A Western Victory Project: Defeating Islamism at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Date: 02/24/2025
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Private Event? Yes
Kosher Options? Yes
Offers Hotel Code? No
Cost Is Donation? No
Monday, February 24, 2025
12:00PM - 1:30PM
This lunch is complimentary for current MEF donors of $250 or more ($500 per couple). For all other guests, we request a $250 contribution.
For too long, the West has focused on merely countering Islamism—knocking its missiles out of the sky—without dismantling the infrastructure that allows it to thrive. It is time for a Western Victory Project—a strategy to defeat Islamism, just as the Israel Victory Project seeks to end the physical threats to Israel.
Dexter Van Zile, MEF’s managing editor of Focus on Western Islamism, will lay out a concrete roadmap for victory over Islamism in the West, with an emphasis on the United States. Drawing from historical examples of how extremist movements were stripped of their legitimacy in the U.S., he will outline the necessary steps to deprive Islamists of institutional support, embarrass young Muslims into rejecting supremacism, and discredit Islamism as a political movement.
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.
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