Campus antisemitism: Follow the money
May 1, 2024
By: Joseph Puder
Virtually all Ivy League universities in the USA have Arab-funded academic chairs, many of them directed and taught by radical Arab Muslims whose methodology is to indoctrinate rather than teach American students.
Countries like Qatar, a chief funder of Hamas in Gaza and a proud subscriber to the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology, pour billions of dollars, along with anti-Israel and anti-American propaganda, into the coffers of American and European universities.
The Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), USA, is dominated by pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel professors, and most of its board membership is made up of Arab Middle Easterners and Turks. Not a single Israeli is on the board.
Since the 9/11 attacks on America, Qatar has become the largest foreign donor to American academia. American universities, especially Ivy League schools, have largely refrained from revealing the sources of their funding, but a study by the Institute for Global Anti-Semitism Studies and Policy (ISGAP) found a direct link between the amount of donations and the presence of pro-Palestinian groups on campuses.
In November 2023, ISGAP and the National Council of Resistance of Iran published a study entitled “The Corruption of the American Mind.” The study revealed that $13 billion in undisclosed foreign funding had come from Qatar and other authoritarian countries to over 100 American universities, resulting in a 300% increase in antisemitism on campuses.
New research reveals Qataris funneling billions of dollars into Cornell University in unreported funds. The findings show that Qatar has donated $1.95 billion directly to Cornell University for its campus at Doha’s Education City and $7.9 billion to Sidra Hospital in Doha, which is operated by Cornell. According to the Financial Times, since 1986, Qatar has contributed $5.1 billion to American universities.
It is clear that Qatar, a radical Islamist state, which President Biden has embraced, has been a major (biased) mediator in the efforts to release the Israeli hostages from Hamas’s captivity. Immediately following the Hamas invasion of Israel and the murder of 1,200 Israelis and kidnapping of 250 others, the Qatari government released a statement that accused Israel of “being solely responsible for the ongoing escalation,” thus justifying the Hamas terror onslaught. Doha has also been hosting the leaders of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashal.
In 2017, the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, began an embargo against Qatar, ostensibly due to its support of terrorist groups and its close relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime of Erdoğan’s Turkey. Nevertheless, Joe Biden designated Qatar as a major non-NATO ally. To rebuild its image, Qatar spent a fortune on U.S. lobbyists.