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\"\"<\/a>The Roots of Campus Hatred<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Bari Weiss <\/strong>and<\/em><\/span> Oliver Wiseman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Why have noxious ideas flourished at U.S. colleges? We have some answers.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Where did all of this hatred come from?<\/span><\/p>\n

We keep coming back to this question as we\u2019ve tried to make sense of the world since October 7. We\u2019ve asked it in relation to Hamas\u2019s nihilistic worldview as well as in relation to the group\u2019s apologists in the West. The answers we\u2019ve offered so far involve ideology, geopolitics, education, technology, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n

In many ways, the epicenter of so much of the hatred directed against Israel and Jews in the last month has been the college campus. Every day brings another example of this dispiriting trend. Today in The Free Press, two pieces untangle the roots of the alarming rise of campus antisemitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Campus extremists need no encouragement from outside forces. But today Bari writes about a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute, which offers a look at the actors far outside of the university campus who have poured fuel on the ideological fire. Among the report\u2019s shocking findings is that \u201cat least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the full investigation and report here:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is Campus Rage Fueled by Middle Eastern Money?<\/h1>\n

According to a new report, at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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Since Hamas\u2019s October 7 massacre, it has been hard to miss the explosion of antisemitic hate that has gripped college campuses across the country. At Cornell<\/a>, a student posted<\/a> a call \u201cto follow [Jews] home and slit their throats,\u201d and a professor said<\/a> the terror attack \u201cenergized\u201d and \u201cexhilarated\u201d him. At Harvard, a mob of students besieged<\/a> an Israeli student, surrounding him as they bellowed \u201cshame, shame, shame.\u201d At dozens of other campuses, students gathered to celebrate Hamas. <\/span><\/p>\n

The response from school administrations has been alarming. With few exceptions, in the immediate aftermath of October 7, university presidents issued equivocal statements about the initial attack. Some professors even celebrated<\/a> it. And the focus<\/a> on the part of administration bureaucrats has been on protecting<\/a> the students tearing down posters and being shamed for doing so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where did all of this hatred come from is a question worth pondering. As Rachel Fish<\/a> and others<\/a> have documented<\/a>, for several decades a toxic worldview\u2014morally relativist, anti-Israel, and anti-American\u2014has been incubating in \u201carea studies\u201d departments and social theory programs at elite universities. Whole narratives have been constructed to dehumanize Israelis and brand Israel as a \u201cwhite, colonial project\u201d to be \u201cresisted.\u201d The students you see in the videos circulating online have been marinating in this ideology, which can be defined best by what it\u2019s against: everything Western.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many are rightly questioning how it got this bad. How did university leaders come to eulogize, rather than put a stop to, campus hate rallies and antisemitic intimidation? Why are campus leaders now papering over antisemitism? How could institutions supposedly committed to liberal values be such hotbeds of antisemitism and anti-Israel activism?<\/span><\/p>\n

In large part, it is a story of the power of ideas\u2014in this case, terrible ones\u2014and how rapidly they can spread. But it is also a story of an influence campaign by actors far outside of the university campus aimed at pouring fuel on a fire already raging inside.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve known for some time about the links between anti-Israel campus agitators, like Students for Justice in Palestine, and shady off-campus<\/a> anti-Israel activist networks. <\/span><\/p>\n

But thanks to the work of the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI<\/a>), a nonprofit research center, we now have a clearer picture of the financial forces at play at a higher, institutional level.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, after months of research, the NCRI released a report<\/a> (comprising four separate studies) following the money. The report finds that at least 200 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undisclosed contributions from foreign regimes, many of which are authoritarian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, while correlation is not causation, they found that the number of reported antisemitic incidents on a given campus has a meaningful relationship to whether that university has received funding (disclosed and undisclosed) from regimes, or entities tied to regimes, in the Middle East. <\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, authors of the report write, \u201ca massive influx of foreign, concealed donations to American institutions of higher learning, much of it from authoritarian regimes with notable support from Middle Eastern sources, reflects or supports heightened levels of intolerance towards Jews, open inquiry and free expression.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The NCRI report found that:<\/span><\/p>\n