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RFK Jr.: '500 million Arabs… don't produce science,' Nobel records rebut him
October 27, 2026 at 01:30 PM
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يواليوم السابع
نصف مليار لا ينتجون علما.. وزير صحة ترامب يسئ لـ«العرب» ونيوزويك تعلق
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نصف مليار لا ينتجون علما.. وزير صحة ترامب يسىء للعرب ونيوزويك تعلق
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AJAl Jazeera Arabic
"500 مليون عربي لا ينتجون العلم".. كينيدي يهاجم العرب والجمهور يرد بسجلات "نوبل"
(opens the publisher’s site)US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a Michigan campaign rally that the Arab world produces no science or Nobel laureates.
- Kennedy said "there are 500 million Arabs in the world" who "don't produce science," win no Nobel, Fields, or Wolf prizes, and "don't produce literature."
- Kennedy made the remarks while discussing the Muslim Brotherhood, calling people under its influence a "cult of death" and saying "talking about them is not Islamophobia."
- Newsweek reported the remarks contradict Nobel records, citing Ahmed Zewail's 1999 chemistry prize and Naguib Mahfouz's 1988 literature prize.
- The remarks came in Michigan, home to the highest share of Arab-ancestry residents of any US state, about 2.2 percent per 2024 census data.