In any discussion of the impact of October 7, 2023, two facts must be acknowledged. Israeli-Palestinian history didn’t begin ...

While proponents assert that the spread of democracy is essential to securing peace, two allied democracies—the United States ...

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the undersigned organizations are writing to request an extension regarding the U.S. Census Bureau’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) ...

More often than not, those in the media take a simplistic view of political polls. Especially in a presidential election year, attention tends to be singularly focused on who’s up and who’s down. In ...

There is compelling evidence that voter disaffection with the Biden administration’s failure to confront Israel’s war on Gaza played a role in the Harris presidential campaign’s devastating loss in ...

The Arab American Institute organizes the 3.7 million Arab Americans across the country to ensure an informed, organized, and effective constituency is represented in all aspects of civic life.

Many people are unaware of the size, diversity, and interests of the Arab American community. We estimate there are 3.7 million Arab Americans. Arab Americans constitute an ethnicity made up of ...

Today, the FBI released its annual hate crime statistics for 2022 based on data reported from the nation’s law enforcement agencies. With 11,634 hate crime incidents, 2022 is the highest number of ...

*The FBI defines violent offenses as the sum of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery. AAI considers simple assault as a violent offense in our calculations.

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 5, 2025 – Today, the FBI released the 2024 annual hate crime statistics based on data reported from law enforcement agencies across the nation. While chronically flawed in its ...

AAI President Jim Zogby first met Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. in the late 1970’s when the civil rights leader, then in his late 30s, was planning a trip to the Palestinian Occupied Territory. In 1979, ...

Last week, New York Democratic Representative Jamaal Bowman was defeated in his bid for a third term in Congress. In describing the outcome, newspaper headlines and media analysts only scratched the ...