Study Shows Universities Funded by Qatar Become Institutionally Antisemitic
UCF may receive Qatari funding through the Pathways program.
A comprehensive study conducted years ago is helping to explain the seemingly-sudden surge of antisemitism at U.S. college campuses.
Forensic accountants working with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) told the U.S. Department of Justice in 2019 that while nearly $5 billion had been donated by the Crown-controlled Qatar Foundation to American universities since 2001, less than $2 billion was actually reported. This was later confirmed by the U.S. Department of Education.
The study finds a notable correlation between universities receiving dark money from Qatar and those same universities acquiring active Students for Justice in Palestine affiliates. It also finds a correlation between this funding and the silencing of Jewish voices in the campus academic community.
Qatar, which fully owns and operates the antisemitic news network Al Jazeera, and currently harbors the leaders of Hamas, has been rewarded for its payments to prominent U.S. universities. Some of them have established campuses in Qatar itself, including Carnegie Mellon; Cornell; Georgetown; Northwestern; Texas A&M; and Virginia Commonwealth. While rewards of this scale have only been granted by some of the receipients of Qatari funding, ISGAP’s study demonstrates that universities may be repaying the Crown’s donations in less material and more ideological ways. Those universities reciving billions from the Crown and failing to report them to the Education Department include Rutgers, MIT, Maryland, Harvard, Yale, UT, Case Western Reserve, Fordham, and Stanford.
It was not immediately clear how much money UCF has received, if any, from Qatar. However, Qatar is specifically noted as a sponsor of the UCF Pathways Program, which implies a finanical connection between the Crown and UCF.
The prevalent rise of antisemitic sentiment on U.S. college campuses can be thus in part attributed to astroturfing rather than a grassroots movement to support Jew killing. This development continues to show how American universities bear responsibility for Jew-hatred on their campuses.