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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University, in Fort Myers, Florida, October 23, 2026. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday defended himself against accusations of anti-Arab racism over a speech he gave last week, while doubling down on his claim that Arabs don’t produce science and comparing them to the Jews, whom he lauded as having contributed more to the welfare of humanity than any other ethnic group.

In a post to his X account that stretched for over 3,700 words, Kennedy said that “leftist mainstream media outlets” that were outraged at his earlier remarks “omitted critical context, presumably to bestow plausibility on their accusations that my statements were racist and Islamophobic.”

In his remarks on October 26 at a campaign event in Michigan where Republican Mike Rogers is running for the US Senate against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Kennedy falsely…