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How anti-Arab rhetoric became a political weapon in America’s midterm elections

LONDON: For the Arab Americans of Michigan, whose backing was credited with having helped to return Donald Trump to the presidency, there was perhaps more than a little irony in the president’s health secretary choosing the state as the platform for his anti-Arab comments on Monday. Speaking at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that Arabs “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 do