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CAIR Demands Kennedy’s Removal Over Anti-Arab Remarks

By Drooid · Oct 28, 2026, 06:14 UTC · How we work

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made anti-Arab remarks at a Michigan event with Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed.
He claimed 500 million Arabs don’t produce science, Nobel, Fields or Wolf Prizes, or literature.
Council on American-Islamic Relations called the comments textbook racism and demanded Kennedy’s removal.
Senator Chris Murphy warned the remarks were part of a coordinated campaign to delegitimize Muslim Americans.

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made anti-Arab remarks at a Michigan event with Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed.
He claimed 500 million Arabs don’t produce science, Nobel, Fields or Wolf Prizes, or literature.
Council on American-Islamic Relations called the comments textbook racism and demanded Kennedy’s removal.
Senator Chris Murphy warned the remarks were part of a coordinated campaign to delegitimize Muslim Americans.