This has not just turned America’s universities into bastions of Jew-hatred and support for Hamas and other jihad groups. It has also made them blind to the threat of jihad in general, and legitimized the spurious concept of “Islamophobia,” to the degree that young people are today far more concerned about “Islamophobia,” which is a manipulative propaganda fiction, than about jihad, which is all too real.
“Hamas Patron Qatar Has Spent $6 Billion Lobbying the U.S. Government and Funding Universities,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 9, 2024:
Qatar, the oil-rich Middle Eastern nation that provides shelter and cash to the Hamas terror group’s top leaders, has spent nearly $6 billion since 2007 lobbying the American government and funneling cash to the United States’ top universities, funding that is generating scrutiny in Congress.
With Qatar emerging as a central mediator in the United States’ attempts to reach a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, Doha’s decades-long influence peddling operation in America is raising concerns about the country’s ties to the Iran-backed terror group.
Qatar has given or contracted more than $5.6 billion to 61 American schools since 2007, including Ivy Leagues such as Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and Stanford University, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The country has also doled out more than $243 million on lobbying efforts in the United States since 2015, with more than $16 million spent in 2023 alone.
The money, experts and lawmakers say, has enabled Qatar to have outsized influence in American politics and academia, efforts they say have mainstreamed anti-Israel propaganda and silenced criticism about Doha’s longstanding ties to Hamas, the Iranian regime, and other terror groups. Hamas’s “three top leaders alone are worth a staggering total of $11 billion and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar,” according to the New York Post.
The vast funding operation has generated congressional interest in the past and is fueling calls for an investigation by members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), Congress’s largest GOP caucus, according to lawmakers and senior GOP aides who spoke to the Free Beacon. The RSC, one senior staffer said, is currently pressuring the relevant House oversight committees to investigate Qatar’s lobbying efforts and funding to schools….
From November 2007 to October 2023, Qatar made 1,116 donations to American universities totaling $5,673,091,815, records show. This has led to accusations that Doha is using its influence with the country’s top schools to mainstream propaganda that portrays Israel in a negative light.
Through the Qatar Foundation, a state-controlled entity tasked with promoting the country’s interests, the nation has prioritized educational initiatives that employ anti-Israel materials, according to watchdog groups….
SC says
One simple question. If tge universities get that much from Qatar why are they charing tuition?
James Lincoln says
Lots of grifters, SC.
Walter Sieruk says
Qatar supporting that Muslim terrorist organizations and it doesn’t stop with that insidious evil .Qatar has, the stealth jihad , has infiltrated and influenced many universities and colleges across the United States so now those “institutions of higher education” have indoctrinated many young impressionable students to be very anti-Jewish , ant-Israel and even pro- Hamas.
Jeeves says
Wow, that’s what you call buying influence. I wonder if one can still see a lot of kippa on campus.
OLD GUY says
Colleges and Universities should be required to make public the foreign and domestic contributions to their endowment funds and institutions yearly. It appears we have sold our higher education system to foreign governments, dam I wonder what effect that will have?
Maybe we should make it illegal to accept funds from foreign countries, and the selling of American land and private and commercial property to foreigners and foreign governments. As it stands no need to attack America you can simply walk across our borders and buy the place.
Memi says
Qatar’s propaganda news machine Al-Jazeera “News” is also a promoter and supporter of Hamas and Hiznollah. Turkey has also funded, together with Doha, Hamas terrorist “leaders” who are now living with their families in Istanbul and Doha and given Turkish passports and billion-dollar businesses in both terrorist Islamofascist countries! But you wouldn’t know it reading the New York Times. It’s a good thing we have JihadWatch to find out the real news!
James Lincoln says
Since this immense funding of US colleges by Qatar has been going on for years, they must feel that they are getting their money’s worth.
ed says
What is disgraceful is they took it
Arnold Pinsley says
I returned to US in Nov 1986 and my father regaled me with the news that the Saudis had provided a small motel for the Harvard Business School – he was shocked that I didn[‘t find this tidbit of information the greatest thing since sliced bread. I told him that the Saudis were buying influence and it would not be good for the university.
Now, it has all come out in the wash and Harvard along with a great many other prestigious universities are having their funding from oreign governments investigated – it is about time!