In May 2008, Horowitz, speaking at UCSB, said that MSA supports "a second Holocaust of the Jews". The MSA responded that they were a peaceful organization and not a political group. The MSA's faculty adviser said the group had "been involved in interfaith activities with Jewish student groups, and they've been involved in charity work for national disaster relief." Horowitz ran the ad in "The GW Hatchet", the student newspaper of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Jake Sherman, the "Hatchet"'s editor-in-chief, said claims the MSA was radical were "ludicrous".