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James Zogby

James Zogby

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After receiving his PhD in Comparative Religions and Middle East Studies and then teaching for a number of years, Dr James Zogby began a career in politics. During the past five decades, he founded a number of Arab-American civil rights organisations, served in a leadership role in the Democratic Party and in five Democratic presidential campaigns, and received appointments from both presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He also founded Zogby Research Services, which has conducted groundbreaking public opinion polling across the Middle East.
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A demonstrator walks past a portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv. AFP
CommentOn Palestine at the UN, it's Netanyahu versus the world

There's more than recognition of a Palestinian state at stake next week

CommentJune 09, 2025
James Zogby
A woman lays flowers and a flag at the site of the attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse in Boulder, Colorado. AFP
CommentViolence in the name of Palestine is unacceptable. It also harms the movement

The deplorable attacks in Washington and Colorado do little more than serve some narcissistic fantasy

CommentJune 03, 2025
James Zogby
Children in Khan Younis, Gaza, petrified of Israeli air raids. Getty
Rebuilding Gaza would be incomplete without healing the psychological wounds

The hearts and minds of ordinary Palestinians are just as important as the bricks and mortar

OpinionMay 27, 2025
James Zogby
Palestinians amid the rubble of a family home destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. AP
CommentHamas’s tactics and Israel’s wars have become ends in themselves

By ignoring practicalities and continuing the bloodshed, each side's stated goals are far from being realised

CommentMay 20, 2025
James Zogby
Jailed pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil at a demonstration on the Columbia University campus in New York in October 2023. Getty Images / AFP
Civil discourse must have a place in a divided world

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I became aware of the broader applications of simple lessons in listening and civil discourse

OpinionMay 12, 2025
James Zogby
Israeli tanks positioned near the border with Gaza. AFP
CommentUS should listen to growing number of Republicans who want tougher Israel policy

Polling shows it isn't just Democrats anymore who want a fairer Middle East policy for Washington

OpinionMay 06, 2025
James Zogby
Pope Francis, right, with Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, addresses the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in Vatican City, April 2022. EPA
CommentThe Catholic Church remains divided, but there is hope

The departed pontiff didn't directly challenge conservative positions but his gestures had an immediate affect

CommentApril 29, 2025
James Zogby
A Ramadan parade on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City. AFP
CommentThe profiling of Arabs in America did not start with Trump

It was in Reagan's time that US extradition law was rewritten, which made it easier to extradite people without due process

CommentApril 21, 2025
James Zogby
US President Donald Trump listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference at the White House in February. AP
US's 'Israel exception' is starting to restrict Americans' basic freedom

The situation has allowed Israel to operate with impunity, and taken a toll on Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians and others

CommentApril 15, 2025
James Zogby
An elderly woman mourns victims that were killed by Israeli air strikes in Deir Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on April 8. AFP
CommentAnti-Hamas sentiment in Gaza is nothing new

Neither is the pro-Fatah sentiment a novelty. But the varying interpretations of the public protests appear to miss the point

CommentApril 09, 2025
James Zogby
Israel's embattled Prime Minister is being prosecuted for corruption. AFP
CommentNetanyahu threw away the Gaza ceasefire to save himself in Israel

The Prime Minister needed an escape from his legal and political troubles, at the cost of yet more Palestinian lives

CommentMarch 31, 2025
James Zogby
Signs from activists with the Sunrise Movement sit outside the US Department of Education on March 20, in Washington. Donald Trump signed an executive order to dissolve the Education Department. Getty
Trump's war on history and education are at odds with American greatness

A directive lays bare Trump’s intention to roll back the gains that have been made over the past half a century

CommentMarch 25, 2025
James Zogby
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Columbia University campus to mark one year of the war between Hamas and Israel in New York City on October 7, 2024. AFP
CommentUS attack on freedom of speech is not doing ‘Brand America’ any favours

America's intolerance to the perceived notion of anti-Semitism is a crude effort to silence and punish critics and is damaging America's image around the world

CommentMarch 18, 2025
James Zogby
Palestinian Muslims wait under the rain to cross an Israeli checkpoint in Qalandia in the occupied West Bank to attend the first Friday prayers of the fasting month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest site, on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
CommentBefore Trump’s ‘Riviera’, there was a vision for Gaza - Israel scuppered it

Unlike the US President’s proposal, one discussed three decades ago would have benefited Palestinians

CommentMarch 11, 2025
James Zogby
Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on February 11. Reuters
CommentMusk’s attack on Arab-American organisations is dangerous

I take it seriously when a person as powerful and well-positioned as Elon Musk charges my institute with being a supporter of terrorism

CommentMarch 05, 2025
James Zogby
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