Northwestern's President Says He's 'Positive About the Relationship' Between the University and Hamas-Friendly Qatar

Interim Northwestern University president Henry Bienen said Monday that he is "positive about the relationship" between the university and the Hamas-friendly Gulf state of Qatar. That relationship, which Bienen initiated during his first stint leading Northwestern from 1995 to 2009, includes a contract that prohibits students and faculty at the university's Doha campus from criticizing the Qatari regime.

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Northwestern Says Its Qatar Campus Gives Middle Eastern Women a Quality Education. Nearly 40 Percent of Its 2020 Graduates Came From Elite Qatari Families.

Northwestern University has defended its campus in Hamas-friendly Qatar by arguing that it provides Middle Eastern women access to an "elite" education. An outsized share of the campus's graduates, however, are themselves members of the Qatari elite, including the ruling Al Thani family, a new report shared exclusively with the Washington Free Beacon shows.

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CAIR Sues Northwestern, Alleging Anti-Semitism Training a Violation of Civil Rights Act

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is suing Northwestern University on behalf of the school’s Graduate Workers for Palestine, alleging that subjecting students to a mandatory anti-Semitism training violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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Hundreds of Northwestern Students Refuse To Watch Anti-Semitism Training Video

At least 300 students at Northwestern University refused to watch an anti-Semitism training video that the school made mandatory amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on campus anti-Semitism.

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Northwestern Vandals Spray-Paint Hamas Triangles, 'Intifada Now' on Campus Building Housing Holocaust Center

Anti-Semitic vandals used red paint to write "Death to Israel" and draw Hamas triangles on a Northwestern University building that houses the school's Holocaust center as Jewish students observe Passover.

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Trump Admin Freezes Over $1.8 Billion in Federal Funding to Cornell, Northwestern

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1.8 billion in federal funding to Cornell University and Northwestern University amid ongoing Title VI investigations into campus anti-Semitism, a senior administration official reportedly told Fox News.

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Trump Moves To Deport Columbia Hamasnik

Last May, Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil said his status as a foreign national made him "nervous" to participate in the encampment that roiled campus. 

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At Northwestern, NIH Grant Funds Gender Institute That Hosted ‘BIPOC’-Only Academic Program

Last year, the National Institutes of Health sent more than $1 million in taxpayer-funded grants to Northwestern University's Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). At the same time, the institute hosted a summer program for graduate scholars that it offered only to "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and also sexual and gender minorities (SGM)."

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Northwestern University Mandatory Anti-Discrimination Training Pushes Unverified CAIR Data

Northwestern University's mandatory anti-discrimination training relies on unverified data from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that inflate Islamophobic attacks, giving the false impression that those attacks vastly outpace anti-Semitic hate crimes. The training also questions anti-Zionism's ties to Jew-hatred and explicitly addresses "anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian biases," but it doesn't do the same for anti-Israeli or anti-Zionist sentiment.

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Israel To Keep Troops in Lebanon, Northwestern University Law School Defends Pro-Hamas Delinquents, and George Mason Guest Speaker Emboldens Student Radicals

Last month, we broke the news about an Israeli plan to maintain buffer zones indefinitely in Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip. That plan is coming to fruition in Lebanon, our Andrew Tobin reports.  

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