Dr. James Zogby
Co-founded the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community, in 1985 and continues to serve as its president. He is Director of Zogby Research Services, a firm that has conducted groundbreaking surveys across the Middle East.
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On September 10th, conservative Republican political activist Charlie Kirk was murdered while speaking at a rally on a college campus in Utah. The reactions to his death were immediate and sustained, reflecting the deep divisions that plague American society today.
For too many years now Democrats have focused on winning elections by appealing to what they have termed their “base” (young voters, Black, Latino, and Asian voters, and educated women). At the same time, they have largely abandoned white working class voters to Republicans—one reason why Democrats have lost too many recent federal and local elections across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states.
What to do or say about Israel’s war on Gaza has establishment Democratic consultants and the elected officials for whom they work in a tizzy.
Nothing good will come of the chaos that has already been created by the Trump administration. In just a few months, it’s taken a wrecking-ball to institutions, agencies, and programs.
While some supporters of Palestinian rights saw the developments at last week’s meeting of the Democratic National Committee as a defeat, it was, in fact, a victory. Here is what happened at the meeting and why I feel that progress was made.
Even though the bottom has fallen out of Democrats’ support for Israel, some in the party still can’t bring themselves to recognize this reality.
We’ve reached a sort of tipping point in the way political leaders in the West are reacting to Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians in Gaza. It’s maddening for two reasons: that it took this long to get an official response from Western capitals; and that, once the magnitude of the tragedy became clear, the responses have been so decidedly ineffectual.
Our understanding of an historical event’s meaning is a function of two factors. The first is what we choose to identify as the starting point leading up to the event. The second is the lens through which we view it.
American political parties are in disarray. Instead of being the engines that organize and drive our politics, their roles have been supplanted by partisan social media influencers, non-profit political groups, super PACs, and the billionaires who fund them and consultant groups they hire.
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Featured Television Appearances
Dr. James Zogby on BBC News to Discuss the Proposed American Peace Plan for Gaza
Dr. James Zogby on CNN News Central To Discuss Trumps Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Dr. James Zogby joins The Bad Faith Podcast hosted by Briahna Joy Gray to discuss his plan to replace Biden as the Democratic nominee for President.
Dr. James Zogby joined Democracy Now to discuss his plan to replace Joe Biden on the 2024 Democratic ticket.

Featured Book
The Tumultuous Decade.
This book brings together nearly a decade of Zogby Research Services (ZRS) public opinion polling in Arab countries, Turkey, and Iran—a period of great tumult across the Middle East and North Africa. Through polling, ZRS gives people a chance to speak for themselves—people who are often “spoken for” by governments or elites who think they know what the “local” people think, or even what they should think.
In Print
James Zogby is interviewed in an article for The Nation written by John Nichols. Published on January 27, 2025
James Zogby is interviewed in an article for The Nation written by John Nichols. Published on March 21, 2024.
James Zogby is interviewed in an article for Al Jazeera to discuss the impact of the Uncommitted movement in the Democratic party. Published on March 18, 2024.
James Zogby is interviewed in an article for BBC to discuss the political consequences of Biden’s actions in Gaza. Published on March 1, 2024.
Article by James Zogby
The Nation - For decades, we have faced death threats, political exclusion, and discrimination for our pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian work. It’s long past time for things to change.