American anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday for suggesting issues are worse for individuals right now than they had been for Anne Frank, the teenager who died in a Nazi focus camp after hiding together with her household in a secret annex in an Amsterdam home for 2 years.
Kennedy's feedback, made at a Washington rally on Sunday placed on by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group, had been broadly condemned as offensive, outrageous and traditionally ignorant. It is the second time since 2015 that Kennedy has apologized for referencing the Holocaust throughout his work sowing doubt and mistrust about vaccines.
"I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, particularly to households that suffered the Holocaust horrors," Kennedy stated in a tweet Tuesday morning. "My intention was to make use of examples of previous barbarism to indicate the perils from new applied sciences of management. To the extent my remarks prompted harm, I'm really and deeply sorry."
Kennedy's spouse, the actress Cheryl Hines of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm," distanced herself from her husband in her personal tweet about 20 minutes later. She known as the reference to Anne Frank "reprehensible and insensitive."
"The atrocities that tens of millions endured through the Holocaust ought to by no means be in comparison with anybody or something. His opinions usually are not a mirrored image of my very own," Hines tweeted.
Kennedy, a nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the son of his slain brother, former U.S. legal professional basic, civil rights activist and Democratic presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy, on Sunday had complained that the nation's main infectious illness physician, Anthony Fauci, was orchestrating "fascism."
"Even in Hitler's Germany, you would cross the Alps to Switzerland. You may conceal in an attic like Anne Frank did," he informed the group.
An investigation by The Related Press final month discovered that Kennedy has invoked the spectre of Nazis and the Holocaust when speaking about public well being measures meant to save lots of lives through the pandemic, reminiscent of requiring masks or vaccine mandates.
Final month, for instance, he put out a video that confirmed Fauci in a Hitler mustache. In an October speech to the Ron Paul Institute, he obliquely in contrast public well being measures put in place by governments world wide to Nazi propaganda meant to scare individuals into abandoning important considering.
Kennedy apologized in 2015 after he used the phrase "holocaust" to explain youngsters whom he believes had been harm by vaccines.
In his Tuesday apology, Kennedy didn't handle his previous invocations of Nazis, Hitler and the Holocaust when discussing vaccines. Representatives of his nonprofit, Kids's Well being Protection, didn't return emails asking about his previous feedback.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is broadcast on a big display as he speaks throughout an anti-vaccine rally in entrance of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, on Jan. 23, 2022. (Patrick Semansky / AP)
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