u.s. Health Secretary Insults 500 Million Arabs — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Denies Their Scientific and Literary Achievements in an Openly Racist Campaign Speech!
October 27, 2026 | Michigan, United States
In remarks that sparked widespread outrage, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacked Arab peoples during a Republican campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday, October 26.
Kennedy was campaigning in support of Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers, who is running against Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, an American of Egyptian descent.
What Exactly did Kennedy Say?
“There are 500 million Arabs in the world. And yet they don’t produce science. They don’t win the Nobel Prize. They don’t win the Fields Prize. They don’t win the Wolf Prize. They don’t produce literature.”
Kennedy went further, blaming the Muslim Brotherhood for what he described as the destruction of Arab civilization’s intellectual heritage. He also accused societies influenced by the organization of being consumed by hatred, war, and a sense of victimhood.
But the issue is not his criticism of a political organization. It is his decision to turn that criticism into a collective insult against hundreds of millions of people.
First | History and Facts Contradict the American Secretary
Apparently, the health secretary of the world’s leading scientific power did not bother to check the records of the very awards he cited!
• 🇪🇬 Ahmed Zewail: Egyptian scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 and the Wolf Prize in 1993.
• 🇪🇬 Naguib Mahfouz: Egyptian novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
• 🇯🇴 Omar Yaghi: Jordan-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025 and the Wolf Prize in 2018.
• 🇾🇪 Tawakkol Karman: Yemeni journalist and activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
These are merely a few documented examples, without even revisiting the contributions of Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Razi, Ibn al-Nafis, and countless other scholars who helped shape humanity’s scientific knowledge.
The irony is extraordinary: a government official whose responsibilities should be guided by scientific evidence made claims that could be disproved within minutes by consulting the official Nobel and Wolf Prize records!
Second | Why did Kennedy Make These Remarks Now?
Kennedy’s statements cannot be separated from the increasingly heated electoral battle in Michigan.
Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, an American Muslim physician of Egyptian descent, has been facing a Republican campaign involving allegations of connections to the Muslim Brotherhood — allegations he has publicly denied.
In this context, a candidate’s Arab and Muslim identity is transformed from a personal background into a political weapon used to frighten voters and cast doubt on his national and political loyalty.
Even more concerning is that these remarks were delivered in a state home to one of the largest Arab-American communities in the United States, just days before the November 3 elections.