28 Quotes by James Zogby

We continue to oppose the use of military force and think that there's a very significant risk of grave unrest in the Arab world.

This really is no more than Arab-phobia. For these politicians, the national interest of the United States is synonymous with their next election. They're not thinking this is a real threat. It's an election year, it's an Arab country, and there's a post-9/11 insecurity they can exploit. It's a lethal brew, and they're stirring it for all it's worth.

When you have members of Congress literally tripping over themselves to run to a microphone and they're saying, 'The Arabs are coming, the Arabs are coming,' preying off that fear because it's an Arab country, that constitutes bigotry.

What started this and drives this is bigotry.

We see Arabs as an objectified problem. We see the culture as less than ours, we see them as more violent than we are.

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.

common consensus of Arab-Americans and Jewish-Americans for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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.

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.