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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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Representative to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during the UN General Assembly emergency special session, on December 12 in New York City. Getty Images via AFP
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America's stubborn Gaza policy is drawing it into isolation

The Biden administration's unwillingness to call for a ceasefire has become apparent to the world

CommentDecember 18, 2023
Communal workers cover a window of a damaged house on Monday after a Russian shelling in Kyiv. AFP
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Could a US budget fight end the Ukraine war?

Kyiv's day of reckoning may be here, as citizens of the West seek a swift end to the expensive conflict

CommentDecember 11, 2023
US President Joe Biden addresses the nation on the conflict between Israel and Gaza in Washington on October 19. AFP
The US can fix the Palestine-Israel issue with two words

Biden needs to say 'No' to Israel and 'Yes' to support a UN Security Council resolution recognising Palestine as a state

CommentDecember 07, 2023
Protesters hold a vigil as part of a demonstration organised by the South African Jews for a free Palestine, in Johannesburg last week. EPA
Why definitions matter in the Israel-Gaza war

It is imperative to break through the stranglehold of imposed definitions and demand peace with justice

CommentDecember 01, 2023
People march as they gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) at Columbia University on November 20 in New York City. Getty Images via AFP
It's time to stop silencing young Americans who speak up for Palestine

Pro-Palestinian support was always going to be countered but the virulence of some pro-Israel attacks is worrying

CommentNovember 22, 2023
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks at a news conference in Washington on Monday calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. AFP
Will the Israel-Gaza war break Biden's Democratic Party?

Debate is healthy, but the party leadership should recognise the cadre needs their support

CommentNovember 15, 2023
US President Joe Biden leaves Saint Edmond Catholic Church in Delaware after attending mass on Sunday. AFP
Can Biden win back Arab-American voters?

There is a big drop in support for the US President over his stance on the Israel-Gaza war

CommentNovember 09, 2023
A rally in support of Israel at University of California, Berkeley campus on October 27 AP
Are the heavy-handed tactics by pro-Israel groups in the US working?

The heavy-handed tactics used by pro-Israel groups in US politics are creating discomfort but are they working?

CommentNovember 02, 2023
Mourners attend a funeral for Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 24. Reuters
All Palestinians are not Hamas

Besides being plain racist and untrue, statements such as 'all Palestinians are Hamas' are disproved by data

CommentOctober 26, 2023
Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes on northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. EPA
How the US missed a chance to nip the Israel-Gaza war in the bud

There are two lessons from the past that the relevant stakeholders should have heeded

CommentOctober 17, 2023
Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in the Israeli strikes, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip October 10, 2023. REUTERS / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Israel-Gaza: US failures of this and past administrations

'I mainly fault successive US administrations for failing to play its self-proclaimed role of promoter of human rights and peace'

CommentOctober 10, 2023
People hold Israeli and US flags as they take part in a demonstration against Israel's coalition government's judicial overhaul as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Joe Biden in New York, near the US Consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 20. Reuters
For Palestinian Americans, Israel entering the Visa Waiver Programme is a disappointment

Arab Americans who supported Biden feel they deserve better

CommentOctober 04, 2023
Barriers outside the US Capitol in Washington. Dysfunction in Congress is one of the American political system's many challenges. Bloomberg
American democracy is fixable – on paper

Sensible proposals exist, but they require government to reform itself

CommentSeptember 26, 2023
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres at the Hilton hotel in Taba, Egypt, September 1995. AP Photo
The Oslo Accords were a cry for help, but the US ignored it

Instead of playing the role of guarantor, Washington made the mistake of leaving Palestine and Israel to take the deal forward

CommentSeptember 18, 2023
Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands watched by Bill Clinton after the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993. J David Ake
I supported the Oslo Accords as they shattered a taboo

For the generation that grew up under the cloud of anti-Palestinian bigotry and Arab American exclusion, the handshake on September 13, 1993, had enormous significance

CommentSeptember 11, 2023
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