Pretty hard hitting, and I would suspect that it's accurate:

Removing U.S. Campuses from Qatar

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A&M's Qatari connection was borne of 1990s-era fantasies about opening up the rest of the world through increased commerce, information flows, and global prosperity. It was an extreme expression of the "plight-of-humanity" justification for such partnerships. But it eventually became evident that the Qatari regime supports Hamasand that its ethos could corrupt our institutions. The 1990s hopes have given way to doubts that partnerships with Hamas will lead to peace. American universities have moved in the direction of Chinese authoritarianism and Qatari-style anti-Israeli stances much more than American universities have changed those areas of the world. Foreign agents are using our supposedly open university system to put their thumbs on the scale of American priorities.

A&M's Board reacted to public pressure by giving a transparently false reason for pulling out of Qatar. Its unwillingness to be forthright should not prevent the necessary re-evaluation of the role American universities play in broader regime-level policy. This is the time to question issues surrounding foreign funding, foreign students, and foreign influenceand to continue a re-evaluation of the broad 1990s consensus.

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Good.

Let's toss this idiot too, while we're at it.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-am-professor-teaches-hamas-is-charity-organization/

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Sena Karasipahi has worked at Texas A&M since 2006 and teaches courses in the Department of International Affairs. Students enrolled in different courses Karasipahi teaches claim that she has referred to Hamas as a "charity organization" and a "humanitarian group."

Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that advocates for Israel's destruction. The U.S. State Department designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997.

A student taking the course "Political Islam and Jihad" said Karasipahi prohibits students from recording her lectures or taking pictures of slideshow presentations.

Online reviews on RateMyProfessors mention that the course's information is inaccurate and "ideologically slanted," with students alleging that she does not provide adequate sources.

The student said she was taught that "Israel helped create Hamas like the U.S. helped create Al Qaeda." Students also allege Karasipahi has denied the Armenian genocide in her classes.

The student shared her experience with Texas Scorecard, saying, "She says it's not a religious war and has even claimed that Hamas cannot be anti-Semitic because they are semites themselves. There are a lot of students that agree with her."

The student continued, "It's been really difficult to listen to. It's scary because students trust their professors. That's what I want to do when I come to school."

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This article was published 1 week after Hamas' terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.

Why can't we open campuses in countries that don't hate us?

techno-ag said:

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Why can't we open campuses in countries that don't hate us?

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Because they don't have billions of dollars to donate.

techno-ag said:

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Why can't we open campuses in countries that don't hate us?

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Why does TEXAS A&M need a campus in any state or country not named Texas?

Muy said:

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techno-ag said:

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Why can't we open campuses in countries that don't hate us?

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Why does TEXAS A&M need a campus in any state or country not named Texas?

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I could see having campuses in hostile countries as launching points for espionage, covert ops and black bag ops. In fact, I kind of like it.

However, it is shocking the way Academia capitulated to the Left and they became so overwhelmingly anti-Israel and antisemitic. And, to the extent that foreign students/professors in American universities in the U.S.; and, American Universities in other countries, have contributed to that - needs to be evaluated and reported.

Eh, the premise of Texas A&M or University of Texas, the two undisputed heavyweights of O&G research and suppliers of personnel, operating a branch in a part of the world dominated by the O&G industry makes sense in a vacuum. Introducing the variable of a religious genocidal death cult into the mix changes things just a tad.

BadMoonRisin said:

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Good.

Let's toss this idiot too, while we're at it.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-am-professor-teaches-hamas-is-charity-organization/

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Sena Karasipahi has worked at Texas A&M since 2006 and teaches courses in the Department of International Affairs. Students enrolled in different courses Karasipahi teaches claim that she has referred to Hamas as a "charity organization" and a "humanitarian group."

Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that advocates for Israel's destruction. The U.S. State Department designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997.

A student taking the course "Political Islam and Jihad" said Karasipahi prohibits students from recording her lectures or taking pictures of slideshow presentations.

Online reviews on RateMyProfessors mention that the course's information is inaccurate and "ideologically slanted," with students alleging that she does not provide adequate sources.

The student said she was taught that "Israel helped create Hamas like the U.S. helped create Al Qaeda." Students also allege Karasipahi has denied the Armenian genocide in her classes.

The student shared her experience with Texas Scorecard, saying, "She says it's not a religious war and has even claimed that Hamas cannot be anti-Semitic because they are semites themselves. There are a lot of students that agree with her."

The student continued, "It's been really difficult to listen to. It's scary because students trust their professors. That's what I want to do when I come to school."

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This article was published 1 week after Hamas' terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.

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Back in the 1980s and 90s, Arab money flowed to Middle East Studies Centers all over the US. It has basically toiled a valid field of inquiry by spreading false or misleading information disguised as scholarship.
https://www.meforum.org/61807/foreign-funds-subvert-american-universities

Malibu said:

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Eh, the premise of Texas A&M or University of Texas, the two undisputed heavyweights of O&G research and suppliers of personnel, operating a branch in a part of the world dominated by the O&G industry makes sense in a vacuum. Introducing the variable of a religious genocidal death cult into the mix changes things just a tad.

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Come on, man. It's a religion of peace.

BadMoonRisin said:

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Good.

Let's toss this idiot too, while we're at it.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-am-professor-teaches-hamas-is-charity-organization/

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Sena Karasipahi has worked at Texas A&M since 2006 and teaches courses in the Department of International Affairs. Students enrolled in different courses Karasipahi teaches claim that she has referred to Hamas as a "charity organization" and a "humanitarian group."

Hamas is an Islamist militant movement that advocates for Israel's destruction. The U.S. State Department designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997.

A student taking the course "Political Islam and Jihad" said Karasipahi prohibits students from recording her lectures or taking pictures of slideshow presentations.

Online reviews on RateMyProfessors mention that the course's information is inaccurate and "ideologically slanted," with students alleging that she does not provide adequate sources.

The student said she was taught that "Israel helped create Hamas like the U.S. helped create Al Qaeda." Students also allege Karasipahi has denied the Armenian genocide in her classes.

The student shared her experience with Texas Scorecard, saying, "She says it's not a religious war and has even claimed that Hamas cannot be anti-Semitic because they are semites themselves. There are a lot of students that agree with her."

The student continued, "It's been really difficult to listen to. It's scary because students trust their professors. That's what I want to do when I come to school."

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This article was published 1 week after Hamas' terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.

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There are ways around recording bans. Leaving a cell phone on record and sitting up front is an easy way.

How far we have fallen if we cant insist that this "professor" gets shown the door.

She equated Hamas with Al-Queda, and then justified the actions of both. She is a terrorist sympathizer. Full-stop. There's no weak handed pearl clutching about Palestinians and conflating the two -- she said Hamas was a humanitarian aid group....AFTER they murdered, raped, burned, baked, women and children....

A short time ago in our country, that used to be an offense worthy of termination. Not anymore, it seems.

She does not belong at our school. Period. There's no "oh well, when you disagree, you grow" bull**** coming from a person who says that 9/11 OR October 7th was justified.

BadMoonRisin said:

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How far we have fallen if we cant insist that this "professor" gets shown the door.

She equated Hamas with Al-Queda, and then justified the actions of both. She is a terrorist sympathizer. Full-stop. There's no weak handed pearl clutching about Palestinians and conflating the two -- she said Hamas was a humanitarian aid group....AFTER they murdered, raped, burned, baked, women and children....

A short time ago in our country, that used to be an offense worthy of termination. Not anymore, it seems.

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Remember that professor who called for the genocide of white people? I think it's a common characteristic of liberal profs these days.

We don't talk about racist ******* former-professor Tommy Curry by name anymore, because we don't want people to know that Tommy Curry was a race-baiting piece of **** professor at Texas A&M University (or that our former President Young defended said racist either -- due to demands from the rest of our faculty of comm...err professors, we definitely cant talk about that).

It'd be a real shame for people that weren't aware about Tommy Curry that he is an indeed racist person who deserves no voice at our esteemed school.

It would be a real, REAL shame now, not just a fake shame, to remember what Tommy Curry said to earn a label of being a racist:

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In a podcast from 2012 that has resurfaced, Texas A&M philosophy professor Tommy Curry made comments referencing the killing of white people in context to defending the black community and as a response to racism.

"When we have this conversation about violence or killing white people it has to be looked at in the kind of this historical turn," Curry said. "And the fact that we've had no one address, like how relevant and how solidified this kind of tradition is for black people saying look, in order to be equal, in order to be liberated, some white people may have to die."

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All of these would be really, really unfortunate to remember and ruminate on now....

akm91 said:

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techno-ag said:

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Why can't we open campuses in countries that don't hate us?

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Because they don't have billions of dollars to donate.

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"The love of money is the root of all evil". This without a moral compass is dangerous. America loves money and America has lost its moral compass.

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A&M's Qatari connection was borne of 1990s-era fantasies about opening up the rest of the world through increased commerce, information flows, and global prosperity.

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Vision 2020 was about colonizing Qatar with our version of western enlightenment which has only existed for a couple hundred years.

A&M effectively established a mission there under the idea that western democracy was superior and our mission was proselytize western values by somehow adopting the west's way of doing things the world would be better off.

This failed in Iraq and Afghanistan and everywhere else it was tried. A&M Qatar fell into that trap.

Now 20-years later, we've completely reversed course and recalled the missionaries as 'de-colonization' is now all the rage.

This is the inherent problem with putting career educators in charge of stuff, as their desire to latch on the next big thing often times doesn't match up with reality.

People caught a whiff of Vision 2020 when it first came out and warned of what we are seeing play out today, but those people were ignored and discounted as old curmudgeons.

BadMoonRisin said:

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How far we have fallen if we cant insist that this "professor" gets shown the door.

She equated Hamas with Al-Queda, and then justified the actions of both. She is a terrorist sympathizer. Full-stop. There's no weak handed pearl clutching about Palestinians and conflating the two -- she said Hamas was a humanitarian aid group....AFTER they murdered, raped, burned, baked, women and children....

A short time ago in our country, that used to be an offense worthy of termination. Not anymore, it seems.

She does not belong at our school. Period. There's no "oh well, when you disagree, you grow" bull**** coming from a person who says that 9/11 OR October 7th was justified.

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I'd say she doesn't belong in this country, but of course, she is the type that political types of a particular persuasion just love.