James Zogby
James Zogby
James Joseph Zogbyfounder and president of the Arab American Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based organization which serves as a political and policy research arm of the Arab-American community. He is Managing Director of Zogby Research Services, LLC, specializing in research and communications and undertaking polling across the Arab world. In September 2013, Zogby was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom by President Obama. Zogby is a lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues and a Visiting Professor...
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The bottom line is that NSEERS is a failed and unfair program. An understaffed INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) couldn't implement the program and almost 14,000 of those who complied were placed in deportation proceedings.
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Societies, even those claiming to be just societies, are often built on the backs of an underclass ... What is happening in Paris now happened in the United States in the 1960s.
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What started this and drives this is bigotry.
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We see Arabs as an objectified problem. We see the culture as less than ours, we see them as more violent than we are.
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Bizarre policies were implemented by the government post-9/11, ... But the pendulum's going back because a whole lot of people are pushing it back.
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common consensus of Arab-Americans and Jewish-Americans for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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As long as these kids grow up not only in an economic underclass but excluded from being French or Dutch it's problematic. When people in my community get angry about American foreign policy they get angry as citizens and they fight back as citizens. The process is more open to including them.
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And the reason why people are afraid is because leadership led them down this path, it exploited the fear, the concern, and it used an Arab bogeyman to do it.
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Our silence in the face of the horrific abuses that are taking place on a daily basis in fact are causing people throughout the Middle East to ask serious questions about America and about its commitment to its values.
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If we expect credit, or expect that this somehow is responsive to the anger of those who have become alienated from the United States, it's not.
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I find some of the rhetoric being used against this deal shameful and irresponsible. There is bigotry coming out here.
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a coherent policy that can punish the regime while offering sustenance and hope to the people of Iraq.
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They have a surplus of capital, and they're doing quite well.
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They recognized the Taliban, as did Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, because the United States wanted them to.