In this eye-opening episode, Malcolm and Simone delve into the disturbing connection between Qatar's funding of US universities and the alarming rise of antisemitism on college campuses. They discuss how Qatar, a major sponsor of Hamas, has become the largest state donor to American higher education, and how this financial influence has led to a suppression of free speech and an increase in anti-Israel rhetoric. The couple also examines the recent attacks on Israel by Hamas, the dehumanizing treatment of Jewish students at universities like Columbia and Harvard, and the concerning statements made by professors and activists celebrating violence against Israelis. Throughout the conversation, Malcolm and Simone shed light on the geopolitical complexities of the Middle East, the role of authoritarian governments in spreading antisemitism, and the importance of defending civilization against barbarism.

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00 ] Hello, Simone! It is wonderful to be here today, and we are going to be doing an episode today which I think really elevates why the disintermediation of the traditional news system To online vloggers, because this is something you see increasingly in terms of how are people getting their information about the world

Simone Collins: is

Malcolm Collins: actually very important to getting an honest understanding of reality so long as you're choosing the right people to listen to.

And this episode is going to be the type of thing. That you would never see on one of the mainstream news stations. And I'm just gonna give the top notes right now for people who are like, okay, I get the story. I'm gonna click off before we go into too much detail. But it is the fact that Hamas, one of the largest donors to Hamas, like one of the largest funders of Hamas, the people who started this war in Israel, okay?

They are also the largest state donor [00:01:00 ] to the most U. S. 's large universities or to the university system in the U. S. Iran? I know, right? That's what you would think. No. I don't think they lost in Iran. What's, what? It is Qatar or Qatar, depending on how you look at it. F*****g obsequious you are because I always hate when people play little words with oh, you're not saying Qatar, right?

I call it American

Simone Collins: accent. So it's

Malcolm Collins: Qatar

As a quick side note, if you were wondering, who is the bigger supporter of Hamas, Iran or Qatar? Qatar has given Hamas over a $1.8 billion. And I ran gives them Something like a hundred million to 350 million. That's what they gave them last year, a year. so in terms of just financial costs, Qatar is the bigger supporter if Hamas, but I ran plays a big role in giving them lots of military supplies and training.

So in terms of integration, was there political elite?

I ran is a bigger supporter.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, so people [00:02:00 ] are like wait, I didn't know this. Why you why didn't I know this? Why didn't I know that this? They heavily funded Hamas. Why did I not know that they were also the largest state donor to U. S. university systems? And this matters downstream when you are looking at the university policy that is allowing this rampant antisemitism on campuses.

Would you like to know more?

Malcolm Collins: Because a lot of people they're like, Oh, I'm going to not donate to my university because of this. Like a lot of, Jewish families are saying that right now and stuff like that. And what they don't realize that they're like, why are universities still doing this? From a financial perspective, why are they still doing this?

Being so neutral. Why is it when you had, there was this great moment where Gay the head of one of these universities I'm gay. Yeah, the head of Harvard at the time.

Simone Collins: Who then subsequently had some plagiarism problems. And yeah. So she

Malcolm Collins: responded that hateful speech is at odds with Harvard's values and that calling for the genocide of Jews is anti Semitic, but when pressed on whether it violates the code of Essex, she said, it can be depending on the context.

[00:03:00 ] So genocide, demanding genocide of an ethnic group, specifically when it's Jews. Of course, this wouldn't matter with anyone else at the top universities in the U S why is that? Maybe it violates our code of ethics. I'm not going to make any hard calls on this right now. So why are they having this position?

And it makes a lot more sense when you look at where the money is coming from for these institutions, or at least a very large we'll get into the size of it, how they get the money into the universities and everything like that as the thing goes on, but I just want to, get it out there.

Simone Collins: So I'm so confused about Qatar still, though, which, by the way, American accent, we would rather say something that rhymes with guitar rather than cutter.

Like someone who's trying to continue. I'm so confused about Qatar because Qatar is majority Sunni. Whereas is Iran is primarily Shia. Are they aligned? Are they partners? Or do they just, I think they like

Malcolm Collins: underestimate the level of anti Semitism in the Muslim world. And this is what I'm really into.

They just really hate Jews. So this [00:04:00 ] is what I'm, and I need to go back here because it's not just that they hate Jews. It's also part of the power hierarchy in this world. So there's, I really want to go into the stats here, but I'm also going to provide some like overall framing. Okay. Okay. So people who may not know, and I'm like, normal news would not report this.

And they're like, why would normal news not report this? And even I feel a little. Honestly, uncomfortable talking about it because I have a lot of Qatari friends. If you are like wealthy and successful you like in, in your social groups, you are going to have Qatari friends and Qataris, there's only something like 300, 000 Qataris in the world.

So it's a very small, the ethnic population of Qatar is incredibly small. Most of the people there are foreign laborers are basically slaves. And so what that means is The, if you have Qatari friends, that means you have friends in the Qatari government or that are related to the Qatari government, right?

And so when you're talking about any of the heads of these major [00:05:00 ] news stations or something like that, there are parties where they're going to have to go to later that day and they are going to look like it's not even like a conspiracy thing. They're just going to look like really bad if they are putting shade on guitar and they may not get deals.

They may not get hired by companies because, they have so much money they have their fingers in a bit of everything because of that big natural gas vein that they found in guitar. A lot of people think it's oil. Oil is not why guitars are, it's just natural gas. But sorry, I don't want to get into the geopolitics here, but the other thing I want to talk about is we have a lot of friends who are Emirati and Qatari and and I'm not like trying to conflate the two countries, but what I'm pointing out here is these are like the nicest of the Muslim states generally to like the U.

S., like in terms of friendly policy. Saudi Arabia, we're also pretty close with, but, occasionally we have some friction there. And Saudi Arabia is much more like a brutal dictatorship. So like Americans can understand, but with Qatar and the UAE, they've done a pretty good job with their image.

In fact, speaking of I am about to go to my reunion at [00:06:00 ] Stanford business school. And one of the guys I am going to be meeting there is an old friend of mine who I actually really as a person, great person. Khalid Alamari. And he has like over 4 million subscribers on YouTube.

So he would

Simone Collins: always come up to you and

Malcolm Collins: be like,

Simone Collins: Malcolm, what's my name? It's call it,

Malcolm Collins: call it, I'll call him Colleen. Okay. Whatever. That's why it's still funny. It is. And I always mispronounce his name. But he's a big shot now, and he actually did a tour, went around the UAE with him and so I went to check his channel recently and I think this just shows what we're talking about when you're in this bubble.

So his latest video that has over a quarter million views is Surprising delivery drivers with their families. So this is supposed to be like a feel good movie. Where it's ha, like a surprising, I don't know. Troops with their families or something like that.

And if you're an Emirati and you watch this is going to look just like a feel [00:07:00 ] good movie to you. But if you are an American and you watch this, you're like, Wait a second, why would delivery drivers have not seen their families in a long time? And it almost looks like a slave owner in the South being like, like Mr.

Beast, but in like the slave owning South. And he comes in, he goes, ha, this guy thought we sold his family to the, to another owner, but I'm going to trick him. And when he gets home, they'll all be there. And then confetti will fly behind the doors. And the guy like, comes home devastated, and he's genuinely having this emotional moment because he sees his family that he thought was sold off, and the guy's dancing around all blimpy style in front of the door with confetti I'm such a good person.

Here's the plan. We've told the riders that they're just going to be shooting a commercial for noon minutes today But little did they know That they're going to be delivering to someone special.