Open question: Is there any enemy nation or power, from Communist China to Qatar, that isn’t buying up academia?
It’s one thing when wealthy enemy nations like China and Qatar do it, but the whole thing reaches a new level of obscene absurdity when it’s a terrorist entity that we fund with our tax dollars that’s doing it.
It’s not often that I’m surprised, but Mitchell Bard’s research in The Spectator turned up something I didn’t even imagine existed.
A new study that I compiled for the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise found that U.S. institutions received more than $10 billion in foreign gifts from Arab sources from 1981 to October 2020. While it is not surprising the wealthy Gulf countries were responsible for the lion’s share, it was startling to see the non-existent “State of Palestine” made nine gifts worth $4.5 million in the last four years. While the amount may sound relatively trivial, the impact can be exponential.
The PLO and its defenders keep claiming that they’re struggling with a state of miserable poverty. Meanwhile they’re funding chairs at American universities.
The “State of Palestine” also made gifts in 2017, 2018, and 2019 to Harvard of $275,000, $775,000, and $525,000, respectively. The university did not report the purpose and Harvard would not provide an explanation when asked. Because it fell below the $250,000 threshold required for reporting foreign gifts to the DoE, Harvard did not have to disclose a 2011 gift of $150,000 from the Palestinian Monetary Authority to establish an annual graduate public service fellowship to support a student from the “occupied Palestinian territories” for three years.
Why is the PLO putting more of its money on the table? Part of the answer may be that the Gulf Arabs may be less prone to representing its agendas they pivot to resisting Iran.
It might also want more control over the anti-Israel movement on campuses.
US campuses have a sizable pro-PFLP presence and pro-Hamas presence via Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Association. And while some of these movements had their roots in GUPS or the General Union of Palestinian Students, the PLO’s direct control is very limited. And this is its bid to influence campuses more directly.
Forcing colleges to address their foreign funding sources was another important Trump administration initiative. And the more we learn about the money that colleges are getting from China and Qatar, and now Islamic terrorists, the worse their treason becomes.
mortimer says
This is important research. It’s strictly a case of ‘INFLUENCE PEDDLING’. By paying for universities, foreign powers are trying to influence what is taught … in their favor. They are also trying to SILENCE any teacher who teaches sensitive subjects, such as history or political science whenever the teachers treads on the toes of the dictators or teaches what they do not want anyone to know … such as their misogyny, genocides, ethnic cleansing, slave labor or war-mongering.
Foreign powers like the Arabian states want to promote their backward 7th century Death Cult to Western minds in the friendliest way … Islam with a happy face on it.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
Infidel says
Truth be told, more Americans than ever realize what a scam education is, which is why most colleges and universities would go belly up if F1 visas were cut.
Which is precisely why it needs to happen. And I say it as someone who was here on an F1 from 1992-94
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
Today, unless you are studying a STEM – type major at college, you are literally throwing your money away.
On top of that, a typical liberal arts student will end up becoming brainwashed by the far Left.
Sad…
Infidel says
Very true!
somehistory says
Not only do they want the anti-Jew hatred spread on colleges campuses, they want islam taught by more moslim “scholars” on those same campuses and more special privileges for the moslim students.
They want free speech to be limited by what they say “hurts their feelings” and is part of the fake “phobia” they propagate.
It’s insane that the so-called palis are “starving” and are greedy for the money Mr. Trump stopped from being sent to them from the U.S….though they still get it from other places…and yet, send so much for propaganda back to the U.S. to pressure schools to accept islam without question or criticism.
gravenimage says
Taxpayer-Funded Islamic Terrorists Sent Millions to US Colleges
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Yes–Jihad terrorists have been influencing our institues of higher learning for decades now–and it shows.
spiro says
For the love of money they sold their
Souls