Report Alleges that Harvard University Maintains Ties to Terror Proxy Groups

Harvard has gone from Ivy League to ideological swamp, and a new report from NGO Monitor is pulling no punches. Titled “Advocacy NGOs in Academic Frameworks: Harvard University Case Study,” this “preliminary” bombshell lays bare how the crimson elite are cozying up to anti-Zionist NGOs that might as well be printing propaganda for terrorist groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 

Yes, that PFLP, [try saying that 3 times fast] an internationally designated terrorist group. 

Harvard’s academic centers, including the prestigious Harvard Law School, are apparently taking cues from groups like Al-Haq and Addameer, which Israel calls out as PFLP proxies. These NGOs are warping research and campus culture into a full-on anti-Zionist tilt.

Professor Gerald Steinberg, who co-authored the report with Dr. Adi Schwartz, isn’t mincing words: “The report demonstrates the major contribution from prominent advocacy NGOs to the atmosphere of propaganda and anti-Semitism at Harvard, particularly through frameworks claiming human rights agendas.” 

He’s sounding the alarm on “close cooperation” between these NGOs and Harvard’s academic programs, warning that this blurring of scholarship and activism is a five-alarm fire for academic integrity. Oh, and he’s got a kicker: “In this context, it is important to highlight the urgent need for transparency regarding funding for the NGOs and these Harvard academic frameworks.” 

Take the Harvard François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB). Until recently, it was partnered with a West Bank institution and leans hard on anti-Zionist players like Amnesty International for its “research.” 

This crew’s obsessed with Gaza, dedicating 40% of its public events to the topic. Then there’s FXB director Mary T. Bassett, who the report calls out as a problem child. Steinberg and Schwartz write, “A review of her publication record reflects the absence of any expertise on health issues in conflict zones, in general, or regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular.” Yet, she’s out here pushing an anti-Israel agenda, like her since-deleted FXB website post just one week after Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter, moaning about “the potential genocide facing civilians in Gaza.” 

Yes, she was worried the, you know, Joooze! would retaliate after Hamas slaughtered 1,200 innocent Israelis, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 more, most of whom were raped, beaten, starved and many murdered in captivity.

Funny how genocide works when it comes to Gazans: their population increased since 1948 going from around 60 to 80 thousand back then to around 2.1 million this year. Somehow Gazan genocide works in reverse.

Over at Harvard Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC), it’s no better. They’re feeding research to a U.N. commission accused of anti-Semitic bias and employing instructors with ties to Amnesty International, which legal experts and Israeli officials slam for peddling “anti-Semitic blood libels.” 

The clinic’s basically a pipeline for NGO advocacy, with the report noting, “The clinic prides itself on finding jobs for its alumni at a variety of NGOs around the globe.” Translation: it’s a factory for churning out anti-Zionist foot soldiers.

This all comes as Harvard’s grappling with its reputation as a hotbed of anti-Semitism dressed up in progressive piety. President Trump didn’t hold back last month, blasting on Truth Social: “Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institute, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart.” 

He called it a “Liberal mess” and a “threat to democracy.” 

Harvard’s interim president Alan Garber tried to clean up the mess in April with a 300-page report on campus anti-Semitism, complete with an apology for failing Jewish students post-Oct. 7. “I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,” Garber said, admitting the university didn’t protect Jews like other minorities. He promised to make Harvard a place “where ideas are welcomed, entertained, and contested in the spirt of seeking truth; where argument proceeds without sacrificing dignity; and where mutual respect is the norm.” 

Noble words, but with NGOs like Al-Haq and Addameer pulling strings, good luck with that.

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Look, Harvard’s not just a school—it’s a cultural juggernaut. When it’s this deep in bed with groups tied to terrorist proxies, it’s not just a campus problem; it’s a national one. Time to shine a light on this mess before it festers further and smelly stuff bubbles up to the top.

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USAID aided terrorist groups longitudinal study shows

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has given millions of dollars to extremist groups linked to Islamic terrorist organizations, according to a report from the Middle East Forum, a U.S. think tank.

"The Middle East Forum’s multi-year study of USAID and State Department spending has uncovered $164,000,000 of approved grants to radical organizations, with at least $122,000,000 million going to groups aligned with designated terrorists and their supporters," the conservative think tank wrote in its report published Feb. 4.

"Billions more of federal dollars have been given to leading American aid charities which have consistently failed to vet their terror-tied local partners, and show little interest in improving their practices, to the apparent indifference of the federal government."

The report specifically looks at funds from USAID and the State Department that ended up supporting radical groups and organizations connected to terrorism.

The think tank reported that USAID provided more than $900,000 to a "Gaza-based terror charity" called Bayader Association for Environment and Development. The funding started in 2016, with the latest allocation just days before the Hamassholes attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Bayader describes itself as an NGO working "to build a civil society" in the Gaza Strip.

"Founded in 2007, shortly after Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip, Bayader operates in close cooperation with the Hamas regime. Its 2021 annual report notes ‘coordination’ and ‘meetings’ with Hamas’s Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Social Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture," the report found.

The funds were channeled through other NGOs like Catholic Relief Services and medical groups.

"But USAID coordinates directly with Bayader as well," according to the report. "USAID officials have praised Bayader’s work on social media, and even visited Bayader’s offices, where one senior USAID official, Jonathan Kamin, received an award from the terror-linked charity."

The report also discovered that USAID approved a $12.5 million grant in 2024 to the American Near East Refugee Agency, a "long-standing partner" of Bayader. This agency was established in 1968 to aid refugees after the Arab-Israeli War.

It was found that employees of this NGO have publicly shared "violent ideas" like calling on God to "erase the Jews," supporting "brave prisoners" in Israeli jails during the Hamas-Israel conflict, and describing Oct. 7, 2023, as a "beautiful morning" without apparent reprimand from higher-ups.

Sam Westrop, the director of the Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch, highlighted these findings on X, calling them "horrifying."

"USAID won't even tell us how much they gave the Unlimited Friends Association, a Gaza terror charity which operates with help from Hamas. The head of the charity promises to ‘cleanse’ their land of ‘impure Jews,’" Westrop posted.

"USAID gave millions to Islamic Relief, whose Gaza branch openly works with senior terrorist officials in Gaza, including Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad. who promised that Hamas would repeat Oct 7 attacks ‘time and again until Israel is annihilated,’" he posted in another example from the report.

USAID funds amounting to $125,000 were traced to the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2015, despite the U.S. Treasury designating it a global terrorist organization in 2004 due to links with Osama bin Laden.

The report states that USAID "undoubtedly knew of ISRA’s terrorism activities. In 2010, the executive director of ISRA’s U.S. branch (IARA-USA) and a board member pleaded guilty to money-laundering, theft of public funds, conspiracy, and several other charges. The plea was listed on USAID’s own website," the report found.

The funds were funneled to ISRA through an evangelical charity called World Vision, which works on providing clean water in Sudan, according to the report.

A World Vision official told Fox News Digital that they earned approval to work in Sudan "to help build a better world for the most vulnerable children and their families" and take "compliance obligations seriously."

"As soon as we became aware that a local partner, Islamic Relief Agency, might be on the list of organizations banned from transactions by the United States, we suspended the grant and asked the US Government to confirm its status," the official said. "We would never knowingly put those we serve or our staff at risk by working with a partner on the list of banned organizations. We exist to help build a better world for children and their families, serving in the name of Jesus Christ. We have no evidence that any of our funds have been used for anything other than urgent humanitarian work."

"As a Christian humanitarian organization, we do not compromise our beliefs nor commitment to integrity as we work with governments throughout the world," the official added. "It is not easy to operate in fragile contexts, yet this is where the Lord is calling us. We remain committed to our vision of bringing life in all its fullness to vulnerable children around the world."

Fox News Digital reached out to Bayader, the American Near East Refugee Agency, and Catholic Relief Services but received no responses.

USAID faces scrutiny from the Trump administration as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, investigates its spending and considers restructuring or closing the agency. USAID is currently under the interim leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

On Feb. 4, USAID announced on its website that nearly all staff would be placed on leave by Friday, exempting those in "mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs." Its overseas missions have also been instructed to close.

Amid this potential dismantling, past USAID spending has come under review, revealing funds going to questionable initiatives like creating a version of "Sesame Street" in Iraq or funding pottery classes in Morocco,

USAID was set up in 1961 during the Kennedy administration to manage civilian foreign aid in close cooperation with the State Department. Rubio has suggested in a letter to Congress on Feb. 3 that USAID might be integrated into the State Department or abolished entirely.

Elon Musk has publicly stated on X that USAID is a "criminal organization" and that it's "time for it to die."

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American aid worker kidnapped in Niger

An American citizen working for a non-governmental organization "JEMED" has reportedly been kidnapped in Abalak, in the Tahoua region of Niger, according to The Long War Journal. This is the same region of Niger as last weeks attack on a Malian refugee camp.

The American works on behalf of YWAM (Youth with a Mission) an American NGO and the bodyguard and Nigerian national guard were killed during the kidnapping.

According to Nigerian government sources, the kidnappers would head north to Tchintabaraden and finally to the Malian border. This was later confirmed by France24.

It was also confirmed that the American had been living in Niger since the 1990's.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has been responsible for several kidnappings of Westerners in Niger and they are suspected in yesterday's kidnapping. However, no group has yet claimed responsibility.




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