What Does Qatar Have to Do With Harvard, MIT, and Penn? LOTS...
What Does Qatar Have to Do With Harvard, MIT, and Penn? LOTS...
by Garrett O'Brien - Qatar dumps a LOT of money into our universities, a RED FLAG as this is a form of infiltration
Follow the Money
Every time something doesn’t make sense, then follow the money…
Do know that DEI also plays a big role in all this (diversity, equity, inclusion) - a framework that places more emphasis on the so-called deprived of the world and persecutes those who they see as not deprived.
In essence, victim card waivers who want to be enabled and don’t want anything to do with being empowered.
A new report by The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP) discloses that Qatar, the main funder of Hamas, is also the leading funder of American universities.
On December the 5th, 2023 – U.S. House of Representatives committee members asked the Presidents of 3 prestigious universities in the U.S. about the funding that they received from Qatar.
The impression given by most of them was that their Qatari funding is not coming from the state.
This answer is a partial truth as billions of US dollars are going to them via Qatari State-owned NGOs and commercial entities.
The ISGAP Follow the Money project’s previous reports have laid out the following:
Qatar is the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist ideology is intertwined with the State and furthermore, the links that Qatar has with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian Chapter – Hamas
The fact that money coming from foreign states such as Qatar is having a direct effect on increasing antisemitism and anti-democratic vies/activity.
This report lays out the way that Qatar is operating a war chest with between US$500 Billion – $1 Trillion of assets and growing, to affect soft power in the West – including U.S.’ prestigious universities.
The report examines the main Qatari institutions, their investments, the amounts of money, and how it is being funneled directly into U.S. universities by using Qatari state-owned NGOs such as The Qatar Foundation as well as other methods of transferring funds without reporting to either to the Department of Education or the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)
In the report, ISGAP examines the following sectors:
Hospitality
Real Estate
Energy
Food and Beverage
Education
Media
For the first time, the mechanisms and figures are laid out in one comprehensive report.
Hmmm…
In the above diagram, it is evident that the State of Qatar contributes more funds to universities in the United States than any other country in the world.
The diagram below illustrates the financial flow of donations from Qatar to U.S. universities, totaling approximately 3 billion USD…
The source for both of the above graphs is ISGAP’s report, ‘Networks of Hate: Qatari Paymasters, Soft Power, and the Manipulation of Democracy‘ which can be downloaded from our online library here…
According to a study published in 2022 by the National Association of Academics in the United States, a study that did not cause too much noise at the time, in the period between 2001 and 2021, precisely after the September 11 attacks, the Qataris donated a whopping $4.7 billion to universities in the United States.
The American universities that received the most significant funding from the Qataris, including Cornell, Georgetown, Northwestern, and Carnegie Mellon, established branches in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
Cornell, which belongs to the American Ivy League, opened a medical school for $1.8 billion, Georgetown received $750 million for a school of government and Northwestern established a journalism school for which it received $600 million in 2007.
The recipients, however, did not report part of the money received, as required by law.
Another study conducted back in 2020 by ISGAP found a direct connection between the amount of donations from Qatar and other Persian Gulf countries and the presence of pro-Palestinian groups that today feature on college campuses, led by SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine).
In some universities, SJP groups organized demonstrations and days of rage immediately on October 8, even before Israel began carrying out significant operations in Gaza.
There has been little, if any, disciplinary action for the Qatar-supported hate groups.
In early November 2023, Columbia and a few outliers suspended SJP as well as Jewish Voice for Peace (a misnomer, if there ever was one), albeit for only 6 weeks.
This explains why Harvard, MIT, Penn - and many other top US universities - have turned into Hamas mouthpieces.
So where is Qatar getting all this money?
Qatar Is Only One Factor
Qatar’s oil exports are less than 500,000 barrels a day, which amounts to about US$15B annually.
Their 2022 GDP was US$229B with the U.S. being their 11th largest destination for exports and 2nd largest source for imports (14.6% or US$3.897B).
Though they are among the top 10 richest countries on world rankings - their funding of higher education globally easily surpasses the financial aid and military equipment given to Ukraine by the Biden administration.
This report lays out the way that Qatar is operating a war chest of between US$500 Billion to $1 Trillion of assets and growing, to affect soft power in the West – including U.S. prestigious universities.
So where are they getting all this money?
Enter, the Muslim Brotherhood…
Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood
From the ISGAP report…
It is important to note that when Hamas was created, it designated itself as “one of the wings of Moslem Brotherhood in Palestine (sic).”
Qatar has provided a safe haven for Hamas’ political leadership since 2012.
In January 2015, then-Qatari Foreign Minister referred to then-Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal as the country’s “dear guest.”
Qatar is home to a relatively small population (2.6 million), only 11.6% of which is Qatari.
However, it is a wealthy emirate country, with a GNP of 229.007 billion USD in December 2022, in the Gulf, which gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1971.
It has 2 key neighboring countries, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with which it shares the largest natural gas field in the world.
Qatar positions itself as a critical mediator in regional disputes between various Arab and Muslim countries, and aligns with the U.S. as a key Gulf partner in several defense pacts and agreements.
Perhaps most significantly, Qatar hosts thousands of U.S. forces as well as the regional headquarters for the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Doha and at various other military facilities.
Decisive Action
Be sure to share this post with your social media network - not just once but several times during the coming weeks and months.
Next, get to know your Congressman and Senator by contacting them about this issue with our colleges and universities.
Add their numbers to your contact list, add their names to your social media followers then bookmark them for easier reach next time.
If they don’t recognize your name then you’re not contacting them as often as you should.
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