Universities, Institutes, journals, Aramco, foundations, academic chairs are all funded by Arab money – and truth plays no role in their scholarly endeavors.
“The issue of who finances the so-called ‘academic scholarship’ that delegitimizes the State of Israel, and of who supports the various campus activities against it, is extremely complex and multifaceted. The partial initiatives to study this subject are far from adequate.
“Yet we know certain facts concerning this topic. Various foundations, mainly with Arab and Muslim donors, play a leading role in funding Middle East and Israel scholarship throughout the world. Many donations are dispersed through foundations set up by royal families.”
Ofira Seliktar is professor of political science (emerita) at Gratz College, Pennsylvania, and a former scholar in residence at the Middle East Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of nine books and scores of articles on American intelligence.
Seliktar gives a number of examples. “The Saudi Prince Waleed Al Talal Foundation stands out with regard to the size of its donations in the UnitedStates. It has funded, for instance, Middle East centers in elite universities, including Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and Berkeley.
“The Sultan bin Abdul Aziz ibn Saud Foundation is another prominent Saudi foundation. It has donated large sums of money to the Middle East center at Berkeley as well as to a number at other American universities. The Saudi Khalid Bin Abdullah, Bin Abdul Rahman al Saud Foundation has endowed a chair at Harvard University.
“The Sultan of Oman Foundation has also endowed a chair at Harvard University. Qatar is a relative newcomer to the field. It is developing a highly ambitious program to shape Western higher education. A foundation has been set up by the country’s Ibn Kahlifa Al Thani ruling family. It has already become a major player in Middle Eastern and foreign policy scholarship.
“Iran is promoting the Shi’ite version of Islam and Iranian foreign policy. Its funding is funneled through the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Culture and Guidance, the Ministry ofInformation and Security — which is responsible for intelligence — as well as a multitude of religious foundations. A very prominent one is the Alavi Foundation, which, in turn, is run by the Mustazafeen Foundation. The latter is the largest parastatal conglomerate in Iran, created by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. The Alavi Foundation has given grants to more than thirty universities across North America. The sanctions designed to roll back Iran’s nuclear program did not impact the Mustazafeen Foundation, which, as a parastatal group, has its own budget.
“Many prominent institutes and journals have also received large donations from Arab sources. These include the Middle East Policy Council and its Middle East Policy Journal. This journal published, for instance, the initial essay of John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt on the Israel Lobby, which was later published as a book.
“Yet another institute subsidized by Arab donors is the Institute for Palestine Studies. Its publication, The Journal of Palestine Studies, pioneered the academic studies of ‘Israel as a Colonial State’ and ‘Israel as an Apartheid State’. The Qatar Foundation bought the printing giant, Elsevier Press. It publishes, inter alia, Lancet, a very prestigious medical publication. Lancet has published, for instance, an inflammatory op-ed on alleged Israeli atrocities during the Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in 2014.
“A second source of anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian scholarship are free-standing foundations. Much publicity was given in the early 2000s to the activities of the Ford Foundation. In 2003, Edwin Black published a series of articles for the Jewish Telegraph Agency in which he outlined how the foundation funded anti-Israel activism. One among the many issues he unveiled was the funding of anti-Israel activism at the UN World Conference against Racism, which was held in 2001 in Durban, South Africa. When this became known, the US Congress ordered the Ford Foundation to refrain from making grants to those that promote hostility to the image of Israel.
“Yet another category of donors to anti-Israel activities are oil companies and large conglomerates with extensive ties to the Middle East. The largestcontributor is the oil company, Aramco. An article in Aramco World explains: ‘The Middle East is the only area study that is not really geographically based…Any intellectual subject that involves either the Arabs or Islam, contemporarily or historically, is a legitimate subject for scholars to take on.’ The article continues, saying that Aramco will support ‘paving the way to greater interregional understanding’ by investing in Middle Eastern centers in American universities.
“A subject which requires extensive and detailed study is the funding by various German foundations of scholarship that is critical of Israel. This has to be seen as being within the general framework of funding by German foundations of studies in Israel.”
Seliktar concludes: “Systematic research on the subject of the funding of the delegitimization of Israel is beyond the capacity of even an entire team of scholars. It would require the resolve and the resources of the State of Israel. One can only wonder why this national security threat has not been addressed by the Israeli government.”
Indeed, why not?
CuriousAmerican Said:
so few muslims but they want to control the dialogue. do you think that the “dialogue” they want to control is only about Israel… that their investments in SA are for Israel. I expect that they want to pave a way for acceptance of muslims and Islam. Israel is a red herring, a peanut shell game to distract your eyes.
jews will likely have to leave over time, as usual. but what about the christians? It appears that Muslims wield great influence without the numbers so as the numbers increase the influence would skyrocket. Look at europe. The communist party was 10% of russia and they were not as fervent as the islamists. We can already clearly see what their plans are for christians by looking at the ME and europe.
Meanwhile the christian BDS churches are too busy stalking the Jews or appeasing the muslims with recognition’s to see the writing on the wall. Feeding the Jews to the crocodile did not work last time.
yamit82 Said:
Try using a few comas,,,,,,,,,.
honeybee Said:
Nothing it’s irrelevant this is not about them but the Jews.
@ CuriousAmerican:
@ yamit82:
What if one is a useless idiot ????
CuriousAmerican Said:
No I didn’t call you a bigot… I gave you chapter and verse of how the Jewish Bible explains cause and effect. Now if you got a problem with that take it up with him.
And you call me the bigot?!!
The Moshiach that Christians recognize is the Moshiach of history.
CuriousAmerican Said:
Our Jewish G-d is the G-d of History…. You Gentiles are nothing more than his useful idiots whose purpose is to push lousy Jews who still cling to the exile to get out of Dodge and come home or else….. ”
O Assyria, the rod of my anger, the staff in their hand is my indignation” Isaiah 10:5
Isaiah 7:17
The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah–he will bring the king of Assyria.”
“Fury poured out.” Heaven help us!
if you think it is bad in the USA, consider what it is like where Jews are not a vital force in society to counter this.
In many ways, the Arabs are imitating earlier Zionist/Jewish strategies for influence.
Uruguay has 3,500,000 people … ONLY 350 Muslims which is 0.01% or one-ten-thousandth of the population.
So why does the the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY have a Permanent Chair of Islam.
The Catholic University??????
In Uruguay???????
Uruguay: a country with less than one in ten thousand Muslims?????
Under 350 Muslims, most of whom are not university students?????
Saudi and Iranian money control the dialogue in South America.
No AIPAC. NO B’nai Brith, just a few Chabad houses around Buenos Aires, Rosario, and some outposts.
South American Jews never organized like in the USA – So there is a real anti-Israel narrative which runs uncontested.
As bad as you think the USA and Canada are, the rest of the world is much worse.
Wait a moment!
You mean to tell me that the MOSAD does not know? Really?
I mean, honestly. Please lets allow those that are tasked with knowing and finding to distribute the information.