The congressional Republicans who spearheaded investigations into antisemitism on US college campuses are turning their focus on the Qatari government, one of the largest donors to American universities over the past decade.
The line of inquiry, led by Republicans on the US House’s education committee, focuses on suggestions among conservative activists that Qatari funding has influenced attitudes towards Israel at elite US universities, which have come under intense scrutiny since Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
Virginia Foxx, the conservative North Carolina Republican who chairs the committee, has asked three Ivy League schools — Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia — to disclose any Qatari donations since January 2021.