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Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations. He has written and edited 22 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews; After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine; and Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps.

Its entanglement with Qatar, where it has a campus in Doha, is deep, longstanding and influential. And that’s a problem.
He is pulling the strings in the Mideast and still dreams of cutting a deal with Tehran. He tried before. He’ll fail again.
Contrary to the image of a population being erased, demographics show otherwise and contradict rumors of famine.
The stakes today are higher, but so are the consequences of inaction.
When it comes to Israel, the steering of Washington policy has seemingly gone into reverse.
This isn’t another business transaction; it’s a confrontation with a theocratic regime that sees nuclear weapons as Divine instruments of victory.
Doha has poured nearly $6 billion into American universities since 1981, making it the largest Arab donor in U.S. higher education.
The administration has opened dozens of investigations into universities to determine their compliance with civil-rights laws protecting Jews, but he gutted the department responsible for conducting those reviews.
Universities, which are funded by students, parents and taxpayers, should ask whether purse strings more important than the people they are supposed to be educating, as well as keeping safe.
If Nicholas Kristof genuinely cared about the fate of Christians in the Middle East, then why hasn’t he reported from Saudi Arabia, where practicing the religion is illegal?
The tension between the desire not to appear as suppressors of debate and the need to confront hate speech seems torturous to so many.
The organization pretends to represent Jewish interests, but its actions tell a very different story.