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Opinion: How Qatar Helped Create Today’s Socialist Movement
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Washington Jewish Week
Much has been written about how Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf state with documented ties to Muslim Brotherhood figures and networks, has poured billions into American universities.
Moreover, schools receiving substantial money from Qatar have seen significantly higher levels of anti-Israel activism and related incidents.
Social media accelerates this process.
The ideological frameworks incubated in Qatari-funded Middle East studies programs and campus centers did not stay contained to seminar rooms.
The Middle East question has thus been incorporated into the broader social justice movement of the past decade, which is organized loosely around social media rather than a central authority.