David Joel Horowitz was born on January 10,1939 and is an American conservative writer.
46 Facts About David Horowitz
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David Horowitz is a founder and president of the right-wing David Horowitz Freedom Center ; editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine; and director of Discover the Networks, a website that tracks individuals and groups on the political left.
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From 1956 to 1975, David Horowitz was an outspoken adherent of the New Left.
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David Horowitz later rejected progressive ideas and became a defender of neoconservatism.
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David Horowitz recounted his ideological journey in a series of retrospective books, culminating with his 1996 memoir Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey.
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David Horowitz's father taught English and his mother taught stenography.
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David Horowitz received a BA from Columbia University in 1959, majoring in English, and a master's degree in English literature at University of California, Berkeley.
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David Horowitz would write three decades later that he had political reservations about the tribunal and did not take part.
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David Horowitz described the tribunal's judges as formidable, world-famous and radical.
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David Horowitz wrote The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War.
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In January 1968, David Horowitz returned to the United States, where he became co-editor of the New Left magazine Ramparts, settling in northern California.
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David Horowitz later portrayed Newton as equal parts gangster, terrorist, intellectual and media celebrity.
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David Horowitz recommended that Newton hire Betty Van Patter as bookkeeper; she was then working for Ramparts.
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In 1976, David Horowitz was a "founding sponsor" of James Weinstein's magazine In These Times.
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In 1986, David Horowitz published "Why I Am No Longer a Leftist" in The Village Voice.
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In 1987, David Horowitz co-hosted a "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, DC, described by Sidney Blumenthal in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a conservative.
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David Horowitz said his dream was for the people of Poland to be free.
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The tabloid was directed at university students, whom David Horowitz viewed as indoctrinated by the entrenched Left.
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David Horowitz stated that left-wing professors had created an atmosphere of political "terror" on campuses.
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David Horowitz argued that applying labels like "descendants of slaves" to blacks was damaging and would serve to segregate them from mainstream society.
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David 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.
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In 2018, David 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" showing "anti-white racism".
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David Horowitz published an Academic Bill of Rights, which he proposes to eliminate political bias in university hiring and grading.
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David Horowitz says conservatives, and particularly Republican Party members, are systematically excluded from faculties, citing statistical studies on faculty party affiliation.
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David Horowitz is the editor of the Center's website FrontPage Magazine.
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David Horowitz is a former Marxist but is described as being Conservative.
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David Horowitz has described himself as "a defender of gays and alternative lifestyles, a moderate on abortion, and a civil rights activist".
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David Horowitz opposes Barack Obama, illegal immigration, gun control, and Islam.
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David Horowitz has criticized Palestinians, claiming that their goal is to wipe out Jews from the Middle East.
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David Horowitz has endorsed Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W Bush, and Donald Trump.
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David Horowitz supported the interventionist foreign policy associated with the Bush Doctrine, but wrote against US intervention in the Kosovo War, arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to US interests.
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David Horowitz supported attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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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 criminal.
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Dunkley said David 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".
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In 2008, while speaking at University of California, Santa Barbara, David Horowitz criticized Arab culture, saying that it was rife with antisemitism.
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David Horowitz referred to the Palestinian keffiyeh, a traditional Arab head covering that became associated with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, as a symbol of terrorism.
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David Horowitz has 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.
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The next month, David Horowitz, speaking at UCSB, said that MSA supports "a second Holocaust of the Jews".
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David Horowitz created a campaign for what he called "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" in parody of multicultural awareness activities.
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David Horowitz helped arrange for leading critics of radical Islam to speak at more than a hundred college campuses in October 2007.
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David Horowitz has been described as one of the most important personalities and public funders of the international counter-jihad movement.
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David Horowitz married Elissa Krauthamer, in a Yonkers, New York, synagogue on June 14,1959.
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David Horowitz had been a teacher, writer and human rights activist.
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David Horowitz is the subject of Horowitz's 2009 book, A Cracking of the Heart.
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David Horowitz's son, Ben, is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder, along with Marc Andreessen, of the venture capital firm Andreessen David Horowitz.
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On June 24,1990, David Horowitz married Shay Marlowe in an Orthodox Jewish ceremony.