COVID-19 as “proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons.”
House Democrats specifically took issue with Kennedy’s insinuation that Jewish people were a different race.
“This technique was used by Hitler claiming that there are biological differences between ethnic or racial groups to portray Jews as a lesser form of humanity, a steppingstone to justifying the annihilation of the Jews during the Holocaust,” they wrote. “Allowing Mr. Kennedy to serve as a witness before the Select Subcommittee only services to legitimize his antisemitic and anti-Asian views.”
On Monday, Executive Director Kyle Herrig of the Congressional Integrity Project, a Democratic watchdog, wrote a similar letter to Jordan, saying, “We now have video evidence of his horrific antisemitic and xenophobic views which are simply beyond the pale.”
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Jordan said on Monday that despite disagreeing with Kennedy, he still plans to have him at the Thursday hearing looking at “Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence speech.”
“Yeah, I totally disagree with what he said, but he’s a Democrat. I disagree with other things he said, too,” Jordan said. “But we’re having him because of censorship.”
