James Zogby
Dr. James J. Zogby is the author of Arab Voices (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2010) and the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the U.S. Through voter registration, education and mobilization, AAI has moved Arab Americans into the political mainstream.
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Views Monday, June 29, 2020 What Jamaal Bowman's Historic Win Represents for the Palestinian People On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, Jamaal Bowman made history by winning the Democratic Party primary in New York State’s 16th Congressional District. Here’s why his victory is so significant. Bowman beat Eliot Engel, a 16-term incumbent Congressman who served as Chair of the House Committee on Foreign... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 11, 2020 The End of US Empire: Covid-19 Exposes Once-Great Superpower as Epic Failure “And all the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again.” I am following worldwide commentary about my country’s disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic with equal measures of frustration, fury, and embarrassment. Writers from Europe, the Arab World... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 06, 2020 The Political Toll of COVID-19 The COVID-19 crisis is taking a human and economic toll everywhere across the U.S. An additional casualty may be what it does to our political parties and our electoral processes, which were already struggling in a weakened state and may not survive the onslaught of this crisis. Take, for example,... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 10, 2019 A Second Nakba in the Making Two years ago Friday, President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. We knew then that this was an irresponsible and cruelly insensitive act that would do grave harm to the rights and well-being of Palestinians and put an end to any pretense that the United States could... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 25, 2019 Netanyahu's Real Crimes After years of investigation and months of delay, Israel's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes ranging from his violation of public trust to bribery and fraud. Israel's apologists will argue that the fact that a sitting Prime Minister has been charged... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 16, 2019 An Israeli Election That Will Decide Nothing Before a single vote is cast in Israel's second national election this year, two disturbing facts are clear: the outcome will be as muddled as it was after the April contest and whoever wins, despite the permanent state of denial in which Western liberals find themselves, Israel/Palestine has... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 03, 2019 Addressing Those Who Have Been Fooled All of the Time It was more than a century and a half ago that Abraham Lincoln told us, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." While the wisdom behind these words is clear, what has long confounded me is,... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 29, 2019 The Abuse of Religion to Foster Extremism Is a Universal Phenomenon When Americans express concern about religious extremism and violence, they almost always are thinking about Islam. The problems posed by the politicization and weaponization of religion, however, are deeper, more widespread, and more dangerous. Several years ago, I moderated a panel discussion on... Read more |
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Views Monday, July 15, 2019 Two Congressional Resolutions That Won’t Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace In the coming week, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will move on four bills – all of which, I believe, drive more nails in the coffin of Israeli-Palestinian peace. While two of the proposed bills are blatantly pro-Israel, it is the two more benign pieces of legislation that cause me real... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Jared Kushner’s Bahrain Conference Won’t Work Twenty-five years ago, Vice President Al Gore asked the two of us to head up a project he was launching to promote Palestinian economic development in support of the still fledgling Oslo peace process. Our effort was called Builders for Peace and brought together an impressive group of American... Read more |