The same country now protecting Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities.
Qatar’s War for Young American Minds
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Qatar has donated over $760 million to Georgetown since 2005. They are easily the largest foreign donors for US universities. That is not disconnected from what you are seeing today. https://t.co/QOVKgXRczE pic.twitter.com/p5R1JXiFkp
Right now, senior leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, are huddled in Qatar. They’ve been there for years. But American foreign policy has turned a blind eye. Why? One reason might be that for the last 25 years, this small, energy-rich state has pumped billions into America to purchase influence and good favor.
The Qataris have spent their lavish fortune at American law firms, on lobbying contracts with former senior officials, and on junkets and partnerships with big media companies. The biggest recipients of Qatari largesse, though, have been major universities and think tanks.
The numbers are staggering. According to a 2022 study from the National Association of Scholars, Qatar today is the largest foreign donor to American universities. The study found that between 2001 and 2021, the petrostate donated a whopping $4.7 billion to U.S. colleges. The largest recipients are some of America’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. These schools have partnered with the regime to build campuses in Doha’s “education city,” a special district of the capital that hosts satellite colleges for American universities:
- Since 1997, Qatar has donated more than $103 million to Virginia Commonwealth University for a fine arts campus.
- Since 2001, Qatar has donated $1.8 billion to Cornell for a medical school.
- Since 2003, Qatar has donated nearly $700 million to Texas A&M for an engineering campus.
- Since 2004, Qatar has donated $740 million to Carnegie Mellon University for a computer science campus.
- Since 2005, Qatar has donated $760 million to Georgetown University for a school of politics.
- Since 2008, Qatar has donated nearly $602 million to Northwestern University for a school of journalism.
More here: The FP