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Hi Friend,
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his candidacy for president earlier this year, I informed my reader community that he had earned my respect and support.
In part as an expression of my support, I wrote numerous articles and an e-book debunking mainstream media misinformation about him with respect to vaccines and COVID-19-related issues.
It is with great regret that I can no longer support his candidacy because of his defense of Israel's ongoing war crimes in Gaza.
He and I have different views on a number of different issues, such as economic matters and climate change. But I felt that our differing views in such areas were no obstacle to me supporting him because of his great leadership in defending health freedom, particularly in light of the authoritarianism and medical tyranny we saw in response to COVID-19, and also because of his otherwise very sensible views on matters of US foreign policy, such as the war in Ukraine.
However, I have also expressed in past articles during prior election cycles that there are certain stances on certain issues that in my view are disqualifying. It's why I have only ever voted for one candidate before (which was Ron Paul, in 2008 and as a write-in in 2012).
Defending war crimes crosses one of those lines for me. And make no mistake, Israel's deliberate use of disproportionate force grossly violates international humanitarian law. It is absolutely indefensible. There is no possible justification for Israel's horrific violence against the civilian population of Gaza.
Many of my readers have been expecting me to say something and express my stance with respect to RFK Jr's candidacy, and some have written me to express bewilderment about my silence about it for over a month while Israel's genocidal assault has been underway.
The truth is I have been maintaining the hope that he might reconsider his views about the conflict and speak out against the violence, including by joining those calling for a ceasefire so that urgently needed humanitarian aid can be delivered -- including food, potable water, and fuel that hospitals need to run generators to care for the wounded and the 5,500 pregnant women expecting to give birth in the next two weeks.
Yet with now over 11,000 Palestinians killed, including over 3,000 women and over 4,500 children, I see no indication that he is coming around. I can no longer remain silent hoping that he will speak out against Israel's war crimes. He continues, as far as I have seen, to try to justify Israel's indefensible brutality.
Since I have been public about my support for his candidacy, I need to also be public about my withdrawal of that support. I feel I owed it to you, my dear subscribers, to finally state my position, consistent with my mission and core values. So there you have it.
I am not without hope, though. I have gained a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for Mr. Kennedy over the years. While I've never met him in person, we have corresponded on many occasions, including numerous phone conversations, and I consider him a friend. I believe if he were to come into an understanding of the true nature of the conflict rather than believing Zionist propaganda narratives, he would change his position.
If you share my perspective on this matter and would like to let him know how you feel, as I have already done, here is a form on his campaign's website where you can select issues that are important to you as well as to type in an answer to the question "What keeps you up at night?"
I encourage you to write in a few words urging him to speak out against Israel's war crimes and to join those calling for a ceasefire, for the sake of humanity.
In case you missed it, to gain a proper understanding of the conflict's origin, as opposed to believing popular myths, read the article I published on November 2, the 106th anniversary of the infamous "Balfour Declaration", which set Great Britain on a policy course that ultimately facilitated the ethnic cleansing of Palestine: |
