Qatar demands American schools in Doha 'be aligned' in wake of Oct. 7th

The directive arrived on the very same day that the dean of Northwestern University in Qatar refused to append his name to a statement issued by his American counterparts, a statement that rightly condemned an NU-Q professor for seeking to minimize the sheer horror of the Hamas terrorist atrocities of October 7, 2023.

[Image of Northwestern University Qatar campus (top) and Georgetown University Qatar (bottom) would appear here if visuals were provided, but the substance stands without them.]In the immediate aftermath of that barbaric assault byl Hamas, the regime in Qatar, so notably hospitable to the leadership of that very terrorist organization, issued a clear instruction to the American universities it hosts in Doha. They must, in the regime's own words, "be aligned and in touch" regarding all official communications. This demand emerges plainly from emails released by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Those same emails form part of a report issued on Tuesday, titled "How Campuses Became Hotbeds: The Rise of Radical Antisemitism on College Campuses." The documents reveal that on October 17, 2023, the government-controlled Qatar Foundation convened a call with representatives of the American branch campuses in Doha. The purpose, according to a readout sent by NU-Q associate dean James Shaw to dean Marwan Michael Kraidy, was to discuss "how it is going" in the wake of the attack.

A Qatar Foundation official, Francisco Marmolejo, President of Higher Education, called for "information sharing and no surprises," as Shaw recorded. He added, "Also each PU's [partner university's] Comms Team to be aligned and in touch with QF," thus conveying the Qatar Foundation's explicit expectations.

Shaw, for his part, voiced what he termed a "slight concern," not at the prospect of aligning with a regime that sustains Hamas, but rather at the fact that his own institution had "navigated the first 10 days of this crisis with minimal comms support due to absence."

One need hardly labor the irony. Here was an American university branch, funded and hosted by a state that harbors and finances terrorists, being pressed to synchronize its public voice with that state, even as its dean recoiled from condemning a colleague who cast doubt on documented atrocities. The alignment demanded was not with truth, or with moral clarity, but with the preferences of those who prefer obfuscation. It is a small but telling illustration of how influence, money, and fear can quietly erode the principles that Western institutions claim to hold dear.

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Jewish students file discrimination suit against Harvard for "enabling anti-Semitism"

A group of Jewish Harvard students have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the DEI-centric, anti-Semitic school. The suit claims university officials employ a "double standard" where other groups are protected from harassment and discrimination, but they do not do this when it comes to Jewish students who are targeted.

[H/T The NY Post.]

The suit was filed Wednesday night and alleges that Harvard has allowed students and faculty who have been accused of anti-Semitic act to remain on campus, adding that one time even gave a mob of pro-Palestinian demonstrators with "burritos and candy."

“Harvard’s anti-Semitism cancer — as a past Harvard president termed it — manifests itself as a double standard invidious to Jews,” the lawsuit reads, which was filed in Boston federal court.

“Harvard selectively enforces its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, hires professors who support anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda, and ignores Jewish students’ pleas for protection.”

The lawsuit argues that the university “permits students and faculty to advocate, without consequence, the murder of Jews, and the destruction of Israel, the only Jewish country in the world.

“Meanwhile, Harvard requires students to take a training class that warns that they will be disciplined if they engage in ‘sizeism,’ ‘fatphobia,’ ‘racism,’ ‘transphobia’ or other disfavored behavior.”

In addition, and very importantly, the suit said that Harvard officials have  “been aware of its anti-Semitism for years, but its response has been, to say the least, clearly unreasonable and totally unacceptable in not just tolerating, but enabling anti-Semitism.”

The suit goes on to say that even prior to the October 7 attack by the Hamassholes on Israeli citizens, the group Harvard Out of Palestine “led a relentless campaign against retired Israeli Major Gen. Amos Yadlin, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government” in which students marched through campus in April 2022, banging on drums and using a megaphone to accuse Yadlin of being personally responsible for “genocide.”

Obviously, not only do Harvard students and most other college students in the U.S., not understand what genocide is, they are ignorant, willfully and otherwise, to what Hamas pledges against Israel and Jews in the diaspora. 

Wednesday’s suit comes amid a Congressional investigation into the reports of anti-Semitism on Harvard's campus. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has demanded Harvard hand over all documents related to Jewish students and anti-Semitism on campus.

It is giving the university just two weeks to comply.

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