Day 11 of the pro-Palestine encampment at Columbia University
Qatar ambassador to US rejects claims of links with campus protests
Meshal Hamad Al Thani has said that Qatar is not financially backing protests on US college campuses, despite accusations to the contrary.
“Qatar is not a large donor to U.S. universities. The Qatar Foundation pays the costs for six U.S. universities to maintain faculty and operate campuses in Qatar, educating and awarding degrees to women and men from Qatar and others who wish to study there,” he wrote in a post on X.
“These are not donations,” he said. “Qatar does not influence these universities, and we have nothing to do with anything that happens on their home campuses in the U.S.”
Regarding media reports alleging some link between Qatar and recent events on U.S. university campuses, it is important to get the facts straight.
Qatar is not a large donor to U.S. universities.
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— Meshal Hamad AlThani (@Amb_AlThani) April 28, 2024
Israel routinely accuses Qatar of funding anti-semitism
Qatar funds US universities and growing antisemitic violence in them
Tuition of terror: Qatari money flowed into U.S. universities - and now it's fueling violence
Michael Oren: FBI must investigate money trail behind campus antisemitic protests
In the last article the Jerusalem Post actually claims the protests are pro-war
Oren drew parallels between the 1968 anti-war riots and today's campus movements, which he views as pro-war due to their exclusion of Israel.
This shift has notably affected disciplines like American Studies, which have become distinctly anti-American, Oren continued. He also pointed out that even some Jewish academics have joined the anti-Israel chorus, failing to recognize the potential negative consequences for themselves. “They fail to see that this path also ends badly for them.”
The amount of drivel in that article is insane.
Jewish voices divided at City University of New York protest encampment
I will say that this movement has divided not just the nation but also the Jewish community.
There was a group of Orthodox Jews who were supporting the protest. One of them burned his Israeli passport.
I also spoke to a man who said he was a former Israeli soldier, he had been in Gaza, and he disagreed with the protests and was critical of Hamas. He tried to get into this protest but was ejected and police had to escort him to their car. They didn’t arrest him but said it was for his own safety.
Inside this protest, you don’t see division at all. Everybody here is very supportive of this student movement. You can see all the tents, which are increasing, as are the protests. It is a Sunday afternoon and there are a lot of people here.
It was divided before the student protests grew and got in the news (they were there before Columbia got in the spotlight). Plenty articles already months ago about the growing division between younger and older generations of Jews.
And the war goes on
Israeli strikes kills 7, including children, in Gaza City
Seven people, including women and children, have been killed as Israeli warplanes bombed two homes in Gaza City tonight, the Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting.
A Wafa correspondent and medical sources reported that five people, including children and women, were killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli bombing of a home in the west of Gaza City.
Two women were also killed in an Israeli bombing of a home in the al-Sabra neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, Wafa reports, with a number of people still missing under the rubble.
Palestinians who fled Israel’s siege of Gaza City, in the north of the Gaza Strip, have been returning home in recent weeks, as Israel continues to bombard areas it previously told people to evacuate to.
More than a dozen Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Rafah: Medical officials
We are getting reports that Israeli air strikes on three houses in Rafah have killed 13 people and wounded many others.
Hamas media outlets have put the death toll at 15 people.
More to follow…
