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Horowitz started a series of satirical Fox News.com videos called "Ami on the Street". Horowitz has covered topics such as Iran and their pursuit of nuclear weapons, Ferguson, the alleged IRS scandal, The Affordable Care Act and Taxes. He received a lot of attention and millions of views from his video where he waved an ISIS flag and then an Israeli flag on the Berkeley campus.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Porter|title=See US Students' Shocking Reaction as Satirist Waves Isis Then Israeli Flags on Berkeley Campus|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/see-us-students-shocking-reaction-satirist-waves-isis-then-israeli-flags-berkeley-campus-1475936|website=International Business Times|publisher=IBTimes Co., Ltd|accessdate=February 20, 2017|date=November 21, 2014}}</ref> |
Horowitz started a series of satirical Fox News.com videos called "Ami on the Street". Horowitz has covered topics such as Iran and their pursuit of nuclear weapons, Ferguson, the alleged IRS scandal, The Affordable Care Act and Taxes. He received a lot of attention and millions of views from his video where he waved an ISIS flag and then an Israeli flag on the Berkeley campus.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Porter|title=See US Students' Shocking Reaction as Satirist Waves Isis Then Israeli Flags on Berkeley Campus|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/see-us-students-shocking-reaction-satirist-waves-isis-then-israeli-flags-berkeley-campus-1475936|website=International Business Times|publisher=IBTimes Co., Ltd|accessdate=February 20, 2017|date=November 21, 2014}}</ref> |
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In 2017, President [[Donald Trump]] made a statement about an incident 'last night in Sweden' that never happened, based on an interview with Ami Horowitz on Fox News that he had seen broadcast the previous evening.<ref name=":0" /> In that interview, Horowitz made numerous false assertions about Sweden.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In connection with this interview Fox News asserted a number of 160,000 asylum seekers in Sweden for 2016 though which were down to 29,000 in 2016 after 163,000 in 2015.<ref name=":0" /> Horowitz had previously in December 2016 said that he was "punched, kicked and choked" by Arabic-speaking men while filming a documentary in [[Husby, Stockholm]]<ref name="jtaamericanjewish">{{cite news|url=http://www.jta.org/2016/12/16/news-opinion/world/american-jewish-filmmaker-says-he-was-attacked-by-arabic-speakers-in-stockholm?utm_content=buffere2077&utm_medium=social&utm_source=jtafacebook&utm_campaign=social|title=American Jewish filmmaker says he was attacked by Arabic speakers in Stockholm|date=December 16, 2016|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|accessdate=December 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://video.foxnews.com/v/5248024459001/?#sp=show-clips Fox News: "Horowitz: Sweden now rape capital amidst Muslim immigration" by Ami Horowitz] December 14, 2016 |
In 2017, President [[Donald Trump]] made a statement about an incident 'last night in Sweden' that never happened, based on an interview with Ami Horowitz on Fox News that he had seen broadcast the previous evening.<ref name=":0" /> In that interview, Horowitz made numerous false assertions about Sweden.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In connection with this interview Fox News asserted a number of 160,000 asylum seekers in Sweden for 2016 though which were down to 29,000 in 2016 after 163,000 in 2015.<ref name=":0" /> Horowitz had previously in December 2016 said that he was "punched, kicked and choked" by Arabic-speaking men while filming a documentary in [[Husby, Stockholm]].<ref name="jtaamericanjewish">{{cite news|url=http://www.jta.org/2016/12/16/news-opinion/world/american-jewish-filmmaker-says-he-was-attacked-by-arabic-speakers-in-stockholm?utm_content=buffere2077&utm_medium=social&utm_source=jtafacebook&utm_campaign=social|title=American Jewish filmmaker says he was attacked by Arabic speakers in Stockholm|date=December 16, 2016|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|accessdate=December 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://video.foxnews.com/v/5248024459001/?#sp=show-clips Fox News: "Horowitz: Sweden now rape capital amidst Muslim immigration" by Ami Horowitz] December 14, 2016</ref> |
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| Education | University of Southern California(BA) |
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Ami Horowitz is an American media personality[citation needed] who is co-producer, co-director, co-writer, and star of the 2012 documentary U.N. Me, a critical examination of the United Nations. As of 2016, he lives in New York City.[1]
Horowitz came to prominence in February 2017 when President Donald Trump implied on the basis of a Horowitz interview on Fox News that there had been an increase of violence in Sweden committed by refugees on 17 February 2017.[2] In that Fox News interview, Horowitz made numerous assertions about Sweden.[2][3]
Early life and education
A native of Los Angeles, Horowitz graduated from the University of Southern California with majors in political science and philosophy.[4]
Horowitz's mother is from Israel.[5] He is Jewish, and spent a year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
Career
After graduating from USC, Horowitz managed a Democratic candidate's unsuccessful campaign for state comptroller of Maryland. Then, taking the candidate's advice to "make money and go into politics later," he went into investment banking, and spent sixteen years in that field. During that period, he worked at Lehman Brothers.[4][5][6] Asked by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN about his political views, Horowitz described himself as "right-of-center" but "not reflexively" so.[6]
UN Me
Horowitz's film UN Me, released in theaters in 2012 after several years of screenings at festivals, was produced, directed, and written by Horowitz and Matthew Groff.[7]
Showdown Wisconsin
In 2012, Horowitz began screening a new documentary entitled Showdown Wisconsin, about the effort to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.[8]
Fox News
Horowitz started a series of satirical Fox News.com videos called "Ami on the Street". Horowitz has covered topics such as Iran and their pursuit of nuclear weapons, Ferguson, the alleged IRS scandal, The Affordable Care Act and Taxes. He received a lot of attention and millions of views from his video where he waved an ISIS flag and then an Israeli flag on the Berkeley campus.[9]
In 2017, President Donald Trump made a statement about an incident 'last night in Sweden' that never happened, based on an interview with Ami Horowitz on Fox News that he had seen broadcast the previous evening.[2] In that interview, Horowitz made numerous false assertions about Sweden.[2][3] In connection with this interview Fox News asserted a number of 160,000 asylum seekers in Sweden for 2016 though which were down to 29,000 in 2016 after 163,000 in 2015.[2] Horowitz had previously in December 2016 said that he was "punched, kicked and choked" by Arabic-speaking men while filming a documentary in Husby, Stockholm.[10][11]
References
- ^ "Ami Horowitz". LinkedIn.
- ^ a b c d e Chan, Sewell (February 19, 2017). "'Last Night in Sweden'? Trump's Remark Baffles a Nation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
- ^ a b "After Trump's 'Last night in Sweden': Here are the errors in Fox News' report on Swedish immigration". Aftonbladet. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ^ a b Neumaier, Joe (June 4, 2012). "Ami Horowitz returns to political roots in new documentary 'U.N. Me'". New York Daily News.
- ^ a b Jenkins, Mark (May 31, 2012). "Filmmaker Ami Horowitz's U.N. mission: Making mirth of a mess". Washington Post.
- ^ a b "Ami Horowitz". Q&A.org: C-SPAN. September 2, 2012.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis. "Review: "U.N. Me"". Variety.
- ^ Santarelli, Christopher (May 7, 2012). "SNEAK PEEK: FILMMAKER AMI HOROWITZ GOES SHIRTLESS, DANCES IN NEW GBTV DOCUMENTARY 'SHOWDOWN WISCONSIN'". The Blaze.
- ^ Porter (November 21, 2014). "See US Students' Shocking Reaction as Satirist Waves Isis Then Israeli Flags on Berkeley Campus". International Business Times. IBTimes Co., Ltd. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ^ "American Jewish filmmaker says he was attacked by Arabic speakers in Stockholm". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. December 16, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2016.
- ^ Fox News: "Horowitz: Sweden now rape capital amidst Muslim immigration" by Ami Horowitz December 14, 2016