American Universities Taking Billions from Mideast Donors and the CCP.
And guess which universities saw an uptick in antisemitic activity.
Perhaps a reason many American universities have been willing to tolerate anti-Jewish hate is because they have been taking funds from countries such as Qatar who houses and protests the leaders of Hamas.
City Journal:
For decades, China and Middle Eastern autocracies have been pouring billions of dollars into American and other foreign universities. Such funds support students from their countries but can also support academic programs that propagate these countries’ world views.
China’s so-called Confucius Institutes, for instance, which push the Chinese Communist Party’s agenda on college campuses and seek access to U.S. technological prowess, have garnered much international attention. Including these institutes and other efforts, China contributed $1.2 billion to American colleges between 2014 and 2020. It has spent roughly another $1 billion since 2020.
Middle Eastern countries’ donations draw much less attention. Between 2014 and 2020, Muslim-majority countries together donated $4.86 billion to American higher-educational institutions, representing 29 percent of all foreign donations.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia were responsible for much of this largesse. The two countries together invested $3.7 billion in American higher education and were cumulatively responsible for 2,303 grants, gifts, and contracts, of which 422 exceeded $1 million and 17 exceeded $50 million in value. Most of the largest gifts came from Qatar to Cornell and Carnegie Mellon.
Qatar’s role is particularly troubling, since the country is often an ally to both Iran and Hamas. The country also backs other terrorist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, and is home to the most important Middle Eastern media outfit, Al Jazeera. Along with Saudi Arabia, Qatar is among the largest donors to Palestinian organizations and causes.
More reports of funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) HERE and HERE.
This report from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) explains in some detail how American universities are taking money from Mideast countries and the CCP. These universities are not reporting all of the donations to the Department of Education.
NCRI reports that they found a correlation between an increase in antisemitic acts and speech at universities that received the funds:
Study One found that receipt of undocumented money was associated with erosion of free speech norms: Increased campaigns to punish scholars for their speech (it was associated with increased levels of such campaigns from both the left and the right). Studies Two through four addressed the relationship between undocumented funding and antisemitism. Study two found that receipt of undocumented money was associated with increased levels of campus antisemitism, and this relationship was larger when the undocumented funding came from Middle Eastern/authoritarian states. Study three found that receipt of undocumented money predicted increased perceptions of campus antisemitism in a national survey administered to 1748 college students. Using Granger Causality temporal analyses, study four found: 1. A positive directional association between campus antisemitic incidents and antisemitic incidents on the county level; and 2. a higher temporal correlation between use of the #Israeliapartheid hashtag on Twitter and antisemitic incidents at education institutions that received undocumented funding than those institutions that did not.
In its totality, these findings described how a lack of transparency in funding reporting occurred in tandem with antidemocratic norms and antisemitism across American institutions of higher education. Discussion addresses limitations to this research, the role of undocumented funding of higher education in eroding liberal democratic norms and exacerbating intergroup conflict, and directions for future research.
A Chinese Communist Party-allied group behind Hamas-friendly protests in US. And they are tax exempt! Washington Examiner:
A little-known "socialist" activist hub in New York City pushing pro-China talking points is helping to organize protests against Israel in the United States alongside shadowy dark money groups sympathetic to Hamas and other Palestinian terror factions, records show.
The People's Forum, which dubs itself "a movement incubator for working class and marginalized communities to build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad," is co-leading a "Shut it down for Palestine" event Thursday in Manhattan and marched in Washington, D.C., last Saturday with tens of thousands of protesters boosting Hamas, whose Oct. 7 attacks against the Jewish state have since killed more than 1,400 Israelis. That same charity hosts events with entities downplaying China's genocide against ethnic Uyghurs and has pocketed millions of dollars combined from groups tied to a reported "Chinese propaganda" influence operation, according to tax forms reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
The People's Forum's leading involvement in the pro-Palestinian movement amid the bloody Middle East conflict further underscores how China-allied organizations are sowing discord in the U.S. while officials in China, Russia, and Iran leverage social media to proliferate disinformation in connection to the war.
In interviews, members of Congress and foreign policy experts raised national security concerns over the apparent influence on the Israel issue of the People's Forum, a nonprofit group that, on its latest publicly available financial disclosures, lists an address for a New York City space featuring a cafe, theater, library, and "media laboratory."
"Their funding train depends in part on American progressives entrenched in the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda apparatus," said Michael Sobolik, senior fellow for Indo-Pacific studies at the American Foreign Policy Council think tank. "That this organization is now organizing anti-Israel political demonstrations in America shouldn’t surprise anyone. It should, however, be a wake-up call to Americans, many of whom are unwittingly parroting Beijing’s talking points about Israel and Gaza."
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told the Washington Examiner she supports "immediately investigating the People's Forum and organizations like it to determine what level of funding and coordination these pro-Hamas rallies have received from America’s adversaries."
The People's Forum was granted tax-exempt status in October 2017, an IRS determination letter shows. Since that time, the charity has been intent on "bringing socialist ideas to the new generations of organizers and activists," according to its website's donation page.
The People's Forum is listed on a flyer posted on social media for last Saturday's national pro-Palestinian march, and it assisted ANSWER, a left-wing coalition that justified Oct. 7, in fundraising and providing transportation details to the public, a Google form shows. The event saw statues defaced and other acts of vandalism, including red paint smeared on the White House gates as protesters chanted "F*** Joe Biden" and tried to climb the fence, according to social media posts.
The New York group also coordinated with pro-Palestinian partners for an October rally in Newark, New Jersey, among other locations, and on Thursday is demanding a ceasefire and end to U.S. aid to Israel at New York City's Bryant Park, flyers show.