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During Wilders' visit to Los Angeles, the David Horowitz Freedom Center organized an event at which Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed were auctioned but Horowitz claimed he did not remember how much money this event raised or what happened to the proceeds. Reuters reported that while former officials from Wilders' [[Freedom Party]] (known as PVV) - which is not publically funded and therefore is able to operate less transparently than other Dutch parties - have said it relies almost entirely on foreign donations, both Horowitz and Pipes deny funding political activities in the Netherlands. The non-profit, tax exempt organisations they run are, under U.S. tax laws, forbidden from giving direct financial backing to any political candidate or party but may sponsor policy debates.<ref name="ReutersWilders"/>
 
During Wilders' visit to Los Angeles, the David Horowitz Freedom Center organized an event at which Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed were auctioned but Horowitz claimed he did not remember how much money this event raised or what happened to the proceeds. Reuters reported that while former officials from Wilders' [[Freedom Party]] (known as PVV) - which is not publically funded and therefore is able to operate less transparently than other Dutch parties - have said it relies almost entirely on foreign donations, both Horowitz and Pipes deny funding political activities in the Netherlands. The non-profit, tax exempt organisations they run are, under U.S. tax laws, forbidden from giving direct financial backing to any political candidate or party but may sponsor policy debates.<ref name="ReutersWilders"/>
  
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In September 2014 however a Dutch interior ministry disclosure revealed that Wilders’ PVV party had received €18,110 ($20,000) from the centre on 28 March 2014. This was the result of a new law requiring parties to publish grants above 4500 euros. <ref> PVV disclosure to the Dutch interior minister dated 28 May 2015 </ref>The PVV had previously resisted such disclosure.
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In September 2015 however a Dutch interior ministry disclosure revealed that Wilders’ PVV party had received €18,110 ($20,000) from the centre on 28 March 2014. This was the result of a new law requiring parties to publish grants above 4500 euros. <ref> PVV disclosure to the Dutch interior minister dated 28 May 2015 </ref>The PVV had previously resisted such disclosure.
  
 
==Staff==
 
==Staff==

Revision as of 05:02, 12 November 2015

Logo circa 2015

The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in 1988 as the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC). The Center adopted its current name in 2006.[1]

David Horowitz is its chief executive and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch is listed as a member of staff.

Funding

Top donors calculated by IRS filings to 2013 included:

[2]

2012

2013

Funding counterjihad activists

Politico reported in September 2010 that the Center was funding Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch website:

Though it was not listed on the public tax reports filed by Horowitz’s Freedom Center, POLITICO has confirmed that the lion’s share of the $920,000 it provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from [Joyce] Chernick, whose husband, Aubrey Chernick, has a net worth of $750 million, as a result of his 2004 sale to IBM of a software company he created, and a security consulting firm he now owns.[7]

The US Conservative Transparency database shows that the Horowitz Freedom Center made three donations between 2010 and 2012 to counterjihad writer and activist Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch:

-$45,500 in 2012
-$95,000 in 2011
-$30,000 in 2010

[8]

Geert Wilders

In 2012 it emerged that David Horowitz (and Daniel Pipes via the Middle East Forum's Legal Project) had both given money to Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders.[9] While declining to specify amounts, according to Reuters, Horowitz said he had paid Wilders "a good fee" for making two speeches, one in Los Angeles and one at Temple University in Philadelphia. He also paid "a special security fee of about $1,500 to the Philadelphia police department" for security costs during student protests generated by the event and for overnight accommodation for four or five Dutch government bodyguards accompanying Wilders on a 2009 US trip.[9]

During Wilders' visit to Los Angeles, the David Horowitz Freedom Center organized an event at which Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed were auctioned but Horowitz claimed he did not remember how much money this event raised or what happened to the proceeds. Reuters reported that while former officials from Wilders' Freedom Party (known as PVV) - which is not publically funded and therefore is able to operate less transparently than other Dutch parties - have said it relies almost entirely on foreign donations, both Horowitz and Pipes deny funding political activities in the Netherlands. The non-profit, tax exempt organisations they run are, under U.S. tax laws, forbidden from giving direct financial backing to any political candidate or party but may sponsor policy debates.[9]

In September 2015 however a Dutch interior ministry disclosure revealed that Wilders’ PVV party had received €18,110 ($20,000) from the centre on 28 March 2014. This was the result of a new law requiring parties to publish grants above 4500 euros. [10]The PVV had previously resisted such disclosure.

Staff

Affiliations

Articles

Center announcements

Contact information

David Horowitz Freedom Center
P.O. Box 361269
Los Angeles, CA 90036-9828
Phone: (818) 849-3470
E-mail: info AT horowitzfreedomcenter.org
Web: http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org

External resources

Notes

  1. ↑ About the Center, David Horowitz Freedom Center, accessed 21 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Top Supporters of David Horowitz Freedom Center, accessed 10 June 2015
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 2 March 2015
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency Database, accessed 10 June 2015
  5. ↑ David Horowitz Freedom Center, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 3 March 2015
  6. ↑ Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Conservative Transparency database, search date 4 May 2015
  7. ↑ Kenneth P. Vogel and Giovanni Russonello, Latest mosque issue: The money trail, Politico, 4 September 2010.
  8. ↑ David Horowitz Freedom Center, Grants, Conservative Transparency database, accessed 3 March 2015
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Anthony Deutsch and Mark Hosenball, Exclusive: U.S. groups helped fund Dutch anti-Islam politician Wilders, Reuters, 10 September 2012
  10. ↑ PVV disclosure to the Dutch interior minister dated 28 May 2015
  11. ↑ Kiersten Marek, Meet the Funders Gunning to Kill Obamacare, Inside Philanthropy, 9 February 2015, accessed 27 April 2015
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