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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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      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      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
      US President Donald Trump at the National Governors Association Dinner in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, on February 22. EPA
      CommentTrump's second term could be shaping up to his advantage

      The big difference between Trump 2017 and Trump 2025 is that now he has a clearly defined agenda and is better prepared to impose it

      CommentFebruary 26, 2025
      Imad Hamad, executive director of the American Human Rights Council in Dearborn, Michigan. Arab Americans appear to be getting blamed in large part Trump’s presidential victory. AP
      CommentArab Americans are bearing the brunt of the anger at Trump's victory

      Trump’s policies are inadvertently creating a backlash from the left against Arab Americans

      CommentFebruary 10, 2025
      Trump says the US could 'own' Gaza and turn it into a 'riviera'. AP
      Trump doesn’t actually want to take Gaza, but he wants you to think he does

      The US President is using an old playbook of distraction to prevent real solutions to hard problems

      OpinionFebruary 05, 2025
      Freed Palestinian prisoners are greeted by a crowd as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis on Saturday. AP
      CommentTalks on phase two of Gaza ceasefire are due to start. But can it hold?

      It’s time for the US to stop compounding Palestinian suffering

      CommentFebruary 04, 2025
      People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street to cross the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip into the north. AFP
      CommentCan the Gaza ceasefire last?

      Long-term peace may not be possible but it remains to be seen if the ceasefire can progress even to the second phase

      CommentJanuary 28, 2025
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