CAMERA writer

Dexter Van Zile

Dexter Van Zile is a researcher at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).

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Dexter Van ZileMarch 6, 2022
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?
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Dexter Van ZileJanuary 30, 2022
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.
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Dexter Van ZileAugust 15, 2021
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.
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Dexter Van ZileAugust 10, 2021
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.
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Dexter Van ZileAugust 5, 2020
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.
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Dexter Van ZileFebruary 21, 2020
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.
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Dexter Van ZileNovember 18, 2019
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.
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Dexter Van ZileOctober 17, 2019
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.”
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Dexter Van ZileSeptember 5, 2019
UMASS protects propagandist from scrutiny
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.
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Dexter Van ZileMarch 12, 2019
The UCC is not a ‘just peace’ church
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.
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Dexter Van ZileOctober 17, 2018
Weaponizing Jewish alienation
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.
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Dexter Van ZileOctober 16, 2018
‘They’re all Jews!’
Throughout history, stereotypes of Jews as money-hungry and corrupt have stoked anti-Jewish political movements—and often, with deadly consequences.
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Dexter Van ZileMarch 9, 2018
A dying church takes time to give Israel a kick
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.
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Dexter Van ZileOctober 31, 2017
Anti-propaganda film targeting Israel is itself propaganda
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Dexter Van ZileMay 22, 2017
Christian organizations gambling with Jewish safety in secret
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