New York Post's Jon Levine Got It Wrong

New York Post reporter Jon Levine got it wrong in his article today claiming that I said COVID was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jews.

I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to “spare” Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that China and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 appears to disproportionately affect certain races since the furin cleave docking site is most compatible with Blacks and Caucasians and least compatible with ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews.

In that sense, it serves as a kind of proof of concept for ethnically targeted bioweapons. I do not believe and never implied that the ethnic effect was deliberately engineered.

That study is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32664879/.

Levine exploited this OFF-THE-RECORD conversation to smear me by association with an outlandish conspiracy theory. 

This cynical maneuver is consistent with the mainstream media playbook to discredit me as a crank — and by association, to discredit revelations of genuine corruption and collusion. 

Here are three examples:

1. Government / Big Tech collusion to censor dissent on social media;

2. Fauci et al’s suppression of the lab leak hypothesis;

3. The censoring of information questioning COVID vaccine safety and efficacy.

As I describe in my new book, “The Wuhan Cover-Up,” ethnically targeted bioweapons are real, and history makes clear there is no population who should be more concerned about a thing like that than people of Jewish and African decent.

Gavin de Becker, bestselling author of “The Gift of Fear,” just made this insightful comment on the New York Post controversy. It’s worth sharing:

"Targeted propaganda attacks work because they grab us emotionally.  I am Jewish too, bar mitzvahed, grandfather escaped from Poland, etc.  So the whole topic is radioactive — and from that point of view, the NY Post article is masterful: it grabs us, gets us emotionally invested, and sets people searching for adjacent material by bad people to link to the topic RFK Jr raised.

“It gets our attention and it gets us to associate crazy ideas with RFK Jr., and most of all, it gives us a person to focus all our anger and revulsion and fear on. 

“What the article does *not* do is bring any attention to the fact that the most powerful governments in history are spending billions of dollars on exactly this type of biological weapon. 

“In fact, the article accomplishes exactly the opposite. It distracts from ethnically targeted biological weapons and focuses attention on the man RFK Jr. instead.”

Finally, let's not miss the bigger context here, which is the need to shift our national and global priorities away from bioweapons, and weapons of all kinds, to focus on peace, freedom, and prosperity. That's what I just told Michael Shellenberger on the phone: "My point was that what they're doing is horrendous. Instead of being at war, we should be signing treaties for peace and for controlling bioweapons." Shellenberger’s post today is worth reading.

And, please watch my conversation with Rabbi Shmuley here.