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November 27, 2023

How Palestinian Propaganda Took Over College Campuses

And how Europe and American charities funded it.

Mandel mentions Qatari funding as one possible reason for the predominance of anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses. Gary Wexler, drawing on his own experience, identifies another piece of the puzzle. In the 1990s, when the peace process spurred hopes of Jews and Palestinians beating their swords into plowshares, the Ford Foundation—one of the world’s wealthiest private charities, founded by the notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford and his son Edsel—began doling out money to various Israeli and Palestinian organizations, and hired Wexler to help these groups with marketing. He describes what he saw:

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