Northwestern’s Contract With Qatar Forbids School From Criticizing Regime

Appalling. American universities, once the envy of the world, have abandoned every tenet of academic excellence to prostitute themselves to the world’s worst degenerates and destroyers. This is who educating our young. Every American betrayed.

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You want these fiends destroying your child’s fine mind?

Qatar is arguably the preeminent sponsor of terror in the world today. Qatar embraces Hamas and shelters their leaders in the lap of luxury. Qatar funded ISIS.

The tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar – one of the wealthiest countries in the world on a per capita basis, thanks to enormous oil and natural gas reserves – has become one of the most harmful influences in the Middle East and a key supporter of terrorist groups.

“Qatar is a human rights abusing regime. They enslave migrant workers…caused thousands of them to die. They support the Taliban. They support Hamas. They support terrorism. They have an egregious human rights record.” (more)

The ruling dynasty of Qatar, the house of Al Thani, invests its massive fossil fuel profits to promote its political and theological agenda around the world. It invests in major Western properties, Hollywood studios like Miramax, global news broadcasters like Al Jazeera, terror organizations like ISIS and Hamas, and, most curiously, in American K-12 education.

Qatar’s funding for Islamist terrorist organizations all over the world is an open secret known to every global intelligence agency, including the CIA. It was exposed by Wikileaks, which clearly showed that funds from Qatar were transferred to al-Qaida. Qatar also funds the terrorist movements opposing the Assad regime in Syria, such as the Al-Nusra Front, encourages anti-Egyptian terrorism in the Sinai Peninsula and within Egypt itself, and is involved in Islamic terrorism in Africa and other locations. It accompanies its involvement in terrorism targeting Israel and Egypt (through the Muslim Brotherhood) with vicious and inflammatory propaganda on its Al-Jazeera TV channel.

Qatar also spends millions of dollars supporting the Islamic Movement in Israel, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood headed by Sheikh Ra’ed Salah. The Islamic Movement is responsible for ongoing acts of provocation on the Temple Mount and in Judea and Samaria, and incites the entire Islamic world against Israel, claiming that the Jews are trying to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and replace it with the Jewish Temple. The incitement continued even as the Islamic Movement’s sister movement, Hamas, fired rockets at Jerusalem and endangered both the mosques on the Temple Mount and Jerusalem’s sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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As Qatar’s representative, the Islamic Movement, which has not yet been outlawed in Israel, contributed to Hamas what it could during Operation Protective Edge by instigating riots, blocking roads and seeking to foment a third intifada which, according to the plan, would be joined by Israeli Arabs to augment the deaths of thousands of Israelis killed by rockets and the mass murders through the attack tunnels planned for the eve of the Jewish New Year. (more)

Northwestern’s Contract With Qatar Forbids School From Criticizing Regime

House interview with ousted Northwestern University president Michael Schill reveals university employees, students, faculty—even family members—are required to submit to Qatari law, which prohibits criticism of the ruling family

By: Collin Anderson, Washington Free beacon, September 5, 2025

Northwestern University’s contract with Hamas-allied Qatar, where the school operates a satellite campus, includes a clause that effectively forbids students and faculty from criticizing the Qatari regime, a House Committee on Education and Workforce interview with soon-to-be-former Northwestern University president Michael Schill revealed.

The interview, which includes an extensive discussion of Northwestern’s contract with the regime-controlled Qatar Foundation, reveals the speech limitations to which universities submit when they operate in the Gulf state.

In the August 5 interview, committee staffers introduced “a portion from Northwestern’s agreement with the Qatar Foundation,” the nonprofit organization chaired by the emir of Qatar’s mother. The foundation bankrolls the presence of Northwestern and other American universities in the Gulf state. The agreement includes a clause stipulating that “NU, NU-Q, and their respective employees, students, faculty, families, contractors and agents, shall be subject to the applicable laws and regulations of the State of Qatar, and shall respect the cultural, religious and social customs of the State of Qatar.”

Qatar’s penal code criminalizes criticism of its government and flag and bans the posting of online content that the Qatari regime deems harmful. A Jordanian media manager for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup was sentenced to five years in prison after voicing concern over the regime’s treatment of migrant workers. A Northwestern Qatar student, meanwhile, was “arrested over a tweet,” according to the House interview.

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Asked during that interview whether Northwestern Qatar operates “in accordance with all Qatari laws,” Schill responded, “I believe it has to.” Asked whether that “includes Qatari censorship laws,” Schill said, “I don’t know the answer to that as a legal matter.” He also said he had “no idea” whether Qatar “would allow a Northwestern faculty member or student to publicly criticize the regime.”

The revelation provides a window into the control Qatar exerts over Northwestern. Aside from the contract clause, Schill confirmed in his House interview that anti-Semitism training offered at Northwestern’s main campus is not offered in Qatar.

“I don’t know what the reason would be” for that disparity, Schill said.

House investigators also pressed Schill about emails sent by Qatar Foundation staffers to the dean of Northwestern Qatar. One message, sent two weeks after Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, provides talking points on “diplomatic role and mediation efforts in Palestine/Gaza and Afghanistan – along with reactions from international politicians.”

A second email sent on Oct. 12 from a Qatar Foundation staffer named “Francisco”—an apparent reference to Francisco Marmolejo, the foundation’s president of higher education—includes a statement from the foundation’s CEO. “Finally, let there be no doubt about this – QF always has and always will stand with Palestine,” the statement concludes. It was sent not just to Northwestern but to the deans of all U.S. universities in Doha. Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Weill Cornell Medicine all operate campuses there.

Northwestern opened its Qatar campus in 2008. Since then, Schill testified, Qatar has provided the school with $737 million. “Basically 90 percent” of that money “covers direct costs of the Qatar campus,” he said. The rest benefits Northwestern’s U.S. campus, funding things like “indirect costs and overhead” and a “quasi-endowment” at the School of Communications. Schill called that financial benefit “meager.”

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