Milton Viorst (February 18, 1930 – December 9, 2022) was an American journalist who wrote and reported on the Middle East, writing in a series of publications, most notably The New Yorker.

Milton Viorst won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship[4] in 1979 to research and write about Zionist and Islamic ideas and the Mideast crisis.

On October 5, 1988, Viorst wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post erroneously dispersing doubt over whether Saddam Hussein's regime had used chemical weapons in a genocide of Iraq's Kurdish population.

[5] Despite confirmation from Secretary of State George Shultz, a month earlier,[6] that poison gas had been employed to kill thousands of civilians, including children, Viorst maintained that it "may never have taken place" and argued for Congress not to pass the Prevention of Genocide Act, which later failed.

In April 2016, Viorst published Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal with St. Martin's Press.