Editing David Horowitz (section)

===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>