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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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      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
      Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (R) meets US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, surrounded by Arafat's aides and bodyguards and members of Jackson's delegation after their meeting on July 29, 2002 in Arafat's besieged headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Getty Images
      Jesse Jackson taught me why I should stick with the Democratic Party, despite its failures

      Its stance over the Iraq War and 'dark money' have left me disappointed, but I will keep fighting the good fight

      CommentSeptember 06, 2023
      A supporter of former US president Donald Trump tours the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin before a televised debate between Republican presidential candidates on August 23. Mr Trump did not take part, but his presence still looms over the party. AFP
      The Republican Party's problems run deeper than Trump

      The GOP of Eisenhower and Reagan has lost control over its processes, ideology and even its brand

      CommentAugust 29, 2023
      Palestinian protesters hold flags during clashes with Israeli troops on the eastern borders of Gaza Strip on Monday. EPA
      A Saudi-Israeli deal that ticks all the boxes? Sounds too good to be true

      An agreement predicated on empowering Palestinians appears dead in the water

      CommentAugust 24, 2023
      A mural of Sinead O'Connor by Artist Emmalene Blake on Dame Lane in Dublin. PA
      The US could learn from Sinead O'Connor and reckon with its history

      The Irish singer's legacy is one of demanding accountability for past injustices

      CommentAugust 15, 2023
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