Far-left activists have proven to be some of the most effective advocates for an Islamist world view in Western democracies. They portray the West, its institutions, its leaders, and its very legacy as worthy of contempt and overthrow creating a vacuum of legitimacy into which Islamist leaders have proven increasingly adept at occupying. What’s going on? What can be done to counter this phenomenon? Focus on Western Islamism’s managing editor Dexter Van Zile will address these and other topics.
Dexter Van Zile
Managing Editor, Focus on Western Islamism
Dexter Van Zile, the Middle East Forum’s Violin Family Research Fellow, serves as managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism. 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.
