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KEVIN BARRETT\nThe Unz Review<\/p>\n
<\/iframe>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><a class=\"caption\" title=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v2z0wg2\/'\" href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v2z0wg2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video Link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">To say that RFK Jr. goes out of his way to avoid offending Jews would be an understatement. He presents himself as the world\u2019s biggest friend of the Jewish people in general and the Jewish (<a title=\"https:\/\/kevinbarrett.substack.com\/p\/a-tale-of-two-occupations\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinbarrett.substack.com\/p\/a-tale-of-two-occupations\" rel=\"\">supremacist<\/a>) state of Israel in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The first mainstream article that covered RFK\u2019s presidential run with a positive spin was\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-interview-david-samuels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/arts-letters\/articles\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-interview-david-samuels\" rel=\"\">David Samuels\u2019s piece in the Jewish magazine Tablet<\/a>. But since then there hasn\u2019t exactly been a groundswell of Kennedy support in the mainstream Jewish community. Aside from free-thinking outliers like\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/naomiwolf.substack.com\/p\/this-jewess-says-rfk-jr-is-right\" href=\"https:\/\/naomiwolf.substack.com\/p\/this-jewess-says-rfk-jr-is-right\" rel=\"\">Naomi Wolf<\/a>\u00a0and some of my radio guests (<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_josh-mitteldorf-on-time-paradoxes-and-election-integrity\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_josh-mitteldorf-on-time-paradoxes-and-election-integrity\/\" rel=\"\">Josh Mitteldorf<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_barry-kissin-on-blame-the-russians\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_barry-kissin-on-blame-the-russians\/\" rel=\"\">Barry Kissin<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/kevinbarrett.substack.com\/publish\/post\/135360875\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinbarrett.substack.com\/publish\/post\/135360875\" rel=\"\">Steve Brown<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_ron-rattner-on-finding-9-11-truth-einstein-synchronicity-and\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_ron-rattner-on-finding-9-11-truth-einstein-synchronicity-and\/\" rel=\"\">Ron Rattner<\/a>) it seems that most of American Jewry, or at least its media wing, views RFK Jr.\u2019s candidacy with trepidation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">That trepidation metamorphosed into hysterical denunciation last week, when the candidate\u2019s off-the-record dinner-table remarks about ethnic-specific bioweapons and COVID-19 triggered the biggest\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/these-two-minute-anti-semitism-hates-rfk-jr-pedro-gonzales-nick-fuentes-pat-buchanan-are-designed-to-suppress-real-issues\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/these-two-minute-anti-semitism-hates-rfk-jr-pedro-gonzales-nick-fuentes-pat-buchanan-are-designed-to-suppress-real-issues\/\" rel=\"\">two-minute anti-Semitism media hatefest<\/a>\u00a0since Kanye West went defcon 3.\u00a0<em>The New York Post<\/em>\u00a0broke the story with a lying headline: \u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/15\/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/15\/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews\/\" rel=\"\">RFK Jr. says COVID was \u2018ethnically targeted\u2019 to spare Jews.<\/a>\u201d What Kennedy actually said, in informal conversation, was:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese\u2026We don\u2019t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but there are papers out there that show the racial or ethnic differential and impact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The candidate could be fairly accused of hyperbole: The\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32664879\/\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32664879\/\" rel=\"\">study<\/a>\u00a0he was citing did not indicate\u00a0<em>how<\/em>\u00a0disproportionally COVID affected different ethnicities, but only analyzed one genetic factor, which may or may not have had much real-world effect. But that study does say pretty much what RFK says it does. What it does not say, and what RFK Jr. did not say, is that COVID was a Jewish-Chinese bioweapon designed to kill white and black people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But you wouldn\u2019t know that from the media coverage. Nor would you know it from remarks of Congressional reps like Debbie Wasserman Schulz, who tried to censor Kennedy\u2019s anti-censorship testimony, saying \u201cMr. Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable antisemitic and anti-Asian comments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The witch hunt, of course, was unsurprising. What\u00a0<em>was<\/em>\u00a0surprising was that RFK Jr. would say something that was begging to be misinterpreted as \u201canti-Semitic.\u201d This is the guy, after all, who presents himself as the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel candidate in the known universe. Why would he even bring up\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32664879\/\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32664879\/\" rel=\"\">the \u201cethnic targeting\u201d study<\/a>, much less exaggerate it in such a way as to practically force the ADL and its friends to accuse him of blaming COVID on the Jews?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Some RFK supporters might wonder if their hero, like Trump before him, is playing 3D chess. Maybe RFK knows full well\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/did-israel-kill-the-kennedies\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/did-israel-kill-the-kennedies\/\" rel=\"\">who really killed his father and uncle<\/a>. In that case, his exaggerated philosemitic pro-Israel schtick would be a ruse. Like his father before him, who kept publicly quiet about the murder of his brother JFK in hopes of winning the presidency and undoing the coup, RFK Jr. could be blowing (pro-Zionist) smoke to camouflage the reality of his mission. Could he have deliberately provoked the hysterical attacks in order to garner free publicity and let the media and political establishment further discredit itself\u2014the sort of thing that Trump has made a political career out of?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">All things considered, the 3D chess scenario is unlikely. RFK is considerably smarter than Trump, but he is less manipulative. Unlike Trump, RFK is sincere. He is the what-you-see-is-what-you-get candidate. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s lying or being manipulative when he professes undying love for Israel, hatred for Nazi Germany, and concern about COVID affecting ethnicities differently in light of what we know about ethnic-specific bioweapon research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But the question remains: Why is Kennedy so irrationally extremist in his support for Israel? And why did he intemperately exaggerate the COVID-ethnicity study in such a way as to invite attacks? Both his rabidly Likudnik Zionism and his ill-considered \u201canti-Semitic\u201d bioweapon speculation seem, shall we say, immoderate, if not a little unhinged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">So let\u2019s put RFK Jr. on Dr. Freud\u2019s proverbial couch. Freud coined the term\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/reaction-formation#:~:text=Reaction%20formation%20is%20a%20defense,extol%20the%20virtues%20of%20abstinence.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/reaction-formation#:~:text=Reaction%20formation%20is%20a%20defense,extol%20the%20virtues%20of%20abstinence.\" rel=\"\">reaction formation<\/a>: \u201c<strong>a defense mechanism in which people express the opposite of their true feelings, sometimes to an exaggerated extent. For instance, a man who feels insecure about his masculinity might act overly aggressive. Or a woman with substance use disorder may extol the virtues of abstinence.<\/strong>\u201d In many cases, the subjects are not even consciously aware of their true feelings. The peacenik who is so bellicose in his pacifism that he is always starting fights\u2014I have known several\u2014is generally unaware that his real motivation is not dedication to peace, but smoldering inner aggression. And then there are the greedy, ambitious, competitive, materialistic people who adopt leftist politics to conceal their real feelings about money and status. I\u2019ve known more than a few of those too. And don\u2019t get me started about the ranting anti-global-warming fanatics who seem to think their bloviations will save the world while your skepticism will destroy it, even as their excessively comfortable lifestyles emit far more carbon in week than you do in a month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_13\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">So reaction formations are quite common, and often a big driver of people\u2019s political views. RFK Jr.\u2019s grossly exaggerated, seemingly irrational pro-Israel extremism has all the hallmarks of a classic reaction formation. If such is the case, Kennedy would be hiding his repressed hostility to the Jewish state not only from others, but also from himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_14\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But why would Kennedy hate Israel, yet remain in deep denial of his real feelings? For the same reason that Hamlet hated his stepfather Claudius but couldn\u2019t bring himself to act.<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/did-israel-kill-the-kennedies\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/did-israel-kill-the-kennedies\/\" rel=\"\">\u00a0Israel killed Kennedy\u2019s father<\/a>, just like Claudius killed Hamlet\u2019s. But just as Hamlet grew up in Claudius\u2019s household, vulnerable to Claudius\u2019s despotic power, RFK Jr. grew up in post-Zionist-coup America, helpless and defenseless. Vulnerable people in the household of an abuser, especially children, have a tendency to engage in\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/dictionary.apa.org\/identification-with-the-aggressor\" href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.apa.org\/identification-with-the-aggressor\" rel=\"\">identification with the aggressor<\/a>: \u201can unconscious mechanism in which an individual identifies with someone who poses a threat or with an opponent who cannot be mastered.\u201d From RFK Jr.\u2019s perspective, that would be the Zionists. He totally identifies with them, even with their most disgustingly vulgar mediocrities like\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.thefloridastar.com\/articles\/rabbi-shmuley-boteach-stands-up-for-robert-f-kennedy-jr-against-accusations\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefloridastar.com\/articles\/rabbi-shmuley-boteach-stands-up-for-robert-f-kennedy-jr-against-accusations\/\" rel=\"\">Rabbi Shmuley Boteach<\/a>, and hyperbolically deems himself the biggest Zionist of all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_15\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>But What About the Blurt-Out?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_16\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">If a reaction formation explains RFK\u2019s ultra-Zionism, then what explains his COVID-targeted-to-spare-Jews blurt-out? Paging Dr. Freud again!<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_17\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Actually, you don\u2019t really need serious psychoanalytic chops to figure this one out. RFK\u2019s repressed, unconscious hostility to Zionists, kept under wraps by his hyper-Zionist reaction formation, found a way of expressing itself. So although RFK was never consciously aware that what he was saying sounded a whole lot like \u201cCOVID was targeted to spare the Jews,\u201d his unconscious mind was all-too-aware, and indeed put those equivocal words right into his mouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_18\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Like the classic Freudian slip, this kind of blurt-out scenario illustrates how the unconscious mind can occasionally short-circuit the conscious mind and speak unspeakable truths. Translation: \u201c<em>Outrageous Jewish anti-goy conspiracies are not always imaginary.<\/em>\u201d So the paranoid reaction of people like Debby Wasserman Schulz is not quite as crazy as it sounds: Debby\u2019s unconscious is getting the gist of what Bobby\u2019s unconscious is saying, and she doesn\u2019t like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_19\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>Intergenerational Trauma<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_20\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The psychiatric symptoms on both sides stem from deeply-rooted intergenerational trauma. RFK Jr., of course, grew up with the trauma of his president-uncle\u2019s dastardly murder in 1963, and his father\u2019s equally dastardly murder (presumably by the same parties) in 1968. A modern-day Hamlet, he spent his formative years under tremendous social pressure to refrain from challenging his fathers\u2019 and uncles\u2019 murderers. We could also speculate about the Kennedy family\u2019s roots in the holocausted earth of Ireland\u2014the Irish have suffered real genocide and persecution to more than rival the Jews\u2019 mostly-mythical suffering at the hands of alleged anti-Semites who supposedly hate them for no reason whatsoever\u2014but let\u2019s not go there, lest some of my less-enlightened readers start succumbing to\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_christopher-fogarty-on-irish-holocaust-denial\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/audio\/kbarrett_christopher-fogarty-on-irish-holocaust-denial\/\" rel=\"\">Irish Holocaust denial<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_21\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">On Wasserman-Schulz\u2019s side, the intergenerational trauma is apparently so horrific that it can only be cured by psychedelic drugs. In \u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/554342\/mdma-shows-promise-for-healing-ptsd-and-political-extremism\/\" href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/opinion\/554342\/mdma-shows-promise-for-healing-ptsd-and-political-extremism\/\" rel=\"\">Can We Cure Anti-Semitism with Molly?<\/a>\u201d the Jewish Daily Forward\u2019s senior editor Rob Eshman opens with a question:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"p_1_22\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\"><strong>\u201cIf you learned that a single pill had led a neo-Nazi to renounce his hateful beliefs, would you:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Demand more research to find out if the pill really works<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ignore existing evidence and continue to outlaw the pill?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"p_1_23\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Eshman notes that Israel, the world\u2019s MDMA capital, uses the \u201clove drug\u201d to treat PTSD. We may imagine that child-murdering IDF snipers like the \u201c<a title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/495056754561265665\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/495056754561265665\" rel=\"\">I shot 13 kids today<\/a>\u201d tweeter are gradually eased back into what passes for Israeli normalcy with the help of psychedelic sessions that rewire their brains for love (of fellow Zionist Jews at least) instead of\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/world\/mid-east\/israeli-lawmakers-kill-all-palestinians-remarks-resurface\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/world\/mid-east\/israeli-lawmakers-kill-all-palestinians-remarks-resurface\" rel=\"\">drooling 24\/7\/365 hatred of Palestinian kids (\u201clittle snakes\u201d) and the mothers who bear them<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_24\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">But can MDMA cure Zionist Jewry of its 3000-year-old collective case of PTSD? To answer that question, we would need to know whether individual Jews really suffer the pain experienced by their persecuted ancestors.\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/aug\/21\/study-of-holocaust-survivors-finds-trauma-passed-on-to-childrens-genes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2015\/aug\/21\/study-of-holocaust-survivors-finds-trauma-passed-on-to-childrens-genes\" rel=\"\">Scientists are working hard to convince us that they do<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"i_1\" class=\"image imagecenter container\">\n<div class=\"image-holder\"><a href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18f557d0-0ea4-4a9b-a888-f2c791f8211e_1082x1110.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F18f557d0-0ea4-4a9b-a888-f2c791f8211e_1082x1110.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1_25\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">An alternative explanation of why so many ultra-privileged Jews experience so much suffering from historical collective memories blames culture, not genetics. The film\u00a0<em><a title=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1377278\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1377278\/\" rel=\"\">Defamation<\/a><\/em>\u00a0memorably shows Israeli children being horrifically traumatized by their elders, who drum it into their impressionable little heads that the goys all want to exterminate them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_26\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">And speaking of Jews traumatizing Jews, what about infant circumcision? Paging Dr. Bowlby!<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_27\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Attachment studies have shown that very young children\u2014babies, really\u2014are extremely vulnerable to psychological trauma. A terrible experience at eight months of age or even earlier is likely to ruin your life in a way that a vastly worse experience at a later age might not. Traumatic experiences involving damage to the mother-child bond, in particular, seem to be responsible for much if not most of the world\u2019s misery. (Moral: To form a happy and peaceful person, keep the baby in skin-to-skin contact with the mother, and breastfeed on demand, for the first two years of life, as many traditional cultures do.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_28\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">What you do NOT want to do is rip the baby out of the mother\u2019s arms and inflict unspeakable torture by carving up the most sensitive part of its anatomy with a knife. This will wreck the mother-child bond due to the mother\u2019s perceived betrayal of her child (and create overcompensation in the form of the Jewish mother syndrome) while forming an unconscious memory of a horrific attack by a terrifying outsider. Later in life, the child will be culturally conditioned to transfer its fear and loathing onto the imaginary figure of a new terrifying outsider: the evil goy who wants to kill us. It\u2019s the perfect formula for creating a profoundly neurotic, powerfully ethnocentric group identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_29\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">So to summarize: RFK Jr.\u2019s dysfunctional relationship with Zionism\u2014which stems from the willingness of traumatized Zionists like Ben Gurion to commit outrageous crimes in order to preserve the nuclear weapons they imagine they need to save their lives from the evil Jew-hating goys\u2014is a complete mess. I doubt that even the best therapist, armed with all the MDMA in Israel, could effect a cure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/kbarrett\/rfk-jr-and-the-jews\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/kbarrett\/rfk-jr-and-the-jews\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}