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Here are the Blogs in the Dexter Van Zile category. Thursday, 12 July 2012
Dexter Van Zile
Christian media Analyst, CAMERA
Republished from The Algemeiner in the Friday July 13th edition
By a two-vote margin (333-331), the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) decided not to sell the church’s stock in three companies that make equipment used by the ...Read More...
Posted on 07/12/2012 7:39 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Monday, 9 July 2012
By a two-vote margin (333-331), the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) denied anti-Israel activists a trophy – the passage of an overture that calls upon the denomination to sell its stock in companies that manufacture products used by the Israeli military.
The passage of a divestment ...Read More...
Posted on 07/09/2012 3:21 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Palestinian Christian activists and their allies have a difficult time describing the security barrier accurately. They describe the barrier as completely surrounding Bethlehem when in fact it does not.
Bishara Awad, president of the Bethlehem Bible College has uttered this falsehood, as has his son, ...Read More...
Posted on 06/27/2012 3:41 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The tragic death of Elias Awad on May 24, 1948 was a central event in the life of the Awads, a prominent family of Palestinian Christians from the West Bank who advocate for the Palestinian cause.
Elias' death, which took place during Israel's War of Independence, was a huge tragedy for his ...Read More...
Posted on 06/19/2012 7:14 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Friday, 15 June 2012
Rev. Alex Awad, a prominent supporter of divestment in the United Methodist Church has offered to audiences a distorted view of the Arab-Israeli conflict to his audiences in both the West Bank and the United States.
In a video titled “A Palestinian Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” ...Read More...
Posted on 06/15/2012 1:55 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Rev. Alex Awad has agreed to remove a quote falsely attributed to Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion from a DVD of his presentation “A Palestinian Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict.”
This DVD, which was available for sale for $10 at the gift shop of the Bethlehem ...Read More...
Posted on 06/14/2012 11:55 AM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Call me crazy, but maybe the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches should invite Lady Gaga to appear at the organization’s upcoming Assembly scheduled to take place in Korea in 2013.
Yes, I’ll admit it. Gaga’s presence at the Assembly might be a bit disconcerting to the ...Read More...
Posted on 06/06/2012 12:57 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Exaggerated self-criticism would be a harmless luxury of civilization if there were no enemy at the gate condemning democracy’s very existence. But it becomes dangerous when it portrays its mortal enemy as always being in the right. Extravagant criticism is a good propaganda device in internal ...Read More...
Posted on 05/22/2012 12:42 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Thursday, 17 May 2012
One of the charges CAMERA levels at mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. is that they exhibit a monomaniacal focus on Israel while ignoring the misdeeds and human rights abuses of its adversaries in the Middle East. This assessment is typically based on the resolutions submitted to the national ...Read More...
Posted on 05/17/2012 5:08 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Thursday, 10 May 2012
The United Church of Canada got into trouble in 2009 when a small number of anti-Israel activists attempted to hijack the denomination (which boasts half a million members) by convincing its General Council to pass four anti-Israel resolutions, two of which called on the church to boycott products made ...Read More...
Posted on 05/10/2012 2:45 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
By Dexter Van Zile
For the past few decades, Palestinian Christians have been the primary source of information about the Arab-Israeli conflict and Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East. Working on behalf of this community, peace activists in mainline Protestant churches, work to convince their ...Read More...
Posted on 05/09/2012 2:01 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Thursday, 3 May 2012
For the past several days, the United Methodist Church has been meeting in Tampa, Florida for its General Convention that is held every four years. At this convention, the delegates approved a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli products made in the West Bank.
The assembly also rejected a resolution ...Read More...
Posted on 05/03/2012 3:17 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Palestinian Christians, like other religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East, are the target of mistreatment, harassment and in some instances, violent oppression at the hands of their Muslim neighbors.
Nevertheless, much of the media coverage about Palestinian Christians downplays Muslim ...Read More...
Posted on 04/25/2012 3:40 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Okay, let me get this straight. Christians are being attacked and murdered in Iraq, Egypt and Nigeria and a whole bunch of other places. And Bob Simon's big reveal on 60 Minutes is that the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren called his boss? Are you kidding me?
...Read More...
Posted on 04/24/2012 11:05 AM by Dexter Van Zile
Thursday, 12 April 2012
In early March, more than 600 Evangelical Protestants gathered at Jacir Palace, a five star hotel in Bethlehem. They attended a conference titled “Christ at the Checkpoint,” organized by Bethlehem Bible College, a prominent evangelical seminary located in the West Bank with supporters in ...Read More...
Posted on 04/12/2012 8:20 AM by Dexter Van Zile
Friday, 30 March 2012
Amira Hass should to a better job of vetting the facts handed to her by Palestinian Christian leaders, because sometimes, these folks simply do not provide factual information to their supporters.
In her recent response to an op-ed by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren about the status of Christians in ...Read More...
Posted on 03/30/2012 1:47 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Monday, 26 March 2012
One of the great scandals of the past few decades is the manner in which would-be Christian peacemakers have failed to confront the problem of Muslim anti-Semitism and the role it plays in promoting ongoing violence against Israel and Jews throughout the world.
These so-called peacemakers are simply ...Read More...
Posted on 03/26/2012 6:24 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Friday, 9 March 2012
For the past five days, a group of approximately 600 Evangelical Protestants have attended a conference in Bethlehem titled “Christ at the Checkpoint.”
This conference, organized by the Bethlehem Bible College, a well-known evangelical institution located on the West Bank, has generated ...Read More...
Posted on 03/09/2012 12:55 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Friday, 10 February 2012
About a year ago, I wrote a laudatory and hopeful article about the actions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) that took place in Minneapolis in July 2010.
It was a long piece, but a quick summary is that a miracle took place in Minneapolis. Prominent Presbyterians – ...Read More...
Posted on 02/10/2012 4:38 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Friday, 10 February 2012
Images like this were posted on a Facebook page run by the IPMN-PCUSA.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) has called on the Presbyterian Church (USA) to rein in the anti-Zionist and in some instances, anti-Jewish rhetoric proffered by its education and peacemaking organization, ...Read More...
Posted on 02/10/2012 1:59 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Images like this were posted on a Facebook page run by Presbyterian peacemakers.
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) has called on the Presbyterian Church (USA) to rein in the anti-Zionist and in some instances, anti-Jewish rhetoric proffered by its education and peacemaking organization, ...Read More...
Posted on 02/08/2012 4:04 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
It is time for another Durban Conference.
No, I’m not asking for a repeat of the U.N.-sponsored festival of Jew-hatred that took place in South Africa in 2001.
The last thing we need is to have Israel demonized by Islamists and their allies in the West.
We do not need another conference where ...Read More...
Posted on 01/18/2012 9:04 AM by Dexter Van Zile
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Rev. Nick Howard writes at Harry's Place:
The word ‘racist’ probably brings to mind a skinhead with a snarling face. But this image can blind us to the presence of well-spoken racists in very respectable jobs, who can capitalise on their social status to inflict more serious long-term ...Read More...
Posted on 12/28/2011 9:31 AM by Dexter Van Zile
Thursday, 8 December 2011
For background, please see the following articles:
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=381&PID=0&IID=9018
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2127
Today's WCC Press release:
Churches ...Read More...
Posted on 12/08/2011 12:58 PM by Dexter Van Zile
Friday, 2 December 2011
While the World Council of Churches and mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. remain relatively silent about the ongoing violence against Christians in the Middle East, Christian Solidarity International (CSI) rings the bell loudly by issuing a genocide warning.
The Christian Post reports:
Dr. ...Read More...
Posted on 12/02/2011 3:54 PM by Dexter Van Zile
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