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In 2004 Horowitz launched [[Discover the Networks]], a conservative watchdog project that monitors funding for, and various ties among, leftists and progressive causes. In his 2004 book, ''Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left'', Horowitz contends that leftists support, intentionally or not, for [[Islamist terrorism]], and thus require ongoing scrutiny.


In two books, Horowitz accused Dana L. Cloud, associate professor of communication studies at the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]], as an “anti-American radical” who “routinely repeats the propaganda of the Saddam regime” and, along with all of the 99 other professors in his book, [[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]], Horowitz accuses her of the “explicit introduction of political agendas into the classroom.” (pp. 93, 377)

Cloud replied in ''Inside Higher Education'' that her experience demonstrates that Horowitz does real damage to professors' lives -- and that he needs to be viewed that way, not just as a political opponent. 
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Horowitz's attacks have been significant. People who read the book or his Web site regularly send letters to university officials asking for her to be fired. Personally, she has received -- mostly via e-mail -- "physical threats, threats of removing my daughter from my custody, threats of sexual assaults, horrible disgusting gendered things," she said. That Horowitz doesn't send these isn't the point, she said. "He builds a climate and culture that emboldens people," and as a result, shouldn't be seen as a defender of academic freedom, but as its enemy.
<ref name="IHE">[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/19/horowitz "Communicating About David Horowitz" in ''[[Insider Higher Ed]]'' February 19, 2008]</ref> </blockquote>

After discussion, the [[National Communication Association]] chose not to grant Horowitz a spot as a panelist at its national conference in 2008 even after he agreed to forego the $7,000 speaking fee he had requested.

Horowitz replied, "The fact that no academic group has had the balls to invite me says a lot about the ability of academic associations to discuss important issues if a political minority wants to censor them."<ref name="IHE">[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/19/horowitz "Communicating About David Horowitz" in ''[[Insider Higher Ed]]'' February 19, 2008]</ref> An association official said the decision was based in part on Horowitz's request to be provided with a stipend for $500 to hire a personal bodyguard. Association officials decided that having a bodyguard present "communicates the expectation of confrontation and violence." <ref name="IHE">[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/19/horowitz "Communicating About David Horowitz" in ''[[Insider Higher Ed]]'' February 19, 2008]</ref>⏎
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==Academic Bill of Rights==
{{See also|Academic freedom}}
The issue of "political abuse" of the university is currently Horowitz's main focus.  He, Eli Lehrer, and [[Bruin Alumni Association|Andrew Jones]] published a pamphlet, "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities" (2004), in which they find the ratio of Democrats to Republicans at 32 schools to be more than 10 to 1.<ref name="wtimescollege">{{cite web|url=http://(contracted; show full)[[Category:Racism]]
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