Jimbo’s buyout funded by donations from terrorist supporting Qatar

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In recent years, Qatar have been the largest investor in universities. It, too, has an image problem as a funder and supporter of terrorist groups – Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood – and the home of the rabidly anti-Israel anti-American Al Jazeera television network.[8] Qatar has also hoped to solicit help from the United States to end the embargo against it imposed by other Gulf countries. Universities have been willing enablers. College presidents, whose jobs depend more on their ability to raise money than their ability to educate students, see dollar signs when they look to the Middle East and have been prospecting for petrodollars for decades.

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Given the total of its contributions, it is not surprising the largest gifts and contracts have come from Qatar. In fact, of the top 25, all but two (from the UAE) came from Qatar. The largest was a $151 million contract reported in July 2020 to cover the budget for the establishment and operation of Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar. In the six previous years, Qatar signed contracts with Cornell each year for the peculiar amount of $99,999,999. Other large transactions with Qatar included $88 million to Texas A&M for a 10-year contract (purpose unspecified); $84 million and $77 million to Carnegie Mellon (and $74,130,684 per year from 2016 to 2019); and seven contracts worth more than $50 million each to Cornell

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