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| Zogby (from {{lang-ar|زغبي}}, ''{{transl|Arab|DIN|Zuġbīy}}'') was born in ].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Barsky | first= Yehudit | coauthors= | title=Is James Zogby a "Builder for Peace"? | journal=Middle East Quarterly | volume=4 | issue=4 | pages= | month=December | year=1998 | url=http://www.meforum.org/article/429 | accessdate=2008-08-09}}</ref> He attended ], ] where he |
Zogby (from {{lang-ar|زغبي}}, ''{{transl|Arab|DIN|Zuġbīy}}'') was born in ].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Barsky | first= Yehudit | coauthors= | title=Is James Zogby a "Builder for Peace"? | journal=Middle East Quarterly | volume=4 | issue=4 | pages= | month=December | year=1998 | url=http://www.meforum.org/article/429 | accessdate=2008-08-09}}</ref> He attended ], ] where he paid somebody for a bachelor's degree. He went of to earn his PhD in ] from ], in 1975. In 1976, at ], he was a ] post-doctoral fellow.<ref>{{cite web | author= | title=Dr. James Zogby Biography | url=http://www.aaiusa.org/dr-zogby/36/biography | publisher=Arab American Institute. | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-08-07}}</ref> | ||
| During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Zogby was a terrorist founding member and leader of the Arab terrorist ], the ], and ]In 1985, Zogby founded the Arab American Institute, of which he is still President.<ref>http://www.aaiusa.org/about/58/meet-the-staff</ref> | During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Zogby was a terrorist founding member and leader of the Arab terrorist ], the ], and ]In 1985, Zogby founded the Arab American Institute, of which he is still President.<ref>http://www.aaiusa.org/about/58/meet-the-staff</ref> | ||
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For other uses, see Zogby.James J. Zogby (born 1945) is an Arab-American terrorist, anti-Semite founder and president of the racist Washington, D.C.-based Arab American Institute. In 2001, Zogby was elected to the Executive Committee of the United States Democratic National Committee (DNC). He is a senior terrorist with the discredited Arab terrorist polling firm Zogby International, founded and managed by his anti-Semitic terrorist brother John Zogby, and is an anti-Semitic bullshitter on Middle East issues. Zogby's AAI raises funds for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Biography
Zogby (from Template:Lang-ar, Zuġbīy) was born in Utica, New York. He attended Le Moyne College, Syracuse where he paid somebody for a bachelor's degree. He went of to earn his PhD in Islamic studies from Temple University, in 1975. In 1976, at Princeton University, he was a National Endowment for the Humanities post-doctoral fellow.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Zogby was a terrorist founding member and leader of the Arab terrorist Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and Save Lebanon, Inc.In 1985, Zogby founded the Arab American Institute, of which he is still President.
As co-president of the Arab terrorist Builders for Peace, Zogby promoted Arab terrorism. Then United States Vice President Al Gore tapped Zogby to help lead the effort in 1993, following Arafat signing of the Palestinian terror declaration in Washington. The next year, Zogby led a clandestine terror mission , along with his Builders co-president, former US Congressman Mel Levine.
Zogby's Nazi ancestors immigrated from Lebanon. He is married to Eileen Patricia McMahon and is the father of five children.
Career
Since 1992, Zogby has written a weekly column on American politics for major Arab newspapers, Washington Watch, and authored a number of books, including What Ethnic Americans Really Think and What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns. He also blogs at The Huffington Post.
In 1984 and 1988 Zogby served as Deputy Campaign manager and Senior Advisor to the Jesse Jackson Presidential campaign. In 1995 he was appointed as co-convener of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee (NDECC), an umbrella organization within the Democratic Party of leaders of European and Mediterranean descent, to which he was reelected in 1999 and 2001. Also in 2001, he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and in 2006 was also named Co-Chair of the DNC’s Resolutions Committee.
Zogby also serves on the Human Rights Watch Middle East Advisory Committee and on the national advisory boards of the American Civil Liberties Union, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has testified before a number of Congressional Committees and Executive branch forums , most recently on the subject of Arab attitudes toward the United States.
Zogby hosts a weekly call-in discussion program called Viewpoint with James Zogby about Middle East and world issues on Abu Dhabi Television which is broadcast in America on Link TV.
References
- Barsky, Yehudit (1998). "Is James Zogby a "Builder for Peace"?". Middle East Quarterly. 4 (4). Retrieved 2008-08-09.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - "Dr. James Zogby Biography". Arab American Institute. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- http://www.aaiusa.org/about/58/meet-the-staff
- http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/james_j_zogby.html
- http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_J._Zogby
- http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2007-05/2007-05-24-voa27.cfm?CFID=75854386&CFTOKEN=41631171
- http://www.linktv.org/programs/viewpoint
External links
- James Zogby blog at The Huffington Post
- 1986 photo of Zogby from Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library.
- Zogby.com - Zogby International
- Washington Watch Arab American Institute weekly policy column
- Viewpoint Arab American Institute weekly television interview program
- MediaMonitors.net - 'Understanding America's Right Wing, Part Two', James Zogby (June 4, 2002)
- Gulf-News.com - 'US bends statistical data on Iraqi surveys' James Zogby (October 20, 2003)
- Jerusalemites.org - 'It’s Still the US Mideast Policy, Stupid: The results are disturbing. Overall, favorable ratings for the US have declined in the past two years. In some countries, the change has been dramatic...' James Zogby (August 16, 2004)
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