Here are the one hundred most dangerous University professors in the United States, according to David Horowitz.

al-Arian, Sami
al-Mazrui, Ali
Alam, M. Shahid
Algar, Hamid
Anderson, Lisa
Anidjar, Gil
Anton, Anatole
Aptheker, Bettina
Armitage, Leighton
Aronowitz, Stanley
Austin, Regina
Ayers, Bill
Baraka, Amiri
Barash, David
Bazian, Hatem
Becker, Marc
Beinin, Joel
Bell, Derrick
Berlowitz, Marvin
Berry, Mary Frances
Bérubé, Michael
Brand, Laurie
Brumfiel, Elizabeth
Castellano, Thomas
Chomsky, Noam
Cleaver, Kathleen
Cloud, Dana
Cole, David D.
Cole, Juan
Cooke, Miriam
Coy, Patrick
Dabashi, Hamid
Davis, Angela
Dawes, Gregory
de Genova, Nicholas
Dohrn, Bernadine
Dunkley, Robert
Dyson, Michael Eric
Eckstein, Rick
Ehrlich, Paul R.
Ellis, Mark
Ensalaco, Mark
Esposito, John
Estrada, Larry
Evangelista, Matthew
Falk, Richard
Fayazmanesh, Sasan
Feagin, Joe
Fellman, Gordon
Finkelstein, Norman
Foner, Eric
Foster, John Bellamy
Franklin, H. Bruce
Furr, Grover
Gilbert, Melissa
Gitlin, Todd
Gordon, Lewis
Gutierrez, Jose Angel
Haddad, Yvonne
Haffar, Warren
Hayden, Tom
Higgins, Caroline
Holstun, James
Hooks, Bell
Ihsan, Bagby
Jaggar, Alison
Jameson, Frederic
Jeffries, Leonard
Jensen, Robert
Karenga, Ron (Maulana)
Kirstein, Peter N.
Kosofsky Sedgwick, Eve
Lal, Vinay
Lembcke, Jerry
LeVine, Mark
Marable, Manning
Massad, Joseph
Matsuda, Mari
McChesney, Robert
McCloud, Aminah Beverly
Meranto, Oneida
Navarro, Armando
Navasky, Victor
Parmar, Priya
Perez, Emma
Richards, Sam
Rubin, Gayle
Saitta, Dean
Schell, Orville
Schwartz, Michael
Shortell, Timothy
Targ, Harry
Thomas, Greg
Toton, Suzanne
Trask, Haunani-Kay
Vocino, Michael
Warner, Michael
Williams, Dessima
Wolfe, George
Zinn, Howard

NB. The ordering of these Academics is mine, not Horowitz's.






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David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer and activist. A prominent supporter of Marxism and a member of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz later rejected Leftism and now identifies with the right wing of the political spectrum. He is a founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), a writer for the conservative magazine NewsMax, and the editor of the popular conservative website FrontPageMag.com. He founded the activist group Students for Academic Freedom and is affiliated with Campus Watch, and frequently appears on the Fox News Channel as an analyst.


Early life and career



David Horowitz was born in 1939 to a Jewish family in Forest Hills, New York. His parents, Phil and Blanche Horowitz, were school-teachers in Sunnyside Gardens, in the borough of Queens in New York City. Horowitz attended Columbia University and later the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a master's degree in English literature.



His parents were long-standing members of the Communist Party. While still identifying as a Marxist, Horowitz, along with many other left wing figures of his generation, sought to distance itself from totalitarian regimes such as Soviet Union. Horowitz was employed during the 1960s as a political aide to Bertrand Russell. Horowitz at this time was a close friend and associate of the Marxist historian, Isaac Deutscher. Horowitz wrote a biography of Deutscher in 1971.



After returning to the U.S. in 1968, he authored several books that were influential in New Left critiques of American society and particularly its foreign policy, including The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War. Horowitz was an editor at the influential New Left magazine, Ramparts.



Horowitz was a confidant of Black Panthers leader Huey P. Newton, and provided legal and financial assistance to the black revolutionary organization. He would later cite experiences with his involvement in the Panthers as the primary catalyst for reassessing his views. In December of 1974, his close friend Betty Van Patter, a bookkeeper for the Panthers, was murdered. While the case officially went unsolved, Horowitz has maintained that the Panthers were responsible for her murder, committed in order to silence Van Patter from revealing the organization's financial corruption, and thereafter covered up the killing.



Other events that Horowitz cites as being influential in his political realignment were the impacts of the US loss in the Vietnam War on the peoples of Indochina, and particularly Cambodia, which under the leadership of the Khmer Rouge experienced mass terror and famine, leading to millions of deaths. Horowitz believes that the far left turned a blind eye to such atrocities because the ideological vision of the Communists was one which they shared. The reactions ranged from disinterest to apologia, exemplified by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter's Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, which presented a much more favorable depiction of life under the Khmer Rouge than later came to be accepted.



Along with close associate Peter Collier, Horowitz hosted a 1987 "Second Thoughts Conference" in Washington, D.C., described by left-wing figure Sidney Blumenthal in The Washington Post as his "coming out" as a supporter of the right. His gradual shift to the right has been recounted in a series of memoirs and retrospectives, culminating in Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, published in 1996.


Activism on the right



Growing out of their increasing "second thoughts," Horowitz and Collier committed to a new cause; opposing the baby boomer new left status quo in academia. Peter Collier wrote that, "there was only one antidote for the new orthodoxy: Heterodoxy." In 1992, the same year as the election of President Bill Clinton, Heterodoxy magazine was founded.



He became a staunch opponent of affirmative action policies, as well as reparations for slavery. Horowitz also supported the proactive, interventionist foreign policy associated with the "neoconservatives", a label that Horowitz rejects as a smear. FrontPageMag.com, his right-leaning website, carries editorials from many authors who were and are strongly pro-Israel, anti-Islam, supportive of the war on terror and the war in Iraq. However, Horowitz personally opposed American intervention in the Kosovo War, arguing that it was unnecessary and harmful to US interests.



Viewing the political atmosphere of many universities as intolerant of such ideas, he went so far as to purchase, or attempt to purchase, advertising space in school publications in order to get his views and arguments across. Many of these offers were refused and at some schools papers which carried the ads were confiscated or destroyed by protesting campus groups.



In 2004, Horowitz launched Discover the Networks, a conservative watchdog project that monitors funding for, and various ties among, individuals and organizations supportive of leftist causes. Part of the motivation for Discover the Networks is Horowitz's view that leftist individuals and groups support, whether consciously or not, Islamic terrorism, and thus require ongoing scrutiny. This theme is explored in Horowitz's 2004 book, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left.



An agnostic Jew, Horowitz has rejected the tendency of social conservatives to support laws that discriminate against homosexuals. He criticized the Republican Party for being unwilling to gear itself towards the civil rights of homosexuals, noting that more homosexuals voted for George W. Bush in 2000 than did blacks or Jews. While Horowitz disagrees with gay marriage, he believes homosexuals have a fundamental right to privacy and that the term "homosexual agenda", common among right-wing pundits, is an "intolerant" one.


Academic Bill of Rights



The issue of "political abuse" of the university is currently Horowitz's main focus. In 2004 he, Eli Lehrer and Andrew Jones did a study titled "Political Bias in the Administrations and Faculties of 32 Elite Colleges and Universities." The overall ratio of Democrats to Republicans they were able to identify at the 32 schools was more than 10 to 1 (1,397 Democrats, 134 Republicans, 1891 unidentified). As to administrators, "[i]n the entire Ivy League, we identified only three Republican administrators."



Horowitz's 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, criticizes individual professors for their professorial conduct. Much of his criticism is aimed at those who are critical of the State of Israel. According to Horowitz, these professors engage in indoctrination rather than a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.



Horowitz and others promote his Academic Bill of Rights (ABR), an eight-point manifesto that seeks to eliminate what they see as political bias in university hiring and grading. Horowitz claims that bias in universities amounts to indoctrination, and charges that conservatives and particularly Republicans are "systematically excluded" from faculties, citing statistical studies on faculty party affiliation. Critics of the proposed policy, such as Stanley Fish, have argued that "academic diversity," as Horowitz describes it, is not a legitimate academic value, and that no endorsement of "diversity" can be absolute.



In 2004 a version of the ABR was adopted by the Georgia General Assembly on a 41-5 vote.



In Pennsylvania, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives created a special legislative committee to investigate the state of academic freedom and whether students who hold unpopular views need more protection. In November 2006 it reported that it couldn’t find evidence of problems with students’ rights.


Criticisms questioning Horowitz's 'liberal bias on campuses' evidence



Some stories Horowitz has used as evidence that U.S. colleges and universities are bastions of liberal indoctrination have been disputed. For example, Horowitz told the story of a University of Northern Colorado student who received a failing grade on a final exam for refusing to write an essay arguing that George W. Bush is a war criminal. A spokeswoman for the university said that the test question was not as described by Horowitz and that there were non-political reasons for the grade, which was not an F. Horowitz responded that the student had indeed received an "F" on the exam but had appealed her grade on the course and been awarded a "B", and that the questions as supplied by UNC were evidence of indoctrination, not education, as claimed.



Horowitz also claimed that a Pennsylvania State University biology professor showed his students the film Fahrenheit 9/11 just before the 2004 election in an attempt to influence their votes. Horowitz later acknowledged that he had not been able to confirm this story.



Finally, Horowitz has referred to the case of a student named Ahmad al-Qloushi, whose professor allegedly responded to an "irrational[ly]" "pro-American" essay by failing him and threatening to visit the Dean of International Admissions (who had the power to take away student visas) to make sure he received regular psychological treatment. His professor admits suggesting al-Qloushi visit a counselor, but for anxiety resulting from events that had happened to al-Qloushi in Kuwait ten years before rather than for his politics, and denies mentioning the Dean.



Horowitz has also come under fire for material in his books, particularly The Professors. For example, Media Matters for America claims that only 48 of the 100 (not 101) professors listed were criticized for in-class behavior and activities, despite Horowitz's claim that he makes "a very clear distinction between what's done in the classroom" and "what professors say as citizens." The group Free Exchange on Campus issued a 50-page report in May of 2006 in which they take issue with many of Horowitz's assertions in the book and describe what they see as factual errors, unsubstantiated assertions, and quotations which appear to be either misquoted or taken out of context.



In response to Horowitz's criticisms of professors at the University of Arizona the campus newspaper and student government had varying opinions. Many on campus saw validity in the claims made by Horowitz and after a few weeks of discussion the student body Senate passed a resolution supporting the free exchange of ideas in academia. While the resolution came short of all out support for Horowitz, the resolution did support many similar issues hailed by Horowitz.



Jacob Laksin has since issued a lengthy, three-part response to this report on FrontPageMag.com, which, among other things, claims that Free Exchange on Campus misrepresents itself as being "disinterested observers". According to Laskin, "The groups comprising the Free Exchange coalition are chiefly distinguished by their partisan commitment to left-wing political causes and their support for the politicized and one-sided academic status quo." Laskin cites member organizations, Campus Progress (which Laskin claims is funded by George Soros), the American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way as examples. Laskin also claims the report "misrepresents and distorts the arguments of The Professors in order to attack the book and its author, and is not above fabricating evidence to make its case," and that while the report does identify some errors in Horowitz's book, they are trivial and "in no way affect the substantive arguments of the book or the conclusions drawn in the individual profiles of the professors included."


Other Criticism


Allegations of Bigotry



Chip Berlet, writing for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), identified Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture as one of 17 "right-wing foundations and think tanks support[ing] efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable." Berlet 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." Responding with an open letter to Morris Dees, president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that the slaves transported to America were bought from African and Arab slavers was a response to demands that only whites pay blacks reparations, not to hold Africans and Arabs solely responsible for slavery, and that the statement that he had denied lingering racism was "a calculated and carefully constructed lie." The letter said that Berlet's work was "so tendentious, so filled with transparent misrepresentations and smears that if you continue to post the report you will create for your Southern Poverty Law Center a well-earned reputation as a hate group itself." The SPLC refused, and subsequent critical pieces on Berlet and the SPLC have been featured on Horowitz's website and personal blog.



Tim Wise, self-described "anti-racist essayist, lecturer and activist" criticized Horowitz in the left-wing publication, Znet for associating with alleged racists, pointing to his acceptance of funding from the Bradley Foundation, which supported the publication of Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book), as well for running a modified piece by white nationalist Jared Taylor on the media treatment of black-on-white murders. When Horowitz ran the piece, he admitted that the decision to do so would be controversial, but denied that Taylor was a racist, instead arguing that his "racialism" was an example of identity politics precipitated by an intellectual surrender to multiculturalism; Horowitz denied that he and his publication share the agendas of Taylor.


Books and Other Publications



1962: Student: The Political Activities of the Berkeley Students
1969: Corporations and the Cold War (Studies in Imperialism and the Cold War) (editor) (New York: Monthly Review)
1969: Sinews of Empire Ramparts, October 1969, pp. 32-42
1970: Empire and Revolution: A Radical Interpretation of Contemporary History
1970: Corporations and the Cold War, edited, and with introduction
1971: The Free World Colossus: A Critique of American Foreign Policy in the Cold War
1989: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s by Peter Collier, David Horowitz
The Art of Political War and Other Radical Pursuits
How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive Ideas
1998: Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey
2002: Uncivil Wars: The Controversy over Reparations for Slavery
Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes
The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future
2003: Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey
2004: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
2004: The Anti-Chomsky Reader with Peter Collier
2005: The End Of Time
2006: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
2007: Indoctrination U:The Left's War Against Academic Freedom


Histories co-authored with Peter Collier



1976: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
1985: The Kennedys: An American Drama
1987: The Fords: An American Epic
1994: The Roosevelts: An American Saga





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This blog was inspired by David Horowitz's 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. The 101 professors, according to Horowitz, are the most anti-American and most left-wing of the many anti-American and left-wing college professors in America.

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About The Professors

In 2006, the conservative American scholar, David Horowitz, published a book called, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. In it, he lists the worst anti-American and left-wing of the many college professors in the USA. This blog present information and news about these professors.

The 100 Professors

[NB: The following list is in alphabetical order.]

001. Dr. Sami Amin Al-Arian

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