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Qatar Used Its Influence to Shape Universities’ Narrative About October 7th

Qatar demanded that all US universities with campuses in Qatar remain aligned with the government of Qatar after the October 7^thterror attacks. Washington Free Beacon: In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, the Hamas-friendly regime in Qatar demanded that American universities operating campuses in Doha “be aligned and in touch” when it came to their official communications, emails released by the House Education Committee show. On the same day, the dean of Northwestern University’s campus in Qatar (NU-Q) refused to sign on to a statement from his colleagues in the United States criticizing an NU-Q professor who downplayed the attack. The emails are part of a report released Tuesday by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, “How Campuses Became Hotbeds: The Rise of Radical Antisemitism on College Campuses.” The messages show that, on Oct. 17, 2023, the government-controlled Qatar Foundation held a call with representatives of American universities in Doha to discuss “how it is going” in the wake of the attack, according to a readout of the call sent from NU-Q associate dean James Shaw to campus dean Marwan Michael Kraidy. A Qatar Foundation official, President of Higher Education Francisco Marmolejo, requested “information sharing and no surprises,” Shaw wrote. (Washington Free Beacon)