- A Department of Education program funds colleges to teach about the Arab world, but upcoming payments are going to colleges that have received millions of dollars from Arab countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, data shows.
- One critic said that coupling the program with the foreign funding is “a back-door route to Saudi influence.”
- Some of the universities employ faculty or have hosted guests who made anti-semitic remarks.
Universities funded by the Department of Education to help shape the way U.S. K-12 schools and colleges portray the Middle East and Israel are simultaneously bankrolled by $600 million tied to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Muslim-majority countries, a Daily Caller News Foundation data analysis found.
One critic called the payments “a back-door route to Saudi influence over America’s K-12 curriculum.”
The Cold War-era Higher Education Act of 1965 created a program called “Title VI” that pays colleges to help students better understand international relations and includes funds earmarked for studying the Middle East. It was intended to help prepare a cadre of intelligence agents and diplomats.
Instead, the money has funded anti-Americanism and anti-semitism in U.S. higher education, according to a November 2014 report by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. There have been instances where some of the universities hosted or employed anti-semites, with some facing accusations of having ties to terror groups.
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With about 2,000 major 4yr universities in the US that $100million per year would provide $50,000 per univ, without figuring which ones are heavily producing curriculum for k-12.. AND you can bet their portrayal of muslim history does not match the reality of their violence and slave-making and expansionism until they were stopped when western govt leaders Finally woke that they were invading… it’s a real shock to see the effect precisely of this indoctrination being compared to the real history, as in this video… especially the middle segments on history… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVruEq-Gupk The 1st 15 minutes is an examination of… Read more »