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===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 β 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 2008β2010, "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=1986β2002|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=595β608 |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>}}
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