华盛顿——美国卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪因其反阿拉伯言论，于10月27日遭到民权团体、医疗倡导者和民主党人的广泛谴责，美伊关系委员会将其斥为“赤裸裸的种族主义和偏见的教科书式展示”。他在10月26日密歇根州的一场竞选活动上发表上述言论，当时共和党人迈克·罗杰斯正在竞选联邦参议员，对手是民主党人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德。美国卫生部长错误声称阿拉伯人未曾获得重大国际奖项，且“不产出”科学和文学成果。
WASHINGTON - US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced widespread rebuke from civil rights groups, healthcare advocates and Democrats on Oct 27 over his anti-Arab comments that the Council on American-Islamic Relations cast as “a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry.”In his remarks on Oct 26 at a campaign event in Michigan where Republican Mike Rogers is running for the US Senate against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, the US health secretary falsely claimed that Arabs had not won major international awards and “don’t produce” science and literature.
“全世界有5亿阿拉伯人，但他们不产出科学，不获得诺贝尔奖，不获得菲尔兹奖，不获得沃尔夫奖，不产出文学，”这位美国卫生部长说道。阿拉伯人实际上获得过所有这些奖项。
“There’s 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,” the US health chief said. Arabs have won all those prizes.
贝勒医学院教授、专攻疫苗开发和热带医学的彼得·霍特兹表示，他已故的同事、诺贝尔奖得主艾哈迈德·泽韦尔是阿拉伯人，于2016年去世，他“会不同意”这位美国卫生部长的言论。美国卫生与公众服务部未立即回应置评请求。
Peter Hotez, who is a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine and specialises in vaccine development and tropical medicine, said his late colleague, Nobel Prize winner Ahmed Zewail, who was Arab and died in 2016, “would disagree” with the US health chief’s comments. The Department of Health and Human Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
美国权益倡导者对总统唐纳德·特朗普及其盟友在正在进行的中期选举竞选期间，针对穆斯林、阿拉伯人、移民和少数族裔的言论不断升级表示担忧。
US rights advocates have raised concerns over escalating rhetoric against Muslims, Arabs, immigrants and ethnic minorities by President Donald Trump and his allies during the ongoing midterm election campaign.
“小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪卑鄙的反阿拉伯咆哮是赤裸裸的种族主义和偏见的教科书式展示，”记录美国针对穆斯林和阿拉伯人仇恨事件的美伊关系委员会于10月27日表示。
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vile anti-Arab rant is a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which documents hate against Muslims and Arabs in the US, said on Oct 27.
“他在抹杀阿拉伯人对人类的贡献方面大刀阔斧，这不仅是恶意的谎言，而且在社区已经容易遭受全国其他公职人员的偏见攻击之际，还在助长反阿拉伯和反穆斯林的仇恨情绪。”
“His sweeping erasure of Arab contributions to humanity is not only maliciously false, but it also fans the flames of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate at a time when communities are already vulnerable to bigoted attacks from other public officials nationwide.”
肯尼迪表示，穆斯林兄弟会——阿拉伯世界最古老、最有影响力的伊斯兰主义团体之一，成立近一个世纪以来——已经“造成了停滞的社会”。共和党人声称，尽管这位民主党人已公开与穆斯林兄弟会划清界限并否认与其有任何联系，但埃尔-萨耶德与该组织有牵连，但他们未提供证据。
Kennedy said the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist groups founded almost a century ago, has “created stagnant societies.”Republicans have claimed, without evidence, El-Sayed has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood even as the Democrat has publicly disavowed the group and denied any connection to it.
身为穆斯林的埃尔-萨耶德在竞选期间遭遇了一系列反穆斯林攻击。
El-Sayed, who is Muslim, has faced a host of anti-Muslim attacks during the campaign.
周末，特朗普在谈及埃尔-萨耶德时援引了2001年9月11日的袭击事件，他也曾多次错误地称埃尔-萨耶德为“圣战者”。美国民主党参议员克里斯·墨菲也对这位美国卫生部长的言论作出了回应。
Over the weekend, Trump invoked the Sept 11, 2001, attacks when speaking about El-Sayed, whom he has also repeatedly and falsely called a “jihadist.”Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy also responded to the US health secretary’s comments.
“我真的认为每个人都需要关注这场旨在剥夺穆斯林美国人合法性的协同行动——不仅是作为公民，更是作为人类。”
“I really think everyone needs to pay attention to this coordinated campaign to delegitimise Muslim Americans – not just as citizens but as humans.”
美国医疗倡导组织和非营利机构“保护我们的医疗”将肯尼迪的言论定性为“极其种族主义的咆哮”。
US healthcare advocacy organisation and nonprofit Protect Our Care cast Kennedy’s comments as a “wildly racist tirade.”
作为最高卫生官员，肯尼迪一直在推行其反疫苗观点，他于10月26日也在密歇根州，为底特律卫生部门争取资金，并吹嘘已与医院达成协议，提供更健康的食品。
Kennedy, who has pushed his anti-vaccine views in his role as the top health official, was also in Michigan on Oct 26 to promote funding for Detroit’s health department and touted agreements with hospitals to offer healthier food.