RFK Jr. Faces Calls for Removal After Denying Arab Scientific Contributions in Michigan
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparked widespread condemnation after claiming at a campaign event that Arabs do not produce science, literature, or win major international awards. Critics and fact-checkers highlighted numerous Arab Nobel laureates and historical contributions to mathematics and medicine, labeling the remarks racist and Islamophobic. The comments were made in Michigan, a state with a large Arab American population, during a contentious Senate race between Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. The Council on American-Islamic Relations called for Kennedy’s removal, while Kennedy linked the lack of modern Arab achievements to the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.