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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.
There hasn’t been much of a public outcry in this northern city in New York state, home to more than 20,000 Jews. It’s hard to know how to interpret the lack of response.
So much for safeguards to ensure that faculty hold themselves to “the highest standards,” and that students learn in an environment open to “multiple points of view.”
Not only have administrators failed to hold communications professor Sut Jhally accountable for acts of deception in his research, they have enabled him to protect his work at the school from public review.
If you look through the resolutions passed by the denomination’s General Synod since the late 1960s, the denomination has said next to nothing about anti-Jewish and anti-Israel incitement broadcast by Arab and Muslim leaders over the past few decades.
The audience of approximately 150 Christians—many of them affiliated with the United Methodist Church—nodded along as Mark Braverman flirted with them by saying that, while he remains a Jew, he regularly preaches from the New Testament in churches on Sunday mornings.
Throughout history, stereotypes of Jews as money-hungry and corrupt have stoked anti-Jewish political movements—and often, with deadly consequences.
The Presbyterian Church USA continues a practice of Jew-baiting that the denomination’s peace activists and leaders have been perfecting for more than a decade.