Editing David Horowitz (section)

==Career==
=== New Left ===
After completing his graduate degree, Horowitz lived in London during the mid-1960s and worked for the [[Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/it-s-islamo-fascism-awareness-week-coming-to-a-campus-near-you.html|title=It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, Coming to a Campus Near You!|first=Alexander|last=Cockburn|author-link=Alexander Cockburn|date=October 27, 2007|publisher=creators.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102084415/http://www.creators.com/opinion/alexander-cockburn/it-s-islamo-fascism-awareness-week-coming-to-a-campus-near-you.html|archive-date=January 2, 2016|df=mdy}} originally published in ''Counterpunch'' October 27, 2007</ref><ref name="nord1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368222/witness-part-i-jay-nordlinger|author=Jay Nordlinger|author-link=Jay Nordlinger|newspaper=National Review Online|title=A Witness, Part I: The meaning of David Horowitz|date=January 14, 2014}}</ref> He identified as a [[Marxism|Marxist]] intellectual.

In 1966, [[Ralph Schoenman]] persuaded [[Bertrand Russell]] to convene his [[Russell Tribunal|war crimes tribunal]] to judge United States involvement in the [[Vietnam War]].{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=146–53}} Horowitz would write three decades later that he had political reservations about the tribunal and did not take part. He described the tribunal's judges as formidable, world-famous and radical. They included [[Isaac Deutscher]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Stokely Carmichael]], [[Simone de Beauvoir]], [[Vladimir Dedijer]] and [[James Baldwin]].{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=147–53}} In January 1966, Horowitz, along with members of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group, formed the [[Vietnam Solidarity Campaign]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/britain-at-war-over-vietnam/|title = Britain at war over Vietnam}}</ref> The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organized a series of protests in London against British support for the [[Vietnam War]].

While in London, Horowitz became a close friend of Deutscher, and wrote a biography of him.<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|access-date=January 8, 2010}}</ref><ref>''Isaac Deutscher: The Man and His Work.'' London: Macdonald, 1971.</ref> Horowitz wrote ''The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War''. In January 1968, Horowitz returned to the United States, where he became co-editor of the New Left magazine ''[[Ramparts (magazine)|Ramparts]]'', settling in northern California.<ref name="nord1" />

During the early 1970s, Horowitz developed a close friendship with [[Huey P. Newton]], founder of the [[Black Panther Party]]. Horowitz later portrayed Newton as equal parts gangster, terrorist, intellectual and media celebrity.<ref name="nord1" /> As part of their work together, Horowitz helped raise money for, and assisted the Panthers with, the running of a school for poor children in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]]. He recommended that Newton hire [[Murder of Betty Van Patter|Betty Van Patter]] as bookkeeper; she was then working for ''Ramparts''. In December 1974, Van Patter's  battered, decomposed body was found on a beach in [[San Francisco Bay]]; she had been murdered. It is widely believed that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, a belief also held by Horowitz.<ref name="nord1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/print/article/david-horowitzs-long-march|title=David Horowitz's Long March|date=15 June 2000|publisher=Thenation.com|access-date=April 23, 2013|last1=Sherman|first1=Scott}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=recDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT28 |title=The Strange Journey of David Horowitz |magazine=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |last1=Browning |first1=Frank |date=May 1987 |pages=27–38}}</ref><ref>Pearson, Hugh (1994). The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. Da Capo Press. p. 328. ISBN 0-201-48341-6.</ref><ref>"Left-leaving, left-leaning" Archived 2016-06-30 at the Wayback Machine, Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times, November 16, 2003.</ref><ref>Kelley, Ken. September 15, 1989. "Huey Newton: I'll Never Forget". East Bay Express, Volume 11, No. 49. https://archive.org/details/Huey-Never-Forget-1989</ref>

In 1976, Horowitz was a "founding sponsor" of [[James Weinstein (author)|James Weinstein]]'s magazine ''[[In These Times (magazine)|In These Times]]''.<ref>
{{cite web|title=About|publisher=In These Times|url=http://inthesetimes.com/about|access-date=March 22, 2015}}</ref>

===Rightward evolution===
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Following this period, Horowitz rejected [[Karl Marx|Marx]] and socialism, but kept quiet about his changing politics for nearly a decade.

In early 1985, Horowitz and Collier, who also became a political conservative, wrote an article for ''[[The Washington Post|The Washington Post Magazine]]'' titled "Lefties for [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]", later retitled as "Goodbye to All That". The article explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for a second term for Republican President Ronald Reagan.<ref>{{cite web|author1=Horowitz, David|author2=Collier, Peter|title=Lefties for Reagan|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1985/03/17/lefties-for-reagan/c3d58778-8ec9-4463-9252-3a032e078d36/|website=Washington Post Magazine|pages=8–?|date=March 17, 1985}}</ref>{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=356–57}}<ref>{{Cite book|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=gGEJDAAAQBAJ|page=155}}|title=The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz|last=Horowitz|first=David|date=2016-04-05|publisher=Encounter Books|isbn=978-1-59403-870-9|pages=155|language=en}}</ref> In 1986, Horowitz published "Why I Am No Longer a Leftist" in ''[[The Village Voice]]''.<ref name="nord2">{{cite news|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368496/witness-part-ii-jay-nordlinger|title=A Witness, Part II: The meaning of David Horowitz|author=Nordlinger, Jay|newspaper=National Review Online|date=January 15, 2014}}</ref>

In 1987, Horowitz co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by [[Sidney Blumenthal]] in ''The Washington Post'' as his "coming out" as a conservative.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blumenthal |first1=Sidney |title=Thunder on the New Right {{!}} A conference where the converted don't quite reach their goal |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/10/19/thunder-on-the-new-right-a-conference-where-the-converted-dont-quite-reach-their-goal/d3d1f1fa-bc89-41fa-9c7f-3ae48e90b3f9/ |access-date=26 December 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=19 October 1987}}</ref>

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In May 1989, Horowitz, [[Ronald Radosh]], and Collier attended a conference in [[Kraków]] calling for the end of Communism.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=388}} After marching with Polish dissidents in an anti-regime protest, Horowitz spoke about his changing thoughts and why he believed that socialism could not create their future. He said his dream was for the people of Poland to be free.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=391}}

In 1992, Horowitz and Collier founded ''[[David Horowitz Freedom Center#Heterodoxy magazine|Heterodoxy]],'' a monthly magazine focused on exposing what it described as excessive [[political correctness]] on United States college and university campuses. It was "meant to have the feel of a [[samizdat]] publication inside the [[gulag]] of the PC [politically correct] university". The tabloid was directed at university students, whom Horowitz viewed as indoctrinated by the entrenched Left.<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz David Horowitz profile], splcenter.org; accessed August 10, 2016.</ref> In ''Radical Son'', he wrote that universities were no longer effective in presenting both sides of political arguments. He stated that left-wing professors had created an atmosphere of political "terror" on campuses.{{sfn|Horowitz|2011|p=405–06}}

In a 2001 column in ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]''<ref name="bad"/> he described his opposition to [[reparations for slavery]], calling it racism against blacks, as it defined them only in terms of their descent from slaves. He argued that applying labels like "descendants of [[slavery|slaves]]" to blacks was damaging and would serve to [[racial segregation|segregate]] them from mainstream society. In the same year during [[Black History Month]], Horowitz attempted to purchase advertising space in several American university student publications to express his opposition to reparations.<ref name="bad" /> Many student papers refused to sell him ad space; at some schools, papers that carried his ads were stolen or destroyed.<ref name="bad">{{cite news|url=https://www.salon.com/2001/03/09/horowitz_24/|title=Who's afraid of the big, bad Horowitz?|access-date=February 1, 2007|first=Joan|last=Walsh|date=March 9, 2001|work=Salon.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103215150/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/09/horowitz/|archive-date=January 3, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Joan Walsh said the furor had given Horowitz an overwhelming amount of free publicity.<ref name="bad" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.projo.com/words/brown2.htm|title=Embattled editors get Herald out at Brown|access-date=February 1, 2007|first=Si|last=Rosenbaum|date=March 18, 2001|publisher=The Providence Journal Company}}</ref>

In 2005, Horowitz launched [[Discover the Networks]].

Horowitz appeared in ''Occupy Unmasked'', a 2012 documentary portraying the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement as a sinister organization formed to violently destroy the American government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/2012-republican-convention-occupy-screening-protest-michael-moore-367096|title=2012 Republican Convention: 'Occupy' Screening Brings Cheers, Protests|last1=Bond|first1=Paul|date=August 30, 2012|work=hollywoodreporter.com|publisher=hollywood reporter|access-date=September 25, 2012}}</ref>

In 2018, Horowitz attracted many critical comments by attacking the [[Equal Justice Initiative]]'s new [[National Memorial for Peace and Justice]], calling it "a real racist project"<ref>{{cite magazine
|title=Anti-Muslim figurehead and funder David Horowitz minimizes terrors of lynching
|author=Hatewatch Staff
|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/04/12/anti-muslim-figurehead-and-funder-david-horowitz-minimizes-terrors-lynching
|website=SPLC Hatewatch
|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]
|access-date=June 9, 2018
|date=April 12, 2018}}</ref> showing "anti-white racism".<ref name=Twitter /> "Lynchings were bad but they weren't mainly about whites yanking blacks off the streets and stringing them up".<ref name=Twitter>{{cite web
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|first=David
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|date=April 9, 2018
|access-date=June 10, 2018
|url=https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983512961816788992
|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180410184948/https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983512961816788992
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=April 10, 2018
}}</ref> "A third of the victims of lynchings were white. How many of them do you think this memorial features {{sic}}."<ref>{{cite web
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|last=Horowitz
|publisher=Twitter
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|access-date=June 10, 2018
|url=https://twitter.com/horowitz39/status/983130398040322048
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===Academic Bill of Rights===
In the early 21st century, Horowitz concentrated on issues of academic freedom, attempting to protect conservative viewpoints. 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 [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] to [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] at 32 schools to be more than 10 to 1.<ref name="wtimescollege">{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/apr/20/20040420-084524-4394r|title=College update|last=Williams|first=Walter|date=April 20, 2004|work=The Washington Times|access-date=January 8, 2010}}</ref> Horowitz's book, ''[[The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America]]'' (2006), criticized individual professors for, as he alleges, engaging in indoctrination rather than a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.<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|access-date=February 1, 2007|publisher=Students For Academic Freedom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218163553/http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=5|archive-date=February 18, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Horowitz published an [[Academic Bill of Rights]] (ABR), which he proposes to eliminate political bias in university hiring and grading. He says conservatives, and particularly [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] members, are systematically excluded from faculties, citing statistical studies on faculty party affiliation.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/11/opinion/where-cronies-dwell.html |title=Where Cronies Dwell|access-date=September 10, 2018|first=John|last=Tierney|date=October 11, 2005|work=The New York Times}}</ref> In 2004 the Georgia General Assembly passed a resolution on a 41–5 vote to adopt a version of the ABR for state educational institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaup-ca.org/Larkin_abor.html|title=What's Not To Like About The Academic Bill of Rights|publisher=Aaup-ca.org|access-date=April 23, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130121095713/http://aaup-ca.org/Larkin_abor.html|archive-date=January 21, 2013}}</ref> In [[Pennsylvania]], the House of Representatives created a special legislative committee to investigate issues of academic freedom, including whether students who hold unpopular views need more protection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/16/tabor|title=Who Won the Battle of Pennsylvania?|access-date=February 2, 2007|first=Scott|last=Jaschik|date=November 16, 2006|website=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|access-date=February 2, 2007|first=Scott|last=Jaschik|date=November 22, 2006|website=Inside Higher Ed}}</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|access-date=February 2, 2007|first=Sara|last=Dogan|date=November 16, 2006|publisher=Students For Academic Freedom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609093751/http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2308&Itemid=52|archive-date=June 9, 2007}}</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|access-date=February 2, 2007|first=David|last=Horowitz|date=December 6, 2006|publisher=Students For Academic Freedom|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218004730/http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2324&Itemid=40|archive-date=February 18, 2007}}</ref>

===David Horowitz Freedom Center===
In 1998 Horowitz and [[Peter Collier (writer)|Peter Collier]] founded the ''[[David Horowitz Freedom Center]].''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Charity Navigator − Rating for David Horowitz Freedom Center|url=https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/954194642|access-date=2022-01-18|website=www.charitynavigator.org|language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Politico]]'' states that Horowitz's activities and DHFC are funded in part by Aubrey and Joyce Chernick and The [[Bradley Foundation]]. Politico stated that during 2008–2010, "the lion's share of the $920,000 it [DHFC] provided over the past three years to [[Jihad Watch]] came from [Joyce] Chernick".<ref>Smith, Ben (September 4, 2010). "[https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2010/09/mosques-and-money-029008 Mosques and Money]" (blog post). Politico.com. Retrieved September 10, 2018.</ref> Between July 2000 and February 2006 the freedom center provided a total of $43,000 in funding for 25 trips taken by Republican senators and representatives including [[Mike Pence]], [[Mitch McConnell]], [[Bob Barr]], [[Fred Thompson]] and others.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-09-27 |title=C-SPAN: Campaign Finance Database |url=http://cspan.politicalmoneyline.com/cgi-win/x_PrivateSponsor.exe?DoFn=1987625 |access-date=2022-01-18 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191456/http://cspan.politicalmoneyline.com/cgi-win/x_PrivateSponsor.exe?DoFn=1987625 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2015, Horowitz made $583,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=583000|start_year=2015}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) from the organization.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last1=O'Harrow|first1=Robert Jr.|last2=Boburg|first2=Shawn|date=2017-06-03|title=How a 'shadow' universe of charities joined with political warriors to fuel Trump's rise|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-a-shadow-universe-of-charities-joined-with-political-warriors-to-fuel-trumps-rise/2017/06/03/ff5626ac-3a77-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html|access-date=2021-11-07|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

Horowitz was the editor of the Center's website ''[[FrontPage Magazine]]''. It has been described by scholars and writers as right-wing,{{refn|name=right-wing|<ref name="Philip-2007">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IilDVBzWiGAC&pg=PA183|title=God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis|last=Jenkins|first=Philip|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-988612-8|language=en|pages=14, 182|quote=ultra-conservative [p. 14] ... right-wing [p. 182]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Lisa Wangsness|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/12/05/interfaith-marriage-our-times-muslim-and-jewish-groups-form-coalition-fight-bigotry/CNWEiTfqg3erGIHC5XKhvJ/story.html|title=An interfaith marriage of our times: Muslim and Jewish groups form coalition to fight bigotry |work=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=December 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Dan Conifer|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-11/pauline-hanson-sections-of-party-policies-lifted-from-internet/7587652|title=Text slabs from Pauline Hanson's One Nation policies lifted from internet|date=July 11, 2016|publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319711102|title=Islam, Securitization, and US Foreign Policy|author=Erdoan A. Shipoli|series=SpringerLink |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2018|page=247|language=en}}</ref>}} far-right,{{refn|name=far-right|<ref>{{Cite web|author=David Kenner|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/09/10/how-assad-wooed-the-american-right-and-won-the-syria-propaganda-war/|title=How Assad Wooed the American Right, and Won the Syria Propaganda War|website=Foreign Policy|date=September 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Behrmann|first=Savannah|title=Advocacy group releases leaked emails from White House adviser Stephen Miller to Breitbart|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/12/emails-show-white-house-advisor-stephen-miller-tauting-white-nationalism/2582150001/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Did Merriam-Webster Update Its Definition of 'Racism' To Say Only White People Are Racist?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/merriam-webster-definition-racism/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=Snopes.com|date=June 17, 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref>}} [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]],{{refn|name=Islamophobic|<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ekman|first1=Mattias|title=Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: manufacturing the green scare|journal=[[Ethnic and Racial Studies]]|date=30 March 2015|volume=38|issue=11|pages=1986–2002|doi=10.1080/01419870.2015.1021264|s2cid=144218430|issn=0141-9870}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Abu-Lughod |first1=Lila |authorlink=Lila Abu-Lughod |title=The cross-publics of ethnography: The case of "the Muslimwoman" |journal=[[American Ethnologist]] |date=November 2016 |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=595–608 |doi=10.1111/amet.12377 |url=https://arktimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/pdf-abu-lughod-2.pdf |access-date=7 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ernst |first1=Carl W.| authorlink=Carl W. Ernst |title=Islamophobia in America: the anatomy of intolerance |date=March 20, 2013 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-1-137-29007-6 |page=142}}</ref>}} and anti-Islam.{{refn|name=anti-Islam|<ref>{{Cite news|author=David Noriega|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidnoriega/the-muslim-brotherhood-and-muslim-civil-rights-groups|title=How One Policy Change Could Wipe Out Muslim Civil Liberties|work=BuzzFeed|date=November 16, 2016|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-brotherhood-ted-cruz_us_58764d44e4b092a6cae42666|title=Ted Cruz vs. The Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman|last=Mathias|first=Christopher|date=2017-01-13|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2018-08-20|language=en-US}}</ref>}}

=== Political positions ===
Horowitz was a former [[Marxism|Marxist]], but was later described as being conservative.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Horowitz |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/david-horowitz/ |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=FRONTLINE |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Godfather |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2014/godfather |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=May 24, 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2016-02-15 |title=Why Leftists Go Right |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/why-leftists-go-right |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |access-date=2022-09-30}}</ref> During his time in the New Left, Horowitz supported the [[civil rights movement]]. In the 1970s, he came to believe that the [[Black Panther Party|Black Panthers]] were involved in the death of his friend [[Murder of Betty Van Patter|Betty Van Patter]], souring the relationship between Horowitz and the Black Panthers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Horowitz |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-horowitz |access-date=2022-01-18 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en |quote=Despite Horowitz being a founding intellectual member of the New Left in the 1960s, and an advocate for civil rights and equality, he has since the late 1980s become a driving force of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black movements.}}</ref>

Horowitz wrote against United States intervention in the [[Kosovo War]], arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to United States interests,<ref>22/Feb/1999 [https://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/fr022299.htm Clinton Kosovo Intervention Appears Imminent], senate.gov; accessed August 10, 2016.</ref> but supported the [[interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] foreign policy associated with the [[Bush Doctrine]], including the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=David |date=2002-11-26 |title=Joe Conason got it wrong |url=https://www.salon.com/2002/11/25/response_4/ |access-date=2022-03-17 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> He also wrote critically of [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] [[Anti-war movement|anti-war]] views.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 12, 2007 |title=CNN.com – Transcripts |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/12/gb.01.html |access-date=April 23, 2013 |publisher=Transcripts.cnn.com}}</ref>

Horowitz opposed [[Barack Obama]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-05-07 |title=How Obama Betrayed America |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/05/how-obama-betrayed-america-david-horowitz/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}</ref> [[illegal immigration]], [[gun control]], and [[Islam]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1999-07-06|title=What's gun control got to do with it?|url=https://www.salon.com/1999/07/06/guns_4/|access-date=2021-10-07|website=Salon|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Guerrero|first=Jean|title=The Man Who Made Stephen Miller|url=https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/01/stephen-miller-david-horowitz-mentor-389933|access-date=2021-10-07|website=POLITICO|date=August 2020 |language=en}}</ref> He endorsed Presidents [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George W. Bush]], and [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-20 |title='Trump is 100% right': David Horowitz, the thinker who sponsored Stephen Miller |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/donald-trump-david-horowitz-stephen-miller-family-separation-border-policy |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-10 |title=The Life and Work of David Horowitz |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/david-horowitz-journey-left-right/ |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=David |date=1999-05-06 |title="I'm a uniter, not a divider" |url=https://www.salon.com/1999/05/06/bush_2/ |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref>

Horowitz described himself as "a defender of gays and 'alternative lifestyles', a moderate on abortion, and a civil rights activist".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horowitz |first=David |date=2002-07-16 |title=One fishy argument |url=https://www.salon.com/2002/07/15/fish_3/ |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref>

===Criticism of Islam and Arab cultures===
Horowitz was critical of [[Palestinians]], claiming that their goal is to wipe out Jews from the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-04-04 |title=The Palestinians' true cause |url=https://www.salon.com/2002/04/04/israel_35/ |access-date=2021-10-07 |website=Salon |language=en}}</ref> “No people have shown themselves as so morally sick as the Palestinians,” he said at Brooklyn College in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Horowitz |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/david-horowitz/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center |language=en-US}}</ref>

Horowitz published a 2007 piece in the [[Columbia University]] student newspaper, saying that, according to public opinion polls, "150 million out of 750 million Muslims support a holy war against Christians, Jews, and other Muslims."<ref>{{cite web |title=Columbia Daily Spectator |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2007/10/19/david-horowitz-awareness/ |access-date=November 6, 2018 |website=Columbiaspectator.com}}</ref> Speaking at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] in February 2010, Horowitz compared Islamists to Nazis, saying: "Islamists are worse than the Nazis, because even the Nazis did not tell the world that they want to exterminate the Jews."<ref name="horowitz">{{cite news |date=February 25, 2010 |title=Horowitz Brings Controversial Ideas to Student Union |url=http://dailycollegian.com/2010/02/25/controversial-author-horowitz-lectures-umass-students |website=Dailycollegian.com}}</ref>

Horowitz created a campaign for what he called "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" in parody of multicultural awareness activities. He helped arrange for leading critics of radical Islam to speak at more than a hundred college campuses in October 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Student's Guide to Hosting Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week |url=http://terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism-awareness-week/49/a-students-guide-to-hosting-islamo-fascism-awareness-week/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011040510/http://terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism-awareness-week/49/a-students-guide-to-hosting-islamo-fascism-awareness-week/ |archive-date=11 October 2007 |website=terrorismawareness.org}}</ref> As a speaker, he was repeatedly met with intense hostility.<ref>{{cite news |author=Goldberg, Jonah |author-link=Jonah Goldberg |date=May 18, 2010 |title=Left, right and wrong |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-18-la-oe-goldberg-censor-20100518-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610103116/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/18/opinion/la-oe-goldberg-censor-20100518 |archive-date=June 10, 2010 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Trotten |first=Michael J. |date=May 13, 2010 |title=A Most Disturbing Moment of Clarity |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/topic/jumanah-imad-albahri/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814181219/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/topic/jumanah-imad-albahri/ |archive-date=August 14, 2014 |access-date=August 14, 2014 |magazine=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]] |df=mdy}}</ref>

In 2008, while speaking at [[University of California, Santa Barbara]] (UCSB), Horowitz criticized Arab culture, saying that it was rife with [[antisemitism]].<ref name="UCSBevent">{{cite news |author=Preston, Ben |date=May 15, 2008 |title=David Horowitz Provokes Extreme Response with Anti-Arab Remarks |url=http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/15/david-horowitz-provokes-extreme-response-anti-arab |work=[[Santa Barbara Independent]]}}</ref> He referred to the [[Palestinian keffiyeh]], a traditional Arab head covering that became associated with [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] leader [[Yasser Arafat]], as a “symbol of terrorism”. In response, [[University of California, Santa Barbara|UCSB]] professor Walid Afifi said that Horowitz was "preaching hate" and smearing Arab culture.<ref name="UCSBevent" />

Horowitz used university student publications and lectures at universities as venues for publishing controversial advertisements or lecturing on issues related to Islamic student and other organizations. In April 2008, DHFC advertised in the ''[[Daily Nexus]],'' the UCSB school newspaper, saying that the Muslim Students' Association (MSA) had links with the [[Muslim Brotherhood]], [[Al-Qaeda]], and [[Hamas]].<ref name="Horowitzad">{{cite news |last=Gottlieb |first=Benjamin |date=April 24, 2008 |title=Speaker Addresses Jihad, Role of U.S. in the Middle East |url=http://www.dailynexus.com/2008-04-24/speaker-addresses-jihad-role-of-us-in-the-middle-east/ |access-date=February 27, 2017 |newspaper=[[Daily Nexus]]}}</ref> The next month, Horowitz, speaking at UCSB, said that MSA supports "a second Holocaust of the Jews".<ref name="UCSBevent" /> The MSA responded that they were a peaceful organization and not a political group.<ref name="Horowitzad" /> The MSA's faculty adviser 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" /> Horowitz ran the ad in ''[[The GW Hatchet]]'', the student newspaper of [[George Washington University]] in Washington, D.C. Jake Sherman, the ''Hatchet''<nowiki/>'s editor-in-chief, said claims the MSA was radical were "ludicrous".<ref>{{cite news |date=April 21, 2008 |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 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202173700/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 |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |newspaper=[[The GW Hatchet]] |df=mdy}}</ref>

He became an early user of the question "[[Do you condemn Hamas?]]" which he directed to a Muslim student at the [[University of California, San Diego|University of California, San Diego (UCSD)]] on May 11, 2010.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last1=Culture |first1=Ryan Smith Senior Pop |last2=Reporter |first2=Entertainment |date=2023-10-12 |title=David Horowitz's "harrowing" Hamas exchange with student goes viral |url=https://www.newsweek.com/david-horowitz-harrowing-hamas-exchange-student-goes-viral-1834263 |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Lopez-Hodoyan • • |first=Katia |date=2010-05-17 |title=UCSD Student's Remark Triggers Controversy |url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/ucsd-students-remark-triggers-controversy/1892567/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=NBC 7 San Diego |language=en-US}}</ref> The student was a member of UCSD's Muslim Student Association, then holding Justice in Palestine Week, which students said Horowitz had referred to as "Hitler Youth Week".<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> In 2017, Horowitz's Freedom Center targeted pro-Palestinian professors and students.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stahl |first=Aviva |date=2017-10-03 |title=Poster Campaign Calls Brooklyn College Students 'Terrorist Supporters' |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/david-horowitz-is-putting-up-posters-calling-brooklyn-college-students-terrorist-supporters/ |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=The Village Voice |language=en-US}}</ref>

In a 2011 review of anti-Islamic activists in the US, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] identified Horowitz as one of ten people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle".<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/the-anti-muslim-inner-circle "The Anti-Muslim Inner Circle,"] ''Intelligence Report'', Summer 2011, Issue Number: 142, Splcenter.org; accessed August 10, 2016.</ref> He was also described as "the godfather of the anti-[[Muslims|Muslim]] movement",<ref>{{cite book|url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/files/192414854/Aked_Jones_Miller_Counterjihad_report_2019.pdf|last1=Aked|first1=H.|last2=Jones|first2=M.|last3=Miller|first3=D.|year=2019|title=Islamophobia in Europe: How governments are enabling the far-right 'counter-jihad' movement|series=Public Interest Investigations|publisher=University of Bristol|page=57|isbn=978-0-9570274-9-7|hdl=1983/cd525157-683a-493b-b27f-9a5ffbca312c|hdl-access=free}}</ref> and as "possibly the number one [[counter-jihad]] personality", financing many other groups through his organization.<ref>{{cite news|first=Nikolaj|last=Nielsen|publisher=EU Observer|title=EU authorities accused of blindness on 'counter-jihad' |url=http://euobserver.com/22/115896|date=April 16, 2012|access-date=May 3, 2012|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419162354/http://euobserver.com/22/115896|archive-date=April 19, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017 Horowitz's center put up posters on university campuses naming students and professors who support Palestinian rights, with the names taken from the anonymous doxxing group [[Canary Mission]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Campion |first=Angela |date=2017-09-26 |title=Targeted by David Horowitz? Fight Back: 6 Actions to Demand of Your University |url=https://palestinelegal.org/news/2017/9/26/targeted-by-david-horowitz-fight-back |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=Palestine Legal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stahl |first=Aviva |date=2017-10-03 |title=Poster Campaign Calls Brooklyn College Students 'Terrorist Supporters' |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/david-horowitz-is-putting-up-posters-calling-brooklyn-college-students-terrorist-supporters/ |access-date=2025-04-18 |website=The Village Voice |language=en-US}}</ref>