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Dexter Van Zile

Dexter Van Zile, the Violin Family Research Fellow at the Middle East Forum, is managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism.

He could have acknowledged the danger of rhetoric glorifying violence. He could have set an example of good governance for other Muslims to follow. Instead, he doubled down.
A statement issued by 60 Islamist groups waging war against American Jews falsely accuses the ADL and its CEO of waging war against American Muslims.
While there are some American Muslims who acknowledge that Israel isn’t going away, they are not willing to say so publicly. This silence, coupled with extremist anti-Israel activism, is contributing to a decline in Jewish safety in the U.S.
Is David M. Crump’s “Like Birds in a Cage: Christian Zionism’s Collusion in Israel’s Oppression of the Palestinian People” a harbinger of what’s to come in the evangelical community?
As bad and offensive as his MLK Day sermon was, Rev. J. Herbert Nelson II has used far worse anti-Israel rhetoric.
Patriarch al-Rahi has condemned Hezbollah for risking war with the Jewish state without the permission of the Lebanese government—but don’t expect other Christian groups to start telling the truth about Hezbollah anytime soon.
It’s time to convene a “beit din” to render a judgement on the UCC’s decades-long war against the Jews and their state.
The goal is to force Jews to look over their shoulder in mainstream American society.
“In this age of social media, people read or listen to all kinds of opinions expressed about Judaism and the Jewish people on Internet blogs, websites. Some are filled with false and hateful rhetoric, opposed to the very spirit of Christianity,” said Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades.