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'''David Joel Horowitz''' (born January 10, 1939) is an American [[conservatism|conservative]] writer and policy advocate. Horowitz was a member of the [[New Left]] in the late 1960s before moving to the [[political right|right]] in the 1970s.

He is a founder and the president of the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]], edits the conservative ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]'', and writes for [[Christopher Ruddy]]'s conservative website [[NewsMax]].<ref>[http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nm/newsmax_pundits.cfm NewsMax Pundits<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Horowitz founded the right-leaning activist group [[Students for Academic Freedom]].

==Family==
Horowitz was born to a [[Jew]]ish family in [[Forest Hills, Queens|Forest Hills]]. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were high school teachers. He taught [[English studies|English]] and she taught [[stenography]].<ref name="radicalson">{{cite book|last=Horowitz|first=David|title=Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York, NY|year=1997|page=25}}</ref> Horowitz majored in English and received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from [[Columbia University]] in 1959 and a [[master's degree]] in English literature at [[University of California, Berkeley]].

His parents were long-standing members of the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]].<ref name="Chapin">{{cite web|url=http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=27747|title=Radical Son, Revisited|last=Chapin|first=Bernard|date=August 14, 2007|accessdate=8 January 2010}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref>Horowitz, David. ''Radical Son'', 39-40.</ref> Horowitz recounted his estrangement from his parents and gradual shift to the political right in a series of retrospectives, culminating in 1996 in his autobiographical book ''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey''.

Horowitz co-hosted a 1987 "Second Thoughts Conference" in [[Washington, D.C.]], described by [[Sidney Blumenthal]] in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as his "coming out" as a supporter of the right. According to attendee [[Alexander Cockburn]], at that conference Horowitz recounted that his communist parents had not permitted him or his sister to watch [[Doris Day]] and [[Rock Hudson]] movies, and instead required them to watch celebratory films about the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>Cockburn, Alexander. [http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05312003.html "A Whiner Called David Horowitz Moans at Sid Blumenthal and Imagined CIA Slur; A Commie Called Graydon Carter; What Chavez Said to Lula], ''CounterPunch'', May 31, 2003</ref>

==Career==
In the late 1960s, Horowitz was in [[London]] working for the [[Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation]]<ref>[http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/it-s-islamo-fascism-awareness-week-coming-to-a-campus-near-you.html "It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, Coming to a Campus Near You!" by [[Alexander Cockburn]] ] first published in ''Counterpunch'' Oct. 27, 2007</ref> where he studied under [[Ralph Miliband]] and [[Isaac Deutscher]]. In 1971, Horowitz wrote a biography of Deutscher.<ref name="WSarchive">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-155477123.html|title=Confronting the enemy within|last=Soupcoff|first=Marni|date=November 20, 2006|publisher=Western Standard |accessdate=8 January 2010}}</ref><ref>''Isaac Deutscher: The Man and his work.'' London: Macdonald, 1971.</ref>

Horowitz then wrote ''The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War'' and, in the early 1970s, became an editor at the New Left magazine, ''[[Ramparts (magazine)|Ramparts]].''

Horowitz was a supporter of [[Huey P. Newton]], and raised money for the [[Black Panther Party]]. He has written that he recommended that the Panther Party hire a bookkeeper, [[Betty Van Patter]], who was then working for Horowitz at ''Ramparts''. In December 1974, she was murdered.<ref>[http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20000703&s=sherman David Horowitz's Long March]</ref> While her murder is unsolved, it is widely accepted that the Panthers were responsible for her death, motivated by the desire to stop Van Patter from revealing the party's financial corruption. Later, he cited that experience as the catalyst for reassessing his views that took him from the political left to the political right.

==Activism on the Right==
In 1992, the ''[[Heterodoxy (magazine)|Heterodoxy magazine]]'', which Horowitz co-edited, was founded. The magazine focused on exposing excessive political correctness on American college and university campuses.

Horowitz has opposed [[reparations for slavery]] as something inherently [[racism|racist]] against blacks. He argues that applying labels like "descendents of [[slavery|slaves]]" to blacks would damage their self-esteem and [[racial segregation|segregate]] them from mainstream society.<ref name="whyreparations">{{cite web|url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1153 |title=Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too |accessdate=2007-02-01| first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2001-01-03 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref> Horowitz purchased, or attempted to purchase, advertising space in school publications in order to publicize his opinion that [[African Americans]] are not entitled to [[Reparation (legal)|reparations]] for [[Slavery in the United States]]. Many of these offers were refused and, at some schools, papers which carried the ads were stolen or destroyed.<ref name="whyreparations"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/09/horowitz/ |title=Who's afraid of the big, bad Horowitz? |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=Joan |last=Walsh |date=2001-03-09 |publisher=Salon.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.projo.com/words/brown2.htm |title=Embattled editors get Herald out at Brown |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=Si |last=Rosenbaum| date=2001-03-18 |publisher=The Providence Journal Company }}</ref>

While he supported the [[interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] foreign policy associated with the [[Bush Doctrine]], Horowitz opposed American intervention in the [[Kosovo War]], arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to U.S. interests.<ref>22/Feb/1999 [http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/fr022299.htm Clinton Kosovo Intervention Appears Imminent]</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1196 |title=Stop This War |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=1999-05-11 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref> He has recently been critical of [[libertarian]] [[anti-war]] views.<ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/12/gb.01.html CNN.com - Transcripts]</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Horowitz | first = David | authorlink = David Horowitz (conservative writer) | year = 2007 | url = http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=ca5cfcde-651b-45d1-b93a-dff2f3912525 | title = Indoctrination U | work = FrontPageMagazine.com | publisher = FrontPageMagazine.com | accessdate = 2007-03-05}}</ref>

In 2004, Horowitz launched [[Discover the Networks]], a conservative watchdog project that monitors funding for, and various ties among, leftists and [[Progressivism|progressive]] causes. In his 2004 book, ''Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left'', Horowitz contends that leftists support, intentionally or not, [[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 Hussein|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.&nbsp;93, 377)

Cloud replied in ''[[Inside Higher Ed]]'' that her experience demonstrates that Horowitz does real damage to professors' lives &mdash; and that he needs to be viewed as such, not just as a political opponent.
<blockquote>
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 &mdash; mostly via e-mail &mdash; "physical threats, threats of removing my daughter from my custody, threats of [[sexual assault]]s, horrible disgusting [[gender]]ed 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"/> 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"/>

Horowitz, through his [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]], funds [[Jihadwatch]], paying [[Robert Spencer (author)|Robert Spencer]] for the sites upkeep and continuation. <ref>David Horowitz tax form 990- year 2009[http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/08/robert-spencer-david-horowitz-cash-in-on-hate/]</ref> 

Horowitz was reported on a television appearance at the [[Riz Khan]] Show to have published on his Frontpage Mag website: ''Arabs do nothing on impulse, Muslims have no allegiance to their countries, [and] their only allegiance is to Islam, that’s what they have been taught since birth that’s all they know, Muslims have no borders”''<ref>al-Jazeera news:  Riz Khan show, 08/21/08, at marker number 4.01[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyQnMkMrjw]</ref><ref name="aljazeera1"> al-Jazeera news: Riz Khan show, transcript for 8/21/08[http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2008/08/200882191616950380.html]</ref>
In the same television program, Horowitz claimed that [[Muhammad]] called for the ''“extermination of Jews,”'' without offering any substantial evidence to this claim.<ref>al-Jazeera news:  Riz Khan show, 08/21/08, at marker number 3.16[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyQnMkMrjw]</ref><ref name="aljazeera1"/> 

Horowitz also states that he supports the ''“creation of a Palestinian State in Jordan”'' in opposition to international law's “two state” model.<ref>al-Jazeera news:  Riz Khan show, 08/21/08, at marker number 6.15[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyQnMkMrjw]</ref><ref name="aljazeera1"/>

==Academic Bill of Rights==
{{See also|Academic freedom}}
The issue of political abuse by universities 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 [[U.S. Democratic Party|Democrats]] to [[U.S. Republican Party|Republicans]] at 32 schools to be more than 10 to 1.<ref name="wtimescollege">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/20/20040420-084524-4394r/|title=College update|last=Williams|first=Walter|date=April 20, 2004|publisher=The Washington Times|accessdate=8 January 2010}}</ref>

Horowitz's book, ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'' (2006), criticizes individual professors for their professorial conduct. Horowitz accuses these professors of engaging in indoctrination rather than a disinterested pursuit of knowledge. Horowitz states that his campaign for academic freedom is ideologically neutral.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=5 |title=About Students for Academic Freedom |accessdate=2007-02-01 |publisher=Students For Academic Freedom }}</ref>

Horowitz and others promote his [[Academic Bill of Rights]] (ABR), an eight-point guide that seeks to eliminate political bias in university hiring and grading. Horowitz says that bias in universities amounts to indoctrination, and charges that conservatives and particularly Republicans are systematically excluded from faculties, citing statistical studies on faculty party affiliation.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://select.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/opinion/11tierney.html |title=Where Cronies Dwell |accessdate=2007-02-01 |first=John |last=Tierney |date=2005-10-11 |publisher=New York Times }}</ref> Critics of the proposed policy, such as [[Stanley Fish]], have argued that "academic diversity", as Horowitz describes it, is not a legitimate academic value, and that no endorsement of "diversity" can be absolute.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i23/23b01301.htm|title='Intellectual Diversity': the Trojan Horse of a Dark Design|accessdate=2007-02-02|first=Stanley|last=Fish |date=2004-02-13|publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education }}</ref>

In 2004 a version of the ABR was adopted by the Georgia General Assembly on a 41-5 vote.<ref>http://www.aaup-ca.org/Larkin_abor.html</ref><ref>http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sr661.htm</ref>

In [[Pennsylvania]], the House of Representatives created a special legislative committee to investigate the state of academic freedom and whether students who hold unpopular views need more protection. In November 2006 it reported that it couldn’t find evidence of problems with students’ rights.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/16/tabor |title=Who Won the Battle of Pennsylvania? |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |date=2006-11-16 |publisher=Inside Higher Ed }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/22/tabor |title=From Bad to Worse for David Horowitz|accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |date=2006-11-22 |publisher=Inside Higher Ed }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25899 |title=Victory in Pennsylvania |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Sara |last=Dogan |date=2006-12-08 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25619 |title=What We're Up Against—The Lying Pennsylvania Press |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2006-11-21 |publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2308&Itemid=52 |title=Pennsylvania Legislative Committee Advocates Sweeping Reforms to Campus Academic Freedom Policies |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=Sara |last=Dogan |date=2006-11-16 |publisher=Students For Academic Freedom}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2324&Itemid=40 |title=Pennsylvania’s Academic Freedom Reforms |accessdate=2007-02-02 |first=David |last=Horowitz |date=2006-12-06 |publisher=Students For Academic Freedom}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Horowitz has been married four times. His first wife, Elissa Krauthamer, of [[Berkeley, California]], is the mother of their four children, Jonathan Daniel, Benjamin Horowitz, Anne Pilat, and Sarah Rose Horowitz, who died in March 2008 at age 44 from [[Turner syndrome]]-related heart complications.<ref name="children">{{cite web|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/34713/teacher-writer-human-rights-activist-dies-unexpectedly-at-44/|title=Teacher, writer, human rights activist dies unexpectedly at 44 |last=Palevsky|first=Stacey|date=April 10, 2008|publisher=JWeekly.com|accessdate=8 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="timesdaughter">{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/25/you-can-lose-people-through-death-and-you-can-lose/|title=David Horowitz honors his daughter's life|last=Bunch|first=Sunny|date=November 25, 2009|publisher=The Washington Times|accessdate=8 January 2010}}</ref> She is the subject of Horowitz's 2009 book, ''A Cracking of the Heart.''<ref name="timesdaughter" />

Horowitz's daughter, Sarah, was a [[human rights]] activist who cooked for the [[homeless]], stood vigil at [[San Quentin]] on nights when the state of [[California]] executed prisoners, worked with [[Autism spectrum|autistic]] children in [[Public school (government funded)|public schools]], and with the [[American Jewish World Service]], helped rebuild homes in [[El Salvador]] after a hurricane and traveled to [[India]] to oppose [[child labor]].<ref>[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/34713/teacher-writer-human-rights-activist-dies-unexpectedly-at-44/ Teacher, writer, human rights activist dies unexpectedly at 44]</ref> In a review of Horowitz's paean<ref name="timesdaughter" /> to Sarah, in which Horowitz explores their estrangement and reconciliation, ''FrontPage'' magazine associate editor David Swindle wrote that she fused "the painful lessons of her father's life with a mystical [[Judaism]] to complete the task he never could: showing how the [[political left|Left]] could save itself from self-destruction."<ref>[http://rightwingnews.com/2009/12/those-who-despise-the-radical-son-will-fall-in-love-with-his-progressive-daughter/ "Those Who Despise the Radical Son Will Fall in Love With his Progressive Daughter" ]''Rightwing News'' Dec. 31, 2009</ref>

After ending his first marriage, Horowitz married Sam Moorman. When they later divorced, he married Shay Marlowe. After the marriage with Marlowe also ended in divorce, Horowitz married April Mullvain Horowitz, his present wife.<ref name="chronicleHE">{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i35/35a00801.htm|title=What Makes David Run: David Horowitz demands attention for the idea that conservatives deserve a place in academe|last=Jacobson|first=Jennifer|date=May 6, 2005|publisher=Chronicle Of Higher Education|accessdate=8 January 2010}} {{Subscription}}</ref><ref>Horowitz, David. Radical Son. ''Horowitz discusses his first three marriages in this book.''</ref> They live in [[Los Angeles County]].

==Controversy and criticism==
===Academia===
Some stories Horowitz has used as evidence that U.S. colleges and universities are bastions of liberal indoctrination have been disputed.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2006-05-31-horowitz-cover_x.htm | work=USA Today | title=Ex-liberal navigates right | date=2006-05-31 | accessdate=2010-05-01}}</ref> For example, Horowitz alleged that a [[University of Northern Colorado]] student received a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that [[George W. Bush]] is a [[war crimes|war criminal]].<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15043 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/archive/2005/March2005/UNColoradostorydetails031405.htm University of N. Colorado Story Confirmed - University of Northern Colorado - News - Students For Academic Freedom<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> A spokeswoman for the university said that the test question was not as described by Horowitz and that there were nonpolitical reasons for the grade, which was not an F.<ref name="autogenerated1" >[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/horowitz3_15 Tattered Poster Child :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Horowitz identified the professor in this story<ref name="insidehighered.com">[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/03/15/horowitz3_15 Tattered Poster Child in ''Inside Higher Ed''] March 15, 2005</ref> as Robert Dunkley, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Northern Colorado. Dunkley said Horowitz made him an example of "[[liberal bias]]" in academia and yet, "Dunkley said that he comes from a Republican family, is a registered Republican and considers himself politically independent, taking pride in never having voted a straight party ticket," ''[[Inside Higher Ed]]'' reported.<ref name="insidehighered.com"/> Dunkley said Horowitz never contacted him, but rather "cooked this whole thing up."

In another instance, Horowitz stated that a [[Pennsylvania State University]] [[biology]] professor showed his students the film ''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' just before the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 election]] in an attempt to influence their votes.<ref>The [[Students for Academic Freedom]] report [http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/literature/CFAF_v23gz.pdf "The Campaign for Academic Freedom,"] p. 38</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=18947 Article<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Pressed by ''[[Inside Higher Ed]]'', Horowitz reversed himself and retracted the story.<ref>[http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/01/11/retract Retractions From David Horowitz :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Horowitz has also come under fire for material in his books, particularly ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'', as [[New York University]] Professor [[Todd Gitlin]] has written.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/archives/002808.html SIVACRACY.NET: Todd Gitlin on Horowitz' "dangerous professors"<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The group Free Exchange on Campus issued a 50-page report in May 2006 in which they take issue with many of Horowitz's assertions in the book and describe what they see as factual errors, unsubstantiated assertions, and quotations which appear to be either misquoted or taken out of context.<ref>[http://www.freeexchangeoncampus.org/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=25&task=view_category&catid=12&order=dmdate_published&ascdesc=DESC Free Exchange on Campus - Downloads<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/05/09/report Fact-Checking David Horowitz :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/24935.html History News Network<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Some of the professors listed in the book as "dangerous" have replied.<ref name = "TheList" >[http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/13/list David Horowitz has a list - Insiderhighered<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Caroline Higgins says she finds it absurd that she's being criticized for teaching about peace and [[social justice]]. She also notes that she puts her syllabi online, so students already know what her beliefs are.<ref name = "TheList" /> Joe Feagin, whom Horowitz criticized for studying racism and [[sexism]], said that his conclusions are based on a 43-year research career in which he has published nearly 50 books and 180 research articles. Feagin asked about Horowitz's credentials, asking whether Horowitz has "done 40 years of solid research on racial and gender issues?"<ref name = "TheList" /> [[Juan Cole]], whom Horowitz criticized for his studies on the [[Middle East]], says of Horowitz: "He is an ideologue and he has a particular view of the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]] which cannot be sustained by anyone who studies the region with primary texts and a global perspective."<ref name = "TheList" />

===Allegations of racism===
[[Chip Berlet]], writing for the anti-racist [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC), identified Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture as one of 17 "right-wing foundations and [[think tank]]s support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable." Berlet accused Horowitz of blaming [[slavery]] on "black [[Africa]]ns … abetted by dark-skinned [[Arab]]s" and of "attack[ing] minority 'demands for special treatment' as 'only necessary because some blacks can't seem to locate the ladder of opportunity within reach of others,' rejecting the idea that they could be the victims of lingering [[racism]]."<ref>{{cite web|last = Berlet|first = Chip|year = 2003|url = http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=105|title = Into the Mainstream|work = Intelligence Report|publisher = [[Southern Poverty Law Center]]|accessdate = 2006-04-23}}</ref> Responding with an open letter to [[Morris Dees]], president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab [[slavery|slaver]]s was a response to demands that only whites pay blacks reparations, not to hold Africans and Arabs solely responsible for slavery, and that the statement that he had denied lingering racism was "a calculated and carefully constructed lie." The letter said that Berlet's work was "so tendentious, so filled with transparent misrepresentations and smears that if you continue to post the report you will create for your Southern Poverty Law Center a well-earned reputation as a [[hate group]] itself."<ref>{{cite web | last = Horowitz | first = David | authorlink = David Horowitz (conservative writer) | year = 2003 | url = http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=9622 | title = An Open Letter To Morris Dees | work = FrontPageMagazine.com | publisher = FrontPageMagazine.com | accessdate = 2006-04-23}}</ref> The SPLC refused,<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=9831</ref> and subsequent critical pieces on Berlet and the SPLC have been featured on Horowitz's website and personal blog.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9830 FrontPage Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Arabia | first = Chris | year = 2003 | url = http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10352 | title = Chip Berlet: Leftist Lie Factory | work = FrontPageMagazine.com | publisher = FrontPageMagazine.com | accessdate = 2006-04-23}}</ref>

[[Tim Wise]], lecturer and activist, has accused Horowitz of associating with racism. According to Wise, Horowitz has received $4 million from the [[Bradley Foundation]], which also financed ''[[The Bell Curve]]'' (a [[The Bell Curve#Criticisms|controversial]] book on [[Race (classification of humans)|race]] and [[intelligence]]).<ref>http://www.zcommunications.org/making-nice-with-racists-davidhorowitz-
and-the-soft-pedaling-of-white-supremacy-by-tim-wise ZNet Commentary: Making Nice With Racists: David Horowitz and The Soft Pedaling Of White Supremacy]</ref>

In 2008, while speaking at [[UCSB]], Horowitz stated that the [[keffiyah]], a traditional Arab head covering, is a symbol of terrorism. In response, UCSB professor Walid Afifi accused Horowitz of "preaching hate" and smearing Arab culture.<ref name=UCSBevent>{{cite news|title=David Horowitz Provokes Extreme Response with Anti-Arab Remarks|author=Ben Preston|url=http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/15/david-horowitz-provokes-extreme-response-anti-arab/|publisher=[[Santa Barbara Independent]]}}</ref>

===Muslims and universities===
On April, 2008, the 'David Horowitz Freedom Center' ran an [[advertisement]] in the ''[[Daily Nexus]]'', the [[University of California Santa Barbara]] school newspaper, alleging the Muslim Students' Association (MSA) of having links to the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], [[Al Qaeda]] and [[Hamas]].<ref name=Horowitzad>[http://www.dailynexus.com/2008-04-24/speaker-addresses-jihad-role-of-us-in-the-middle-east/ Speaker Addresses Jihad, Role of U.S. in the Middle East]</ref> In May 2008, Horowitz, speaking at UCSB, accused the Muslim Students' Association of supporting "a second [[Holocaust]] of the Jews".<ref name=UCSBevent/> The MSA responded by saying they were a peaceful organization and not a political group.<ref name=Horowitzad/> The MSA's faculty advisor said the group had "been involved in interfaith activities with Jewish student groups, and they’ve been involved in charity work for national [[disaster relief]]."<ref name=UCSBevent/> 

Around the same time Horowitz also ran the ad in [[The GW Hatchet]], claiming the MSA was a radical group. Jake Sherman, the newspaper's editor in chief, said claims the MSA was radical were "ludicrous", and promised to review his newspapers' editorial policies.<ref>{{cite news|title=An ad, certainly not an endorsement|url=http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2008/04/21/Opinions/Inside.Our.Pages.Jake.Sherman.An.Ad.Certainly.Not.An.Endorsement-3337362.shtml|publisher=[[The GW Hatchet]]}}</ref>

Horowitz has deemed the majority of Muslims to be radicals, and according to the [[Columbia Spectator]] newspaper, Horowitz claims ''"between 150 million and 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews and other Muslims."'' <ref>Columbia Spectator, 10/15/07[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2007/10/15/who-s-afraid-islamo-fascism-awareness-week]</ref>

At the [[University of Massachusetts]] Horowitz made numerous comparisons of Muslims to [[Nazi Germany]],  calling the Islamists worse. ''“Islamists are worse than the Nazis, because even the Nazis did not tell the world that they want to exterminate the Jews.”''  Horowitz also said ''“there are good Muslims and bad Muslims just like there were good Germans and bad Germans”'' and  ''“The Palestinians are Nazis. Every one of their elected officials are terrorists.”''<ref>Horowitz Brings Controversial Ideas to Student Union[http://dailycollegian.com/2010/02/25/controversial-author-horowitz-lectures-umass-students/]</ref>

During a speech at the [[University of California at Santa Barbara]], Horowitz accused students wearing green in support of the schools’ [[Muslim Student Association]] of supporting [[Hamas]], and students wearing Arab Keffiyehs of honoring [[Yassir Arafat]] and [[terrorism]]. <ref> Santa Barbara Independent, 5/15/08[http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/15/david-horowitz-provokes-extreme-response-anti-arab]/</ref>
Horowitz has also directed campaigns such as ''“Islamofascism Awareness Week“'', which brought leading anti-Muslim critics to more than a hundred college campuses in October 2007.<ref>A Student’s Guide to Hosting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week[http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism awareness-week/49/a-students-guide-to-hosting-islamo-fascism-awareness-week/]</ref>

In one Fox News appearance, Horowitz linked Muslim student associations on college campuses across the U.S. to the ''“terrorist Jihad against the West”:''
''“The point here is that there are 150 Muslim students’ associations, which are coddled by university administrations and treated as though they were ethnic or religious groups, when they are political groups that are arms of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the fountainhead of the terrorist jihad against the West.”''<ref>Fox News: Hannity and Colmes Show 5/9/08[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKHDftCvmHo]</ref>

On an [[Al-Jazeera]] broadcast, Horowitz states ''“The Muslim Students Association pretends to be a religious organization while it is really an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood…Hamas and Hezbollah.”'' He then quips that <i>“he has had many encounters with this [MSAs and the Muslim Brotherhood] and that is how my views are correct…they need to condemn Hamas and Hezbollah as a terrorist organization for me to leave them alone…”</i><ref>al-Jazeera news:  Riz Khan show, 08/21/08, at marker number 1.52[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqyQnMkMrjw]</ref><ref> al-Jazeera news: Riz Khan show, transcript for 8/21/08[http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2008/08/200882191616950380.html]</ref>

On an appearance with [[Neil Cavuto]] of Fox News on August 15th of 2006, Horowitz stated that: ''“there are 150 Muslim student associations on universities in the U.S., created by Hamas and funded by Saudi Arabia…they [the Muslim student associations] are Wahabbi, Islamists, and basically support our enemies.”''<ref>Fox News: Neil Cavuto Show 8/15/06[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab92idO65T4]</ref> Horowitz doesn’t provide proofs to substantiate these allegations.

==Books and other publications==
* ''Student: The Political Activities of the Berkeley Students'' (New York: Ballantine Books, 1962)
* ''Corporations and the Cold War'' (editor) (New York: Monthly Review, 1969)
* ''Sinews of Empire'' Ramparts, October 1969, pp.&nbsp;32–42
* ''Empire and Revolution: A Radical Interpretation of Contemporary History'' (1969) ISBN 0-394-70856-3
* ''Corporations and the Cold War'', edited, and with introduction (1970) ISBN 0-85345-160-5
* ''The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War'' (1971) ISBN 0-8090-0107-1
* ''Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties'', ed. by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989)  ISBN 0-8191-7148-4
* ''Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s'', by Peter Collier and David Horowitz (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1989)  ISBN 0-671-66752-1
* ''Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey'' (New York: The Free Press, 1997) autobiography ISBN 0-684-82793-x
* ''The Race Card: White Guilt, Black Resentment, and the Assault on Truth and Justice'' (Prima Lifestyles, 1997) ISBN 0761509429
* ''Hating Whitey: and Other Progressive Causes'' (Spence Publishing, 1999)  ISBN 1-890626-21-X
* ''The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future'' (Free Press, 2000) ISBN 0684856794
* ''The Art of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits'' (Spence Publishing, 2000) ISBN 1890626287
* ''How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas'' (Spence Publishing, 2002) ISBN 1890626414
* ''Uncivil Wars: The Controversy Over Reparations For Slavery'' (2002) ISBN 1-893554-44-9
* ''Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey'' (Spence Publishing, 2003)  ISBN 1-890626-51-1
* ''Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left'' ([[Regnery Publishing]], 2004) ISBN 0-89526-076-X
*''[[The Anti-Chomsky Reader]]'' with Peter Collier ([[Encounter Books]], 2004) ISBN 1-893554-97-X
* ''The End Of Time'' (2005) ISBN 1-59403-080-4
* ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'' ([[Regnery Publishing]], 2006) ISBN 0-89526-003-4
* ''Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party'' (Thomas Nelson Books, 2007) ISBN 1595551034
* ''Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom'' ([[Encounter Books]], 2007) ISBN 1594031908
*{{cite book|title= Cracking of the Heart|publisher=Regnery Press|date=October 26, 2009|isbn=9781596981034}}

===Histories co-authored with Peter Collier===

* ''The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty'' (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976)  ISBN 0-03-008371-0
* ''The Kennedys: An American Drama'' (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1985)  ISBN 0-671-44793-9
* ''The Fords: An American Epic'' (New York: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 0-671-66951-6
* ''The Roosevelts: An American Saga'' (1994)

==Notes==
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==Alternative academic views==
* [[Marc H. Ellis|Ellis, M. H.]] (1997) ''Unholy alliance: religion and atrocity in our time'' Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers. ISBN 0-8006-3080-7.
* [[Henry Giroux]] (2006) ''America on the Edge'' New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7159-5.

==External links==
{{Sister project links}}
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*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/ FrontPageMag.com]
*[http://www.newsrealblog.com/ David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog]
*[http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/ Horowitz Freedom Center]
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=27 Bibliography Of Published Works]
*[http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/ Students for Academic Freedom] - promotional website for Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights"

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