Foreign influence has corrupted our universities in America, brainwashing kids into admiring Communist dictators and Islamic jihadis while rejecting capitalism, liberty, and Judeo-Christian morality.
As the Trump administration takes on universities, it should threaten to withhold federal funding from any educational institutions that receive substantial donations from hostile nations, particularly China and Qatar.
These two murderous regimes are the biggest funders of our universities in America. While other countries also give substantial amounts of money to our universities, including Saudi Arabia and Germany, I am going to focus on Qatar and China because their regimes espouse ideologies directly and terrifyingly opposed to all our founding principles.
In Pacificus VI, written in 1793, Alexander Hamilton warned that foreign influence is “anti-national” and therefore harmful. If only we had taken his advice more to heart:
The information which the address of the Convention contains, ought to serve as an instructive lesson to the people of this country. It ought to teach us not to over-rate foreign friendships—to be upon our guard against foreign attachments. The former will generally be found hollow and delusive; the latter will have a natural tendency to lead us aside from our own true interest, and to make us the dupes of foreign influence. They introduce a principle of action, which in its effects, if the expression may be allowed, is anti-national. Foreign influence is truly the Grecian Horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its entrance.
Unfortunately, we haven’t been careful.
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In a study from Network Contagion Research Institute shared first with The Free Press this year, research showed that Qatar has been the biggest source of foreign funds at U.S. universities for nearly 40 years. Qatar, which is controlled by the uber wealthy Al-Thani royal family who are infamous for being prime backers of Hamas terrorists, provided $6.3 billion.
Qatar funded Hamas, and for a long time hosted Hamas leaders in sumptuous luxury while the jihadi soldiers left behind in Gaza killed Israelis year after year. Hamas leaders did leave Qatar’s capital, Doha, last year, but the Qatari government carefully stressed that Hamas’s political office was not shut down. Qatar not only supported Hamas during the Oct. 7 massacre, but it continues to do so. This is the regime that has given billions of dollars to American universities. Suddenly, it makes sense why so many American college students hate Israel and support Hamas.
From the study:
The second-largest source of foreign funding is China. Chinese funding accounts for $5.6 billion and, as with Qatar, Chinese donations have increased sharply in the past four years, with $2.3 billion in donations from 2021 to 2024. China is the single largest source of overseas donations to some of America’s most prestigious universities, including Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford.
The Chinese Communist Party has killed more people than any other regime in history, it is currently committing genocide and religious persecution, it utilizes torture and rape on a mass scale, and it runs an aggressive censorship regime and surveillance state. In fact, the CCP is America’s number one enemy. No American university should be allowed to accept funds from China.
The Trump administration can force all universities that receive federal funds to eschew all Qatari and Chinese grants. We cannot be too careful.
