Dexter Van Zile

Managing Editor, Focus on Western Islamism

Dexter Van Zile, Middle East Forum’s Violin Family Research Fellow, is managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism, a news outlet established by MEF in 2022. Prior to his current position, Van Zile worked at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis for 16 years, where he played a major role in countering misinformation broadcast into Christian churches by Palestinian Christians and refuting antisemitic propaganda broadcast by white nationalists and their allies in the U.S. His articles have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, the Boston Globe, Jewish Political Studies Review, the Algemeiner and the Jewish News Syndicate. He has authored numerous academic studies and book chapters about Christian anti-Zionism.

Articles by this Author
Supporter Calls on IRUSA to Register as ‘Church’ to Avoid Government Scrutiny
Founder of Yaqeen Institute Follows in Footsteps of Radio Priest from 1930s
Dearborn and the Surrounding Communities Act as a Base of Support for the Decades-Long Propaganda War Against the Jewish Diaspora in America
Veiled Women Shield Islamist Politics From Scrutiny, Recast Critics as Bigots and Misogynists
At an Anti-Israel, Pro-Islamist Press Conference, People Demanded Rights for Themselves That They Deny to Jews
Islamist Organizations Have Destroyed Lives Just Like Communists and Nazis
Islamic Relief USA’s Lawsuit Prompted in Part by Middle East Forum Research
He Could Have Acknowledged the Danger of Rhetoric Glorifying Violence and Set an Example of Good Governance for Others. Instead, He Doubled Down
City’s Elites Channeling Henry Ford’s Hatred of Jews
Charity Commission Seeking Greater Oversight Authority
With the Rape Gang Crisis, the Social Death of Vulnerable Girls Was Tolerated to Manage Tensions in a Multicultural Democracy
Activist Used Pseudonym to Promote Iranian Events in U.K.
Scholars Confess the Sins of their Fellow Christians to Islamist Activists
Why Can’t CAIR and MPAC Condemn Widespread Fraud in Minnesota?
And While We’re at it, Think Twice About Offering Him Another Post
Hammoud Invokes Unity After Far-Right Agitators Make Him Look Like Victim
Governor Abbott Designates Islamist Non-Profit and Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Organizations
Husham Al-Husainy Was Headed to D.C. Until His Past Caught up with Him
Nominee for Ambassador’s Post in Kuwait Backtracks on Abraham Accords, Won’t Acknowledge Israel’s Legitimacy, Loathe to Admit Error on Saddam Hussein