Following last week’s IAM launch, another recent report deserves your attention. Conducted by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) on Qatar’s politically motivated investments in Western universities. This report provides a case study from Northwestern University-Qatar (NU-Q), the branch of Northwestern University in Qatar. IAM is involved in Qatar showing hostility towards Israel over the years. In particular, Qatar needs to influence U. S. policy. U. S. toward Israel.
At the time the NAS report notes that in 2013, NU-Q struck a formal deal with Qatari media outlet Al Jazeera to act as news hounds to work for the media outlet. Systems for academics. In addition, NU-Q helped Al Jazeera succeed in the U. S. media market. U. S.
Qatar has also used its influence for its friends, adding Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The NAS report explicitly states that “U. S. universities are not yet able to do so. “hostile to the national interests of the United States. “
As the report states, Northwestern University’s interest in linking up with Qatar is financial. Qatar can maintain its “almost absolutely intolerant monarchy and classical Islamic customs while escaping criticism. “interests and ideals. ” The report called this arrangement the “new progressive bigotry. “
Since its inception in 2006, Al Jazeera has been incredibly hostile to Israel and Zionism. Their reports are usually negative for delegitimizing the Jewish state.
For example, Al Jazeera’s online page defines Ionism as a “colonial movement” that, “as the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has stated, the Zionist leaders were well aware that the implementation of their mission would require the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population. In 1948, David Ben-Gurion, then head of the World Zionist Organization, proclaimed the base of the State of Israel in Palestine. The Zionists argued that Israel would provide a national home for Jews, allowing any Jewish user from anywhere in the world to immigrate there. and claim citizenship. Critics, however, argue that Zionism functioned like colonialism, pointing to the violent ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population and the structure of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as evidence.
Of course, Al Jazeera mentions the 1948 war when five Arab armies attacked nascent Israel or the Palestinian Arab riots opposed to Jews between 1936 and 1939 that were influenced by Nazi Germany.
As IAM has continuously reported, Iran, Qatar, and other enemies of Zionism have recruited Israeli academics to tarnish Israel. Ilan Pappe, one of the first among those pistols to rent, followed by Neve Gordon, Shlomo Sand, Ariella Azoulay and others.
However, it is worth reminding Al-Jazeera that Qatar is more of a colonialist creation than Israel. Mohammed bin Thani, the ruler of Qatar, signed a treaty with Great Britain in 1868 to recognize it as a separate entity. Qatar became a British protectorate from the early 20th century until its independence in 1971. Unlike Qatar, the Jews were promised a national home through the League of Nations, and Britain was given a mandate to create the national house of the Jewish people in Palestine.
While the Abraham Accords replaced much of the negative attitude the Arabs had toward the Jewish state, the hostility directed primarily through the Palestinians and their supporters, such as Qatar and Iran, is still there. Given that Qatar is one of the main funders of Western universities, it is not unexpected that anti-Semitism is skyrocketing, as is anti-Israelism.
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Neetu Arnold
September 14, 2022
Saudi Arabia has provided the largest investment to American universities of any country in the Middle East. In recent years, however, neighboring Qatar has become a vital rival. A small but wealthy Persian Gulf petrostate, Qatar has recently become the largest foreign funder of U. S. universities. The U. S. government, donating at least $4. 7 billion between 2001 and 2021. 1 Qataris fund study projects in many other fields, adding medical studies, cybersecurity, and economic development.
The main beneficiaries of the Qatari budget have one thing in common: they all have secondary campuses in the country. According to the Ministry of Education, Northwestern University has earned more than $600 million in Qatari gifts and contracts since opening a secondary campus in the country in 2007. The Illinois-based university is one of six U. S. campuses. He is employed in the U. S. in Qatar, of which he has a specific specialization. Cornell University, for example, focuses on medical education, while Georgetown University specializes in government and politics. The secondary campus of Northwestern University in Qatar (NU -Q) mainly covers journalism.
Figure 1: U. S. campuses in Qatar
The Qatar Foundation (QF), a state-owned non-profit organization founded in 1995 through the ruling circle of Qatari relatives in Qatari society, funded this educational complex. Through the QF, the country hopes to 1) increase the labour market participation rate of Qataris; 2) equip Qataris to upgrade foreigners who dominate many sectors of their existing workforce; 3) spare you the “brain drain” that occurs when Qataris examine abroad and do not return home; and 4) maintain the strength of Qatar’s Islamic customs and devout traditions. 2
After founding QF, Qatar began recruiting Western universities to build branch campuses in Education City, Doha, so that the country could provide educational opportunities to its youth. 3 The first branch campus, established through Virginia Commonwealth University, opened in 1997. NU -Q opened in 2008, thanks in large part to the work of the president of the Carnegie Endowment of New York, Vartan Gregorian, QF board member and close friend of one of Northwestern’s administrators. 4
QF recruited Northwestern to identify a Qatari secondary campus in the hope that the university would exercise long-term news hounds that could only be the presence of Qatari media abroad. Initially, this objective was largely unstated. In 2013, however, NU-Q reached a formal agreement. with the Qatari media outlet Al Jazeera to exercise bloodhounds for the media. NU-Q and Al Jazeera signed a Memorandum of Understanding that created Al Jazeera scholarships for NU-Q scholars and identified journalist exchange systems and exercise workshops in which academics can participate. As a component of the deal, NU-Q has committed to helping Al Jazeera expand into the U. S. media market. The U. S. news channel through its Al Jazeera America (AJA) news channel:
NU-Q will consult with Al Jazeera’s control over its university’s study interests and expertise in the U. S. media industry. As the news network progresses its plans for Al Jazeera America. 6
AJA closed in 2016, but Al Jazeera continues to find success with the American public with its social media platform AJ. 7
Nearly 500 fellows have graduated since NU-Q’s founding; The number of graduates has dropped from 35 in 2012 elegance to between 75 and 80 in 2021 elegance. 8
Universities that strike deals with Qatar are heavily criticized for the emirate’s intolerant practices. Qatar is a near-absolute monarchy that provides few protections for workers, women’s rights or freedom of the press. Critics of the Qatari government end up in jail, so the educational freedom of top university campuses remains a primary concern, as does the willingness of American universities to turn a blind eye to Qatar’s intolerant practices. 9 Qatar’s national vision, a plan of progression, underscores its goal of modernizing to keep up with globalization. But modernization does not mean liberalization. In fact, the National Vision obviously states that Qatar will not compromise its local and classical values on the call for modernization.
Qatar’s stipulation raises an herbal fear that U. S. universities will be able to do so. UU. se associated with the Qatari government, as U. S. values are not associated with the U. S. Stephen Eisenman, a former professor and president of the Northwest Faculty Senate, raised those fears after visiting the NU-Q campus in 2015. 10 He published a report proposing nine reform proposals, adding the following three:
— Develop scholarship systems for low-income and non-Qatari students
— Create shared governance for the NU-Q faculty
— Inform the government of Qatar that the easing of restrictions on expression and the press are for the continuation of the university’s activities in the country
In an email to the author, Eisenman said that as of 2021, university principals had implemented any of his recommendations. 11
In 2020, Northwestern moved an event with Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou’ Leila, whose lead singer is gay, from its Qatar campus to its U. S. campus. U. S. Qatar makes same-sex relations illegal and perpetrators can go to jail. . Northwestern said it moved the occasion because of “safety concerns. “The QF, however, contradicted Northwestern’s claim and said the NU-Q occasion was cancelled because it did not respect Qatari social customs. [12]
The Qatari government also insists on keeping a strict follow-up of playlists on its U. S. campuses. In 2015, Qatar banned a consultation in a media usage survey that asked participants if they thought the country was “moving in the right direction. “The dean of the northwest at the time, Dennis Everett, led the survey funded through Qatar’s National Research Fund (QNRF). 14
It is clear that Qatar’s values differ particularly from American values; In fact, the two trust systems explicitly contradict each other. In addition, Eisenman’s report claims that Northwestern made negligible profits from its Qatar campus. Then the question arises: why would Northwestern bother to operate in Qatar?
One of Northwestern’s motivations turns out to be a preference to exert its influence to liberalize Qatar. In the United States, universities use their authority, knowledge, and position to shape moral, political, and social decisions. 15 Especially after the Arab Spring in the early 2010s. , many American academics hoped that Middle Eastern countries would liberalize and help with this metamorphosis. As Everett said, “When we conducted our first study in 2013, the idea that the Arab Spring could usher in a movement toward looser discourse was exciting. “sixteen
Eisenman the blind enthusiasm Northwestern’s directors had for NU-Q before their trip:
The president and then the typhoon rector thought they were doing “God’s work” through and supporting NU-Q, as I was told before my visit, and evidently did not feel the need to interfere with God’s plan. 17
In other words, it turns out that Northwestern believed its secondary campus would influence Qatar rather than become Qatar’s topic of influence.
Courses presented through NU-Q disseminate the major ideologies of American universities. 18 “Multiethnic American Literature” examines minority writers who have challenged “dominant U. S. narratives. “restrictions and propagating elements of gender studies. 19 “Journalism in the Digital World,” a mandatory course for journalism students majoring for the first time with restrictions to distrust Breitbart News, a conservative American publication, because the publication has a “long history of distorting facts to have compatibility with a far-right agenda. “Average. 21
Northwestern’s partnership with Qatar also provides the university with opportunities to expand its success and revenue. In 2019, for example, Northwestern Medicine announced that it would open a hospital in Qatar in partnership with Alfardan Medicine, which is part of the Alfardan Group. 22 The Alfardan Group is led by Omar Hussain Alfardan, who sits on the Board of Directors. Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). HBKU is also a component of NU-Q. 23 Northwestern’s connection to Qatar has also helped in the country, as evidenced by the university’s five Qatari-funded chairs now. 24
Through its relationship with Qatar, Northwestern also gained access to a privilege enjoyed only by a handful of universities: Qatari study funds. Government-administered QNRF grants are only awarded to establishments located in Qatar; however, Northwestern’s secondary campus in Qatar makes the university eligible to apply for QNRF grants. 25 In 2019, NU-Q won 11 QNRF grants, most of which were aimed at political issues such as “driving behaviors in Qatar, Qatar’s foreign aid strategy and. . . the progression of Qatar’s national identity. ” 26
As is the case with government-funded studies, QNRF’s proposals deserve to address how the studies benefit Qatar or align with the Gulf State’s national vision. For example, one of Northwestern’s accepted study proposals, “Qatar’s Emerging Media Engagement Assessment: A Study of How AR, VR, and Other Emerging Media Are Being Used in Qatar,” asks Qatari citizens about their belief in media in the country. The proposal in particular states that the allocation will result in “greater opportunities to embellish Qatar’s regional and global reputation in progression and commitment to technological innovation. “27
It is unclear to what extent Northwestern benefited from funding for Qatari studies, as the university’s reports to the Ministry of Education remained vague. However, the university itself revealed some of the dollar amounts of its birthday party ads. of Engineering and Arts had won two QNRF scholarships, valued at $1,050,000 over 3 years. 28 It is unclear whether Northwestern reported all QNRF scholarships to the Ministry of Education.
Figure 2: Qatar Research Fellowships29
NU-Q provides a vital case study of how Qatar-funded secondary campuses work. Such partnerships are a new bureaucracy of foreign investment for American universities, but they have grown in popularity. NU-Q illustrates how foreign relations can develop: the Qatari government has shifted from investing in running a secondary campus to investing in American scholarships, studies, and even hospitals. By cultivating its bond with the host country, the university gains the possibility of raising funds through projects that become larger beyond the walls of the country’s campus. Original branch.
Qatar is exclusive compared to other Gulf states, and marriages with Qatar pose an exclusive risk to American higher education. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Qatar exercises extensive bureaucratic control over university operations. The Qatari government also owns all national spouse organizations, adding Doha Film Institute, the Qatar National Research Fund and Al Jazeera. Northwestern’s high school campus increases Qatar’s influence, and Qatar uses its influence to help its own friends, who come with Western adversaries like Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Universities have invested a great deal of time and manpower to help expand an intolerant regime that budgets for and befriends entities hostile to U. S. national interests. U. S.
High school campuses and other associations give U. S. universities more than a major issue. A stake in Qatar’s future, whether Qatar promotes or opposes U. S. interests. U. S. It turns out that Northwestern is willing to stay in Qatar at all costs. The university benefits from increased investment and the opportunity to grow, and, fearing Qatar’s censorship to maintain classical customs, may spread the fashionable logo of bigoted progressivism and identity politics that American scholars see as democracy.
American universities take advantage of the campuses of the best schools in the Middle East, as do Middle Eastern countries like Qatar. Northwestern demands nothing from Qatar beyond its money: the country can maintain its near-absolute intolerant monarchy and classic Islamic mores while escaping criticism. Win a new “mission field” in which they can work to export American identity politics and the new progressive bigotry. But this convenient arrangement only further corrupts American universities and serves neither American interests nor ideals.
1 “Report on foreign contracts and donations of the university,” Ministry of Education, accessed August 11, 2022, https://sites. ed. gov/foreigngifts/.
2 Qatar National Vision 2030, General Secretariat for Development Planning, Government of Qatar, July 2008, https://www. gco. gov. qa/en/about-qatar/national-vision2030/; “QF Stemming the Brain Drain,” The Peninsula, September 11, 2021, https://thepeninsulaqatar. com/article/11/09/2021/QF-stemming-the-brain-drain.
3 “About Qatar Foundation”, Qatar Foundation, accessed 8 December 2021, https://www. qf. org. qa/about.
4 Nancy Deneen, “The Gift of the Crown Boosts Middle East Studies,” Weinberg College of Arts
5 Burton Bollag, “Vartan Gregorian: From Immigrant to Leading Philanthropist,” Al-Fanar Media, May 2, 2021, https://www. al-fanarmedia. org/2021/05/vartan-gregorian/; “Vartan Gregorian: 1934–2021,” Carnegie Corporation of New York, April 16, 2021, https://www. carnegie. org/news/articles/obituary-president-vartan-gregorian/; “Vartan Gregorian: 1989-1997,” Office of the President, Brown University, accessed April 8, 2022, https://www. brown. edu/about/administration/president/people/past-presidents/vartan-gregorian-1989-1997.
6 “NU-Q and Al Jazeera Network Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Facilitate Knowledge Transfer, Increase Student Engagement and Strengthen Collaboration,” Northwestern University, Qatar, March 19, 2013, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/news/articles/2013/03-nu-q-al-jazeera-mou. html.
7 Eyder Peralta, “Al-Jazeera to shut down its U. S. network in April,” NPR, January 13, 2016, https://www. npr. org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/13/462940239/al-jazeera-will shut down-your-American-network-in-April.
8 Nanci Martin, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at NU-Q, to the author, December 5, 2021.
9 See Will Fitzgibbon, “Life in Prison for Poet Who Dared Insult Qatari Leader,” The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 30 November 2012, https://www. thebureauinvestigates. com/stories/2012-11-30/life-in-prison-for-the-poet-who-dared-insult-the-Qatari-leader; Mark Lobel, “Arrested for reporting on Qatar World Cup workers,” BBC, May 18, 2015, https://www. bbc. com/news/world-middle-east-32775563.
10 Stephen F. Eisenman, A Report on Northwestern University Qatar: Nine Proposals, March 2015, https://www. northwestern. edu/faculty-senate/about/faculty-resources/Senate Commentary – A Report% 20on NUQ Mar 2015 Eisenman . pdf.
11 Stephen Eisenman, to the author, 2 December 2021.
12 Sarah McLaughlin, “Northwestern University in Qatar Partner Claims Controversial Event Cancelled Due to ‘Qatar Laws’, ‘Cultural and Social Customs’,” FIRE, February 5, 2020, https://www. thefire. org/northwestern-university – au-qatar-a-socio-affirms-that-the-event-controversial-to-cancelled-in-the-laws-of-cultural-and-social-customs-of-Qatar/.
13 Sama Abduljawad, “Education City Universities Face Book Censorship,” The Daily Q, accessed December 9, 2021, https://thedailyq. org/3909/features/education-city-universities-face-book-censorship/.
14 Nick Anderson, “In Qatar’s Education City, American Universities Build a University Oas,” The Washington Post, December 6, 2015, https://www. washingtonpost. com/local/education/in-qatars-education-city-us – the universidades-están-construyendo-un-oasis-académico/2015/12/06/6b538702-8e01-11e5-ae1f-af46b7df8483_story. html.
15 Arnold, Priced Out: What College Costs America.
16 Alice Yin, “NU-Q researchers look at the social media landscape in the Middle East,” The Daily Northwestern, October 11, 2015, https://dailynorthwestern. com/2015/10/11/campus/nu-q-researchers-look-at-the-middle-east-social-media-landscape/.
17 Eisenman, to author, 2 December 2021.
18 Martin, to the author, 5 December 2021.
19 “NU-Q Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22,” Northwestern University, accessed December 8, 2021, https://my. qatar. northwestern. edu/academic-resources/policies/NU-Q-Catalog-2021_22—Updated2. pdf .
20 “DAY 202,” Northwestern University, Qatar, accessed December 9, 2021, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/academics/writing-center/resources-JOUR-202. html.
21 See Brian Flood, “Washington Post’s ‘Find the Fraud’ Fix Points to Broader Problem with Agenda-Driven Anonymous Sources,” Fox News, March 16, 2021, https://www. foxnews. com/media/washington-posts-find-the-anonymous-fraud-correction.
22 “Alfardan Group Enters Healthcare with Launch of ‘Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine,'” Northwestern Medicine, January 24, 2019, https://www. nm. org/about-us/northwestern-medicine- newsroom/press- press releases/2019/launch-of-alfardan-medicine-with-northwestern-medicine.
23 “Omar Hussain Al Fardan,” Family Business Council Gulf, accessed 8 December 2021, https://fbc-gulf. org/en/about/about-us/mission-vision-value; Northwestern, in particular, has a partnership with the Qatar Computer Research Institute, which runs under the HBKU umbrella. “Institutional Partnerships,” Northwestern University in Qatar, accessed December 8, 2021, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/ about de/sociedades. html.
24 Eisenman, Report on Qatar’s Northwestern University: Nine Proposals.
25 “Guidelines for Submitting Institution Registration as a Research Office,” Qatar National Research Fund, revised January 2019, https://www. qnrf. org/en-us/Funding/Policies-Rules-and-Regulations/RO-Registration-Policy.
26 “Qatar Awards Grants to Northwestern Faculty/Students to Research Migrant Contribution and Car Safety,” Northwestern University, Qatar, August 19, 2019, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/news/articles/2019/08-UREP-grants. html.
27 “Assessing Qatari Emerging Media Engagement: A Study of How AR, VR and Emerging Media are being used in Qatar,” NPRP12S-0227-190165, Qatar National Research Fund, accessed 9 December 2021, https://mis. qgrants. org/Public/AwardDetails. aspx? ParamPid=fhgjebebpg.
28 University Relations, “Grants Add to Northwestern-Qatar Partnership”, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, June 18, 2012, https://www. mccormick. northwestern. edu/news/articles/2012/06/qatar-national – Grant-Research-Fund. html.
29 Qatar National Research Fund, https://mis. qgrants. org/Public/AwardSearch. aspx; “Christina M. Paschyn”, Northwestern University in Qatar, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/directory/profiles/paschyn-christina. html#awards-and-grants; “Jocelyn Sage Mitchell”, Northwestern University in Qatar, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/directory/profiles/mitchell-jocelyn. html#grants; “S. Venus Jin”, Northwestern University in Qatar, https://www. qatar. northwestern. edu/directory/profiles/jin-s-venus. html#Grants.
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A colonial motion supporting the status quo by all means of a national state for Jews in historic Palestine
Zionism is a nationalist political ideology that called for the creation of a Jewish state and now supports Israel’s continued way of life as a state. Theodor Herzl, an Austrian Jew, is considered the “father” of political Zionism. The Zionist movement began at the end of the 19th century, in the midst of the development of European anti-Semitism. The motion garnered the support of Western European governments, especially after the Zionists agreed to identify their Jewish state in historic Palestine. The initial purpose of the Zionists was to reclaim as much of historic Palestine as possible, expelling the Palestinian population. Zionists actively encouraged the mass migration of European Jews to Palestine in the early part of the 20th century. Despite their efforts and the sharp rise in anti-Semitism in Europe that culminated in Nazi persecution, Arabs still outnumbered Jews in Palestine. Thus, as the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe has stated, the Zionist leaders were well aware that the implementation of their mission would require the ethnic cleansing of the local Palestinian population. In 1948, David Ben-Gurion, then head of the World Zionist Organization, proclaimed the founding of the State of Israel in Palestine. Zionists argued that Israel would provide a secure national home for Jews, allowing any Jewish user from anywhere in the world to immigrate there and claim citizenship. Critics, however, argue that Zionism operated like colonialism, pointing to the violent ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population and the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as evidence.