MICHAEL BEKESHA And MARC GREENDORFER: Is Foreign Cash Turning Our Kids Into Terrorist Sympathizers?
MICHAEL BEKESHA AND MARC GREENDORFER
CONTRIBUTOR
February 25, 2024
12:13 PM ET
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Shortly after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, a Harvard CAPS-Harris X poll found that 48% of Americans ages 18-24 supported Hamas over Israel. This is in direct contrast to 95% of Americans 65 years of age and older who sided with Israel. This stark difference begs the question: why do half of young Americans support a group that has been designated by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since October 1997? Our ongoing fight for transparency suggests at least some of the answers lie in Qatar’s pocketbooks.
Judicial Watch and the Zachor Legal Institute spent more than five years successfully fighting the Qatar Foundation in Texas courts for access to information that neither the Foundation nor Texas A&M University wanted to give us about the funding or donations made to Texas A&M by the government of Qatar and agencies and subdivisions of the government of Qatar. In the end, we learned that over $522 million flowed from Qatar to Texas A&M from Jan. 1, 2013, to May 22, 2018, including more than $485 million from Qatar Foundation’s coffers. (RELATED: ALAN DERSHOWITZ: What If Hamas Wins?)
Texas A&M is not alone in receiving money from Qatar and its affiliates. Based on reporting from our friends at the Daily Caller News Foundation, we know the Qatar Foundation gave more than $1 billion to elite American universities from 2011-2017, including Georgetown University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard. Although we can assume the money continues to flow in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, what we don’t know is how this money is being spent and what Qatar and its affiliates are getting in return. This should concern all Americans.
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