"[3] APT was founded by Charles Jacobs, Boston College political science professor Dennis Hale, and Egyptian exile and the Quranists Muslim Ahmed Subhy Mansour.
[10] It suggests that university professors take funding from anti-Zionist donors out of cynicism rather than ideology, which influences their perspective on Israel in class.
In a 2009 op-ed, the APT's Hale and Jacobs wrote that the new Islamic Center was "paid for largely by the Saudis, and run by what federal authorities describe as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood."
[14] Following the April 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon, Jacobs renewed his argument that the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (where the suspects had once worshipped) and its affiliated mosques in Cambridge and Roxbury are tied to extremists, claiming in a USA Today opinion article that people have been radicalized there from their curriculum,[13] although the mosque has condemned the bombing and asked one of the suspects to stop attending due to openly challenging and interrupting the Friday prayer service.
"[16] In a 2015 article in the New York Times, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz labeled APT's claims about the Muslim community "incredibly racist and unfair.
Charles Jacobs was a main figure in the CBS article "The Great Islamophobic Crusade,"[20] while Ahmed Subhy Mansour is infamous within the Muslim community for having supported former Congressman Tom Tancredo's proposal for bombing Mecca.