Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of Health, said at a Republican rally that Arabs do not produce science, literature, or win Nobel prizes—claims quickly condemned as factually incorrect and racially biased. The statement contradicts documented evidence of Arab scientific and literary contributions across history and contemporary fields. Critics cited multiple Arab and Arab-origin Nobel Prize winners, including Muhammad Yunus, Naguib Mahfouz, and Ahmed Zewail, as well as extensive Arab scholarship in mathematics, medicine, and the humanities.
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