RFK Jr. faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced widespread rebuke from civil rights groups, health care advocates and Democrats on Tuesday over anti-Arab comments that the Council on American-Islamic Relations cast as “a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry.”

In his remarks Monday at a campaign event in Michigan where Republican Mike Rogers is running for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Kennedy falsely claimed that Arabs had not won major international awards and “don’t produce” science and literature.

“There’s 500 million Arabs in the world, and yet they don’t produce science, they don’t win the Nobel Prize, they don’t win