NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY ANSWERS FOR MASSIVE CASH HAUL FROM QATAR
On Thursday, Northwestern was held to account in a hearing by the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Labor Force.
NU President Michael Schill had to answer for shocking concessions he made to anti-Israel protestors who occupied his campus.
Schill was confronted with our findings that nearly $1 billion in foreign cash has poured into the school since 2007. The bulk of it came from Qatar, the tiny nation that harbors key Hamas leaders.
Yesterday, I joined The National Desk to discuss our findings and the hearing:
A staggering $690M was donated from Qatar to NU, much of it for their mutual partnership: a degree-conferring campus (NU-Q) in Qatar.
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), with a huge check as a visual aid, walked through the details:
- NU-Q has a partnership with Al Jazeera for journalism students; more than 1/3 of the campus speakers expressed pro-Hamas sentiments.
- The royal family of Qatar funds Al Jazeera, which delivers the Qatar point-of-view in the news.
- NU-Q mints journalists hired by… Al Jazeera.
- NU-Q has at least one visiting professor associated with an organization accused of funneling funds to Hamas.
- Of $690 million, Northwestern took $173 million to agree to the satellite campus, and another chunk of money to provide scholarships in tandem with the government-backed Qatar Foundation.
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