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Uzra Zeya nominated for undersecretary of civilian security, democracy, and human rights President Joe Biden's nominee for a top State Department position played a key role in assembling a book on the nefarious influence of the "Israel lobby" while working for an organization that promoted claims about Jewish media control and dual loyalty to Israel. As a staffer at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Uzra Zeya compiled research for a book that argues that "the Israel lobby has subverted the American political process to take control of U.S. Middle East policy" by establishing a secret network of "dirty...

Sally Lilienthal, a staunch nuclear weapons opponent who founded the influential Ploughshares Fund to help shape the Cold War disarmament agenda, has died. She was 87. Lilienthal, who was also known for her activism and ubiquitous presence in San Francisco high society, died at a hospital Tuesday of a bone infection that led to pneumonia, said Naila Bolus, executive director of the fund. Lilienthal raised $100,000 in 1981 to give the Ploughshares Fund its start. Since then, the organization has made more than $40 million in grants to promote peace through arms control. "She founded it with very little, but...