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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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      Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather outside the UN headquarters in New York before members of the UN Security Council meet to vote on a draft resolution to authorise an International Stabilisation Force in Gaza last month. AFP
      CommentUS voters are changing their stance on Israel - so should political elites

      As the country gets closer to the 2026 midterm elections, it can expect more candidates to publicly distance themselves from Israeli policies

      CommentDecember 08, 2025
      A local resident inspects a damaged car in front of a damaged residential building following an air attack in Kyiv on Saturday, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. AFP
      CommentComparing the Gaza and Ukraine ceasefire plans is to liken apples with oranges

      Experts have pointed to a few similarities, but the differences are important to note

      CommentDecember 01, 2025
      The swearing in of 150 new US citizens from 52 countries during a ceremony, in New York City. Getty Images
      CommentMy father, like so many other immigrants, built the US

      From the late 19th Century onwards, immigrants arrived in the US from Greater Syria, sought opportunity and thrived

      CommentNovember 25, 2025
      The Annual Veterans Day Ceremony on November 11, in Quincy, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe via Getty Images
      The First World War changed the Middle East, not for the last time

      100 years on, the world is still living with the consequences of self-serving European decisions

      CommentNovember 18, 2025
      Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcoming Joe Biden in Tel Aviv in October 2023. Mr Biden cautioned Mr Netanyahu not to make the same mistakes the US made following 9/11. Reuters
      CommentAre Israel's days of near-complete US backing numbered?

      Netanyahu’s overreach, supported by the US, has transformed the Middle East but not for the better

      CommentNovember 11, 2025
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      Mamdani’s support for Palestine is no reason for Jews to feel threatened

      Billionaire donors have poured tens of millions into ads that ironically have used anti-Muslim tropes to defame and smear Mamdani and his community

      CommentNovember 03, 2025
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      CommentThe US has risen to bigger challenges and it'll get past this one

      There have always been two Americas: one pushing to restrict democratic freedoms and the other working to expand them. Both have defined the country's history

      CommentOctober 28, 2025
      Members of the US Congress attend a candlelight vigil one month after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel in 2023. American politicians need to hear more stories from the Palestinian side. AFP
      CommentReshaping US policy to favour Palestinians is a hearts and minds operation

      More regular interactions between Palestinian Americans and members of the US Congress are necessary

      CommentOctober 21, 2025
      Syrian security forces stand guard as residents leave the Sheikh Maqsoud and Achrafieh neighbourhoods of Aleppo, after clashes. AP
      CommentIs national unity in Syria going to remain a pipe dream?

      The new government in Syria may have overthrown the old regime, but it remains to be seen whether they can govern the more complex and diverse Syrian polity

      CommentOctober 14, 2025
      The reasons behind a wide range of interpretations about the Gaza peace plan’s intentions include the Arabs’ lack of trust in Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. EPA
      Trump's Gaza peace plan is just a start – now the hard work begins

      It is far from being 'one of the great days in human history', as the US President describes it

      CommentOctober 05, 2025
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      CommentCharlie Kirk's death is a political issue – don't bring religion into it

      Americans shouldn't abuse religious language believing it adds weight to their politics

      OpinionSeptember 30, 2025
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      CommentWhen are America's Democrats finally going to present their own 'MAGA'?

      The left is still operating on an old playbook that is destined for electoral failure

      CommentSeptember 23, 2025
      Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gather in New York for the Mass March for Humanity demonstration. Getty Images
      CommentUS voters want the Gaza war to end. The Democrats should listen to them

      Party consultants are mistaken when they claim the electorate are scared of progressive policies on Palestine

      CommentSeptember 16, 2025
      Then-US president George W Bush being informed of the 9/11 attacks. Following the terror attacks, the Bush administration lost control of its policymaking. Reuters
      Trump is repeating Bush's mistakes as US president

      The outcome is the immense damage done to America as well as to the rest of the world

      CommentSeptember 08, 2025
      A boy climbs out of the rubble of a collapsed building that was hit by bombardment in the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday. AFP
      CommentDemocratic Party panel's rejection of Gaza resolutions a step forward

      That the Democratic National Committee has created a task force to examine facets of the conflict is very encouraging

      CommentSeptember 02, 2025
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