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Dexter Van Zile
Managing Editor, Focus on Western Islamism
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Profile
Dexter Van Zile is managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism, a news outlet MEF set up in 2022, and the Forum's Violin Family Research Fellow. He spent 16 years at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis, countering misinformation broadcast into Christian churches and refuting antisemitic propaganda. He has written academic studies and book chapters on Christian anti-Zionism.
Summarized from the MEF bio of Dexter Van Zile, read October 4, 2026.
Writes on: Islamism in the West; religion, theology and minorities; antisemitism; media and information warfare; the United States; Israel.
Topics are this site's tags, assigned from the subjects of Dexter Van Zile's bylined MEF pieces, the MEF bio and the topics MEF lists on its Speakers Bureau page.
MEF Work (132)
Bylined pieces published by the Middle East Forum, newest first, 2022 to 2026. Titles are quoted as MEF published them and link to the original on meforum.org.
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2026 (30)
- Boston Public Schools Employs Farrakhan Supporter Who Lost Job with District Attorney
- Signs of Life in a Massachusetts Suburb
- Journalist Sues Dearborn and Its Mayor for Anti-Christian, Anti-Jewish Discrimination
- Islamic Relief Worldwide Divorces American Affiliate with Jules Gomes
- Wyoming Business Laws Protect Gaza-Based Charity from Scrutiny
- Massachusetts Suburb Hires Anti-Zionist With Alleged Family Ties to Hamas Fighter to Teach Social Studies
- Five Things Jews (and Christians) Need to Know About October 7 and Its Aftermath
- Dearborn’s Mayor Helps Terrorize Diaspora Jews with Genocide Lie
- Massachusetts Lawmakers Push Special Privileges for Muslims
- Medieval Minbar: Dearborn Heights Sermons Revive Medieval Antisemitism
- Dearborn Heights Mosque Demonizes Israel and Its Supporters for Ashura
- Islamic Relief Franchise Takes Another Hit, This Time in Germany
- From Hitler to Hamas: Dearborn’s Journalistic Legacy Continues
- True to Form, Boston Mosque Hosts Islamist Troublemaker
- Islamic Relief Worldwide Seeks Private Arbitration in Lawsuit with American Affiliate
- Special Report: Omar Suleiman, Islamist Reincarnation of Father Coughlin
- The Spirit of Henry Ford Descends on Dearborn Once Again
- Hijabi Brigade Silences Critics of Jihadist Violence
- Gaslighting in New York: Nerdeen Kiswani and Allies Obscure the Sources of Violence
- Time to List Islamist Organizations on Applications for U.S. Citizenship
- Fitna Among Islamists: Muslim Charity in U.S. Sues Former Affiliate in U.K.
- The Warning Dearborn’s Mayor Just Didn’t Want to Hear
- Dearborn Leaders Share Responsibility for Attack on Nearby Synagogue
- Islamists in U.K. Mourn Death of Iranian Supreme Leader with Potkin Azarmehr
- The Rape Gang Crisis: Modern-Day Slavery on British Soil
- Updated: Meet Saeed Shehabi, Adversary of Bahrain, Friend to Iran
- Baptist Islamophobiacs Submit to Islamism in the Name of Peace
- Counter-Islamists Applaud Trump Designation of Muslim Brotherhood Chapters in Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt
- Islamophobiacs Help Incite Leftist Protestors in Minnesota
- Mr. President, Don’t Renominate Amer Ghalib
2025 (21)
- Dearborn Mayor's Attack on Christian Invites Far-Right Chaos
- Texas Draws a Line Against the Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Interview with Dearborn Imam Who Loves Trump, And Lost His Moment
- Mister Ghalib Goes to Washington to Rebrand Himself; Senators Don’t Buy It
- Texas Attorney General Accuses Muslim Residential Project of ‘Fraudulent’ Conduct
- ArabCon: The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Hostile, Hypocritical Annual Convention
- Muslim Council of Britain Offers Crocodile Tears over Stabbing at Manchester Synagogue
- Breaking: Feds Sue Leftist Foot Soldiers for Hamas in New Jersey
- The New Jim Crow in Dearborn
- CAIR Issues Restrained Statement on Kirk Assassination After Demonizing Israel
- Islamists Respond to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
- The West Must Choose the Vision of the United Arab Emirates, Not Iran, for the Middle East
- New Jersey Mosques Celebrate Legal Victory of Pro-Intifada Imam
- CAIR Supports Iran Over Peace in Middle East with Larry Estavan
- Dear Imam Elahi: Stop Spreading Hate, Tell Iran to Surrender, and Warn Sleeper Cells to Stand Down
- NIAC Has Lost Its Mojo
- Pro-Iran Islamists Running Summer Camp Outside of London with Potkin Azarmehr
- Steve Rosen: An American Asset with Anna Stanley
- Staten Island Mosque Enlists Felon, Antisemite, and Pro-Jihadist to Teach Children Qur’an
- U.S. Islamists Use Ceasefire to Blame Biden, Praise Trump, Demonize Israel
- Hating the U.S. and Israel Comes with Costs; Ask Caleb Gannon
2024 (28)
- Jewish Nonprofit in Boston Rebukes Islamist Agitators It Once Funded
- Islamists Against the Union Jack: Reflections on Visiting 12 Islamic Institutions in 14 Days
- Reasserting American Power in the Middle East: A Blueprint for the Trump Administration with Gregg Roman, Michael Rubin, Jonathan Spyer, Jim Hanson, Winfield Myers, Benjamin Baird, Sam Westrop, Eric Navarro, Alex Selsky
- Top American Imam Charged with Child Pornography; Fired from Islamist Seminary in Texas
- Meet the Islamist from Texas Preaching Online Hate Against Hindus and the West with Sarojini Siva
- A Bridge Too Far: Zakim Foundation Is Funding Violent Pro-Palestinian Radicals
- Hollywood Islamists Reveal Extremist Agenda on October 7
- Leftist Radicals Have Outdone Islamists in Legitimizing October 7
- Muslim Nonprofit Legitimizes Violence and Suicide at ‘Vigil’ in Boston; Seeks to Suppress Reporting
- Primary Source, a Nonprofit Organization, Hides Its Qatar Connection
- Meet Kian Kianfar, the Pro-Iranian ‘Cement Worker’ Agitating for Mullahs in Massachusetts
- Contempt for Jew-Haters Is a Moral Imperative We Must Preserve
- We Defeated Pro-Hamas Protestors by Proving They Support Rape and Terror
- Media Covers for VP Nominee Tim Walz Who Danced with Hitler-Promoting Islamist
- Leftists Bring Chaos to Chicago, Islamists to Bring (or Withhold) Their Votes
- Canadian Islamist NGO Gets Taste of Its Own Medicine. Not Happy
- Student Radicals from DSA Prepare for Another Round of Pro-Hamas Activism
- Iranian Regime Hosts Voting on U.S. Soil
- Students for Justice in Palestine Grooming American Students for Intifada: A First Person Account
- Islamist Antisemitism Invades Doctors' Offices
- Muslim-American Organizations Slander the ADL
- U.S. Taxpayers Funding Anti-American Mosque in Michigan with Amine Ayoub
- Interview: U.K. Imam Who Took on Interfaith Industry, And Won
- Qatari Investment in Massachusetts Nonprofit, Primary Source, Paying Off Years Later
- Hamas Supremacism in Boston
- Boston's First Muslim City Councilor Cavorts with Extremists at Islamist Gala
- Islamist Organization Accused of Financing Terrorism Ordered to Reveal Donors
- American Muslims Must Repudiate Pro-Hamas Charities
2023 (28)
- CAIR Director Nihad Awad, And Others Like Him, Must Go
- Chinese Communists Enlist Islamists in War Against the West
- Not Another Dime to Pro-Hamas Charities in U.S.
- Tania Fernandes Anderson Owes Boston an Apology
- White House Hosts Hamas Fans
- U.S. Islamist Organizations Cheer on Hamas Massacre
- American Islamists Abandon China’s Uighurs, Attack France and Israel
- Jihad in the Capital? D.C.-Area Mosque Targeted for Islamist Takeover, Members Allege
- Blaming Pro-Israel Christians for Palestinian Problems
- Bangladeshi Islamists Import Hatred of ‘Enemies of Islam’ into United States
- Islamists in France and UK Call for Murder of FWI Contributor
- Islamists Taking New Approach to Qur'an Burnings
- Biden Appoints Problematic Islamist With Muslim Brotherhood Ties To Religious Freedom Commission
- U.S. Taxpayers Donated $391K to Terrorist-Defending Imam's Two Organizations
- Canada's 'Islamophobia' Witch Hunt Will Soon Come to an End
- Islamist Charity Uses Lawfare to Silence Critics in Canada
- A Farrakhan Disciple Works for the Boston DA
- Tarek Fatah a Beacon of Courage for Counter-Islamists Everywhere
- Hamline U. Prez Lays Down Her 'Islamophobia' Badge
- Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Join Mosque and State
- CAIR Condemns Antisemitism? The Backstory
- CAIR Accused of Hiding Behind Anonymous Website to Attack Critics
- Congressman Challenges USAID on Funding Jihadist-Tied Charity; MEF Uncovered Ties
- CAIR vs. CAIR at Hamline Univ.; Inciting a Firing
- Ismail Royer’s Journey from Jihadist Foreign Legion to Defender of American Civilization
- Ismail Royer's Journey from Jihadist to Defender of American Civilization
- Islamists Enforce Blasphemy Laws at Hamline College, Suffer Blowback
- The "Islamophobia" Regime
2022 (25)
- Islamists Manhandle Journalist for Questioning San Diego Imam About 'Hate Crime'
- An Inside Look at the Decline of Islamism with Former Salafist Umar Lee; Part II: The Akh-Right and Antisemitism
- An Inside Look at the Decline of Islamism with Former Salafist Umar Lee; Part I: Conversion and Disillusionment
- Medical Professionals Fund CAIR's Gathering of Extremists in San Francisco
- Counter-Islamists Meet in a Palace, Make Ambitious Plans
- Waiting on CAIR's Explanation of San Diego 'Hate Crime Story'
- Michigan Town Invites Islamist Antisemite to 'Diversity Dinner'
- U.S. Muslims More 'Islamophobic' than General Public
- His Bigotry Exposed, Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib Calls Critics ‘Parasites’
- Texas Mosque Enlists Children into Cult of Iranian Martyrdom
- EU Funds Islamist Groups Defunded by Former Arab Sponsors
- Undercover Reporting Necessary to Counter Threats to Democracy, Islamism Included
- American Journalists Avert their Eyes from Islamism
- A Texan Pastor’s Shameful Love Affair with Islamism
- Minnesota Politicians Join with Sex Slavery Advocate
- How Social Media Crucially Helps and Hinders ex-Muslims
- Canadian Islamists Claim ‘Islamophobia’ to Avoid Legal Scrutiny
- Prominent American Imam Promotes Jihad
- Working for Peace in a Multifaith America
- Sarsour Sidelined Again
- Islamist Americans Rub Shoulders With Western Elites in Doha
- AMP Claims Outrage Over Killing of Jews is Missing ‘Context’
- Erdoğan Honors Extremist Imam in U.S. With ‘Benevolence’ Award
- Former CAIR Official Cheers for America's Enemies
- Three U.S. Reps call on Garland to Investigate Pakistani Ambassador
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