Posted on Jan 4, 2024
'Dark money nightmare': How Qatar bought the Ivy League | World Israel News
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The hapless testimony by three Ivy League university presidents from Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce can be traced to Qatar and its insidious campaign to buy itself influence in US academia.
Qatar, oil-rich and with an estimated population of only 2.5 million, is the largest foreign donor — that we know about — to American universities, with at least $4.7 billion donated between 2001 and 2021. Many of those billions went unreported to the Department of Education, according to research done by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Under federal law, colleges and universities that receive donations from foreign sources that total at least $250,000 must disclose such transactions to the Department of Education.
Qatar is far from the only authoritarian nation that donates to American universities. According to a Department of Education report from April 2023, American universities and colleges have received $19 billion from unreported sources, more than half of which has come from authoritarian and antidemocratic Middle East governments.
Qatar, oil-rich and with an estimated population of only 2.5 million, is the largest foreign donor — that we know about — to American universities, with at least $4.7 billion donated between 2001 and 2021. Many of those billions went unreported to the Department of Education, according to research done by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). Under federal law, colleges and universities that receive donations from foreign sources that total at least $250,000 must disclose such transactions to the Department of Education.
Qatar is far from the only authoritarian nation that donates to American universities. According to a Department of Education report from April 2023, American universities and colleges have received $19 billion from unreported sources, more than half of which has come from authoritarian and antidemocratic Middle East governments.
'Dark money nightmare': How Qatar bought the Ivy League | World Israel News
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Some academians find equity is a great and fine philosophy until someone with deep pockets want to line theirs.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
Why not?
I have seen many people claim many places foreign money does not belong.
Some seem self-evident to me. Foreign money does not belong in manilla envelopes with politician's names on them. Sure. But NO money belongs in those envelopes, as bribery is wrong no matter whether it is foreign or domestic.
So where DOES foreign money belong?
Or, let me ask it a better way: why is foreign money WORSE than multinational corporate money? Why is it WORSE than domestic corporate money? Why is it WORSE than billionaire activist (i.e. George Soros) money?
I know the bumper sticker slogan is easy. But why do you believe it?
Personally, money is just the instrument. If money coming from the CCP is bad because of a corrupting influence, then it is bad coming from ANYWHERE. But it isn't the money that is bad, it is the influence. And with *that* understanding, I say foreign money is BETTER because it saves *our* money and allows it be sent to other priorities.
I have seen many people claim many places foreign money does not belong.
Some seem self-evident to me. Foreign money does not belong in manilla envelopes with politician's names on them. Sure. But NO money belongs in those envelopes, as bribery is wrong no matter whether it is foreign or domestic.
So where DOES foreign money belong?
Or, let me ask it a better way: why is foreign money WORSE than multinational corporate money? Why is it WORSE than domestic corporate money? Why is it WORSE than billionaire activist (i.e. George Soros) money?
I know the bumper sticker slogan is easy. But why do you believe it?
Personally, money is just the instrument. If money coming from the CCP is bad because of a corrupting influence, then it is bad coming from ANYWHERE. But it isn't the money that is bad, it is the influence. And with *that* understanding, I say foreign money is BETTER because it saves *our* money and allows it be sent to other priorities.
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