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Source: https://www.thefp.com/p/campus-rage-middle-eastern-roots-qatar
Is Campus Antisemitic Hate Fueled by Middle Eastern Money?
(Free Press) Bari Weiss - For several decades a toxic worldview - morally relativist, anti-Israel, and anti-American - has been incubating in "area studies" departments and social theory programs at elite universities. Whole narratives have been constructed to dehumanize Israelis and brand Israel as a "white, colonial project" to be "resisted." The students you see in the videos of campus hate rallies have been marinating in this ideology. The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a nonprofit research center, has found that the number of reported antisemitic incidents on a given campus has a meaningful relationship to whether that university has received funding from regimes in the Middle East. The report found that "a massive influx of foreign, concealed donations to American institutions of higher learning, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from Middle Eastern sources, reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression." From 2015-2020, institutions that accepted money from Middle Eastern donors had, on average, 300% more antisemitic incidents than those institutions that did not. At least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undocumented contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian.