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went unreported. The group’s report found that more
than 200 top American colleges and universities received $13 billion in reported contributions, many from authoritarian regimes. For all insti- tutions, $4.7 billion of total funding between 2014 and 2019 was previously undisclosed. Department of Education records
indicate that Qatar, China, and Saudi Arabia were among the biggest donors to top-tier schools, including Carn- egie Mellon, $1.5 billion, Cornell $1.3 billion, Harvard $894 million, MIT $859 million, and Texas A&M, which received just over half a billion dollars. One of NCRI’s key findings stated
that there was a strong correlation between the number of antisemitic incidents reported on a campus and whether that school accepted funding from Middle Eastern donors. The report noted that from 2015-
2020, schools that accepted foreign funding from Middle Eastern regimes reported 300% more antisemitic events than schools that did not accept the outside funds. A May 2023 report titled “Arab
Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients, and Impact,” penned by Mitchell Bard of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enter- prise, similarly detailed how Arab states have “quietly made contribu- tions to American universities to cre-
slipping out frequently. It first appeared on the
University of California’s Berkeley campus in 2001. By 2006 it was on campuses across the country, under the auspices of American Muslims for Palestine. It grew and burrowed in to be ready for a political moment like this. Colleges are bound by Title
VI of the Civil Rights Act that prohibits discrimination based
‘GIFTS’ FOR AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES SINCE 2012:
Qatar China
Saudi Arabia UAE
Kuwait Russia Turkey Iraq
Lebanon Pakistan
Venezuela Syria
Palestinian Authority SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education
$3,281,809,223 $1,733,394,910 $1,454,621,857 $635,818,317 $338,726,100 $141,080,439 $81,509,310 $45,531,664 $21,363,783 $6,474,520 $4,012,132 $1,364,702 $1,050,000
ate centers and chairs to propagate their views” dating back as early as the 1950s. The report stated that three coun-
tries contribute 79% of all Arab funding. Qatar is the leading financial source
of funds with 1,056 donations worth $5.1 billion. Saudi Arabia has donated more often with 5,735 donations worth $2.9 billion. The report linked the UAE to 1,159 donations worth $1.3 billion. While many of the donations were
sent to elite universities, the report found a total of 273 institutes received money from Arab nations. Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ack-
man, a major critic of how his alma mater Harvard University handled
on ethnicity or religion. That means they must
limit threatening, antisemitic protesting. That would include shouts — like those heard at Columbia — of “Go back to Poland,” “Burn Tel Aviv,” and those wishing more Oct. 7ths on Jewish students. Many of those leading
the protests are not American students. They’re from the Middle East, here on
antisemitism on campus after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, has taken issue with the outside money funnel- ing into American schools. “Foreign governments are not
allowed to own our radio and TV sta- tions for fear they might be used for anti-American propaganda and influ- ence,” the Pershing Square Capital CEO posted on social media platform X. He noted that Congress banned
TikTok for the “same reason” and questions why the U.S. is allowing “foreign governments to give money to our universities, funds that are used to set up Middle Eastern, Asian stud- ies, and other programs which can be designed to fit the desired narratives of the donors.” “Our universities have a profound
impact on our younger generation at a time when they are particularly vul- nerable to being manipulated, that is, away from home for the first time, and young and naïve,” he continued. “Notably, these foreign govern-
ments concentrate their ‘gifts’ to our most elite institutions where they can influence our next generation of lead- ers — judges, politicians, members of the media, and more.” As antisemitic, anti-Israel agi-
tators have taken over campus in protests that have turned violent, he said accepting foreign money “seems to have been a bad strategy for America.”
student visas. But there are plenty of
American students and faculty on board with the rabid anti- Israel politics — a testament to the fact that Gen Z has been educated, for two decades, to look at Jews as white oppressors. In the hierarchies of critical
race theory, which has infused all teaching of history for this generation, whites are oppressors and people of color
are victims. Jews, whose actual history
includes vast stretches of oppression in European and Middle Eastern countries, and whose claim to being the indigenous people of the land of Israel goes back 3,000 years, are considered “white” and held to be “settler colonialists” in Israel, with the Palestinian Arabs as the victims.
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