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Dexter Van Zile

Dexter Van Zile is Managing Editor at the Middle East Forum.

Kanye West. Credit: Jason Persse via Wikimedia Commons.

Ex-Islamist explains the appeal of antisemitism among US 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.

Dexter Van Zile

November 29, 2022

David M. Crump. Source: Screenshot.

Crump text indicates anti-Zionist torch being passed from mainliners to evangelicals

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?

Dexter Van Zile

March 6, 2022

Rev. J. Herbert Nelson II. Credit: Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Presbyterian leader targets US Jews

As bad and offensive as his MLK Day sermon was, Rev. J. Herbert Nelson II has used far worse anti-Israel rhetoric.

Dexter Van Zile

January 30, 2022

Flags of Hezbollah fly during a funeral salute. Credit: Crop Media/Shutterstock.

Lebanese patriarch’s change of heart is a real miracle

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.

Dexter Van Zile

August 15, 2021

Poster for the United Church of Christ's 2021 General Synod. Credit: United Church of Christ.

Time to put the United Church of Christ on trial for anti-Semitism

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.

Dexter Van Zile

August 10, 2021

Protesters in Boston advocate for the anti-Israel BDS movement on July 1, 2020. Courtesy: CAMERA.

Contagion of scapegoating spreads from higher education into the streets

The goal is to force Jews to look over their shoulder in mainstream American society.

Dexter Van Zile

August 5, 2020

St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City, Rome, on Aug. 17, 2016. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Catholic bishop declares ‘Jews are not our enemies’

“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.

Dexter Van Zile

February 21, 2020

A view of the skyline of Rochester, N.Y. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Rochester Jews confronted with anti-Israel film festival

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.

Dexter Van Zile

November 18, 2019

The campus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Credit: UMass Amherst.

The scandal continues at UMASS Amherst

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.”

Dexter Van Zile

October 17, 2019