Top American universities — including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Northwestern — have received billions of dollars in donations from countries such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, which consistently top the foreign donors’ list (although institutional reporting of foreign funds has been found inadequate).

Since 2016, even entities in the “State of Palestine” gifted at least $4.5 million to U.S. universities. The unnamed Palestinian donors also made gifts to Harvard of $275,000, $775,000, and $525,000 in 2017, 2018, and 2019 respectively. While reports do not explicitly state how the money was spent, a solid guess is support for the “Palestinian Territories” concentration at the university’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. There, students are exposed to tendentious falsehoods such as that Israel is “deliberately using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in Gaza,” committing genocide against the Palestinians, and wielding tools of “Zionist colonialism” to achieve ethno-supremacy.

Another recently established program at Harvard, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, is funded by Birzeit University in the West Bank. This pro-Hamas university seeks to end “Israeli settler colonialism.” The Palestine Program at Harvard, which “utilizes a decolonial framework in program development, leadership, and engagement,” has produced such papers as “Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health: insights from settler colonialism and racial capitalism” and “HRW: Israel hospital attacks and limits on aid in Gaza should be investigated as war crimes.”