The hidden foreign funding behind campus antisemitism
The antisemitic pro-Palestinian protesters who wreaked havoc on leftist college campuses this spring are part of a broader scheme funded by anti-Israel nations.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait have contributed a combined $10.3 billion to universities between 1986 and 2020, according to transparency nonprofit organization Open the Books.
Given that more than $5 billion of that came from Qatar, a key financial contributor to Hamas, it should be no surprise that al Qaeda and Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed the young protesters and their disturbing actions.
Foreign nations have long given money to top colleges to buy influence. Almost 200 universities hold contracts with Chinese businesses to the tune of $2.32 billion. The University of Pennsylvania has received more than $50 million in foreign funding from China since President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The tangible applications of such foreign financing can be difficult to see at times, given that it often manifests itself in ideology and hides underneath the surface of our collective cultural conscience. Though there is no explicit tie between these foreign donations and the protesters’ behavior on campus, their shared antisemitic beliefs draw a clear connection.
But when Jewish students are being harassed on the way to class and violent clashes are breaking out on college quads, the domestic threats of such foreign influence are now revealing themselves in front of our very eyes.
Biden is partially to blame.
He recently moved enforcement responsibility from the department’s Office of the General Counsel to the Office of Federal Student Aid. This move made it easier for colleges to sidestep the federal law that prohibits them from secretly receiving foreign aid.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires universities to report transactions of more than $250,000 from foreign nations within a calendar year to the Department of Education. This rule is hardly enforced, however, leaving parents and taxpayers in the dark regarding the sources of universities’ finances.
Between June 2019 and October 2020, former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos opened an investigation into 21 universities to uncover underreporting of foreign contracts and donations. The investigation revealed $6.5 billion of unreported funds.
Biden’s soft-on-crime stance and its harmful effects know no bounds. The Network Contagion Research Institute has reported, “From 2015-2020, institutions that accepted funding from Middle Eastern donors had, on average, 300% more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not.”
Despite the Left’s perpetual insistence that it’s on the side of the oppressed and marginalized, the Jewish community often finds itself excluded from its sympathies. This blatant hypocrisy has been on full display since Oct. 7, with the pro-Palestinian movement on college campuses being the most obvious manifestation of Biden and the Left’s moral blindness.
When the terrorist organization behind 9/11 endorses your protest, you might not be on the right side of history.
Source » msn
