Somehow I did not hear about the death of David Horowitz on April 29 of this year

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David Horowitz, a former ‘60s radical turned right-wing firebrand who decried what he called the “the efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values,” died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 86.

His death was announced by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the think tank he founded with Peter Collier in 1988.

A self-described agnostic Jew who wrote in 2016 that he had never been to Israel, he nonetheless became one of the fiercest critics of Democrats he claimed “empowered” Israel’s enemies, including Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, ISIS and Hamas.

In campaigning against Islamism after 9/11, he became a savage and what many said was a bigoted critic of Islam itself, writing once that “to call Islam a peaceful religion is laughable” and, in another instance, that Islam is “a problematic religion and source of violence.” The Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League both termed him “anti-Muslim.”

Having become an early supporter of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency, he lambasted fellow conservatives who didn’t support the then-developer and TV star’s candidacy. In a controversial 2016 essay in the hardline right-wing Breitbart News, he accused the conservative Jewish writer William Kristol and other “Never Trumpers” of trying “to weaken the only party that stands between the Jews and their annihilation, and between America and the forces intent on destroying her.”

In recent years he was a fierce defender of some of the first Trump administration’s most contentious stances, including its travel ban on a group of mostly Muslim countries, and its policy of separating undocumented immigrant children from their parents at the border. Stephen Miller, the Jewish senior Trump adviser thought to be an architect of those policies, considers himself one of Horowitz’s proteges.

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