DHFC is a501(c)(3) charity. In 2005 it had revenues of $4.9 million, expenses of $4.0 million, 8.4% of which was $336,000 compensation for David Horowitz.[1] For 2008 the DHFC reported on IRS Form 990 revenues of $5,466,103 and expenses of $5,994,547 with total compensation to David Horowitz of $480,162 and to vice-president Peter Collier of $228,744.[11][needs update] In 2015, Horowitz made $583,000 from the organization – that same year, the organization received $5.4 million in donations.[5]
FrontPage Magazine – a political website edited by Horowitz that has been described by scholars and writers as right-wing,[15][16][17] far-right,[18] and anti-Islam.[19][20]
Discover the Networks[21] – a database of alleged left-wing agendas, activists and groups. After two years of development, they went online in February 2005, with a staff of two at a cost of about $500,000.[22]
Heterodoxy was anews magazine published in atabloid format by the center, edited by David Horowitz andPeter Collier. Its focus was exposing the excesses of "political correctness" on college and university campuses across the United States, describing itself as “an irreverent monthly journal combating the folly of political correctness.”[26]
Truth Revolt - a political website with the mission of destroying what it referred to as the leftist media "where they stand."[27] The editor-in-chief of the site wasBen Shapiro and the managing editor wasJeremy Boreing. Boreing was fired from the website in 2015, and Shapiro resigned shortly after.[28]Mark Tapson took over as editor-in-chief. The site closed in March 2018.[29]
Chip Berlet, writing for the SPLC, accused Horowitz of blaming slavery on "black Africans ... abetted by dark-skinned Arabs" 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."[33]
A 2011 report authored by Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matthew Duss, Lee Fang, Scott Keyes and Faiz Shakir of theCenter for American Progress cited Horowitz as a prominent figure instrumental in propagatingIslamophobia and spreading fear about an Islamic takeover ofWestern society.[34] Horowitz responded, saying that the Center had "joined theMuslim Brotherhood".[35]
^Maureen Ryan.The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front and the Aftermath in American Narratives of the Vietnam (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War Culture, Politics, and the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center). Univ. of Massachusetts Press. p. 213.
^"Our Mission".Truth Revolt. February 10, 2014. Archived from the original on February 10, 2014. RetrievedMay 1, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^Berlet, Chip (2003)."Into the Mainstream".Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived fromthe original on May 10, 2006. RetrievedApril 23, 2006.
