international christianity issues ICC President Jeff King said on Monday that the proliferation of pro-Hamas rallies on American campuses was due to “massive and hidden illicit funding from the Qatari and Saudi governments to American Ivy League schools.” He warned that this was because the government was pouring money into it.
king In a statement emailed to the press, he said Ivy League university presidents are strangely unable to explain why their once-safe schools suddenly became boiling cauldrons of anti-Semitic hatred. Although the administration seems to be having a hard time clarifying the reasons for this, he said that it is not difficult to explain. to parliament.
“The answer is simple: what is taught is bought,” he insisted.
Mr. King pointed to report Published by Gatestone Institute called at the beginning of 2024 A dark money nightmare: How Qatar bought the Ivy League. Meanwhile, the report cited data compiled by the Institute for Global Anti-Semitism Policy (ISGAP) and the Department of Education under the Trump administration, which was serious about examining foreign influence in American higher education.
ISGAP noted that at least 100 U.S. universities are “illegally concealing information about approximately $13 billion in undocumented donations from foreign governments, many of them authoritarian.”
Universities that secretly accepted foreign funding tended to have higher levels of “speech intolerance” and anti-Semitism, and the right of pro-Hamas students to taunt and block Jewish students. It has created a culture of censorship where it is easy to believe that there is an obligation to do so. From attending classes.
Qatar launders money through a nonprofit called the Qatar Education, Science and Community Development Foundation, making it especially easy for universities to accept large sums of money that go unreported. Founded nearly 30 years ago by the emir of Qatar, the “non-profit” organization is strictly “private,” allowing its donations to escape much of the scrutiny of funds sent directly from foreign governments.
As of 2023, Qatar has donated more funds to American universities than any other country in the world, and Qatar hosts leaders of the brutal terrorist organization Hamas in luxurious accommodations in October It protects them from the consequences of acts such as the atrocities committed against Israeli civilians on the 7th. .
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Qatar also fed and protected the Muslim Brotherhood and its numerous Islamist factions. diplomatic dispute Gulf states allied with the United States because the Muslim Brotherhood sought to weaken their governments.
ISGAP noted that even with full disclosure, the amount of money Qatar has injected into U.S. universities is not an accurate depiction of Qatar’s influence. That’s because the money is concentrated “within a limited number of elite U.S. universities to maximize influence.” This donation strategy suggests a strategy to “promote Qatar’s national interests” rather than “pure philanthropy.”
another report A study on Qatar’s “terror tuition” published by Calcalist in October 2023 found that some of Qatar’s biggest recipients of billions of dollars It turned out that it was also a campus where – Funded pro-Palestinian organizations. Some of these groups had been organizing pro-Hamas “Days of Anger” even before Israel launched its military response to the October 7 attack.
“We should not be surprised to see students at many universities expressing support for Islamic extremist movements like Hamas. Follow the Money. Christians believe that these groups are anti-Semitic. ICC’s Jeff King said:
of jerusalem post office took similar opinion Qatar’s influence on campus protests in April:
The ignominious success of the vile protests against Israel and in support of Hamas on US campuses stems from the fact that they are never spontaneous. They are meticulously organized and well-funded. To uncover the entity behind this organization, we need to revisit the Middle East in 2019, when a coalition of Arab states including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt boycotted Qatar over its support for terrorism.
In contrast to the present, during the boycott, Arab commentators and journalists published articles exposing Qatar’s propaganda efforts in the United States and the large sums of money it poured into American “education.” Before the Saudi-Qatari rapprochement five years ago, allied Arab newspapers exposed how the Muslim Brotherhood movement had begun to control parts of the American education system.
At a time when Saudi Arabia and Qatar were in an increasingly hostile relationship, Jerusalem Post Office, Arab media commented on how professors and students aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood had become a disturbing influence on American campuses. They have used the censorship and thought control tools of political correctness to turn Islamism into a new “woke” element, sacralizing Palestinians as oppressed people of color and denying all opposition to their cause. It treated people as having politically incorrect “racist ideas” that should be silenced. .
writing in orange county register Late April, columnist Thomas D. Elias pointed Dependence on Qatari money was one of the reasons demonstrators marched through campus chanting “We are Hamas!” And the morning after the October 7 attack, they “gassed the Jews.” “As if the Jewish people had already bombed and crushed Gaza.”
“Wondering why so many faculty and staff members at campuses such as UC Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles, and University of California Santa Barbara are enthusiastically participating in the ongoing protests. To those who are,” Elias pointed out. Donations from Qatar and other Arabs could help, as they help fund hundreds of teaching positions. ”
