Lawmaker Fears Ivy League Universities Infiltrated by Pro-Iran, Anti-Israel Foundation

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A U.S. congressman, Rep. Dan Donovan from New York, has requested the Department of Education and pertinent committees in Congress launch an investigation into the Alavi Foundation to find out if that organization’s dollars were used to advance a pro-Iran, anti-Israel message in some of America’s top universities.

Grants were made from this foundation to Harvard, Columbia, Princeton and the like. And this is the same foundation that was just found to have been illegally managing 650 Fifth Ave. on behalf of Iran by a federal jury in June.

The Alawi Foundation, unbenownst to the thousands of people who walk by its Manhattan offices daily, was just found guilty of managing its business on behalf of Iran.

And millions of its dollars have gone to dozens of U.S. colleges and universities?

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What’s unknown is if any strings have been attached to these grants.

The New York Post has the story:

Federal authorities should investigate how a charitable foundation with ties to Iran steered millions of dollars to dozens of American universities including Columbia, Harvard and Princeton, according to Rep. Dan Donovan.

Critics charge the grants from the Alavi Foundation helped fund pro-Tehran and anti-Israel professors.

“I’ll be contacting the secretary of education . . . about this matter immediately,” said Donovan (R-SI).

“Did this foundation attempt to subvert American academic institutions? . . . We need to investigate this, and universities have to do a better job of vetting their donors.”

Wonder how many professors at these universities adjusted their rhetoric to become soft on Tehran, tough on Israel?

From Campus Reform:

Some critics of the Alavi Foundation argue that group used the money in an effort to place pro-Iran professors in U.S. institutions.

In addition to questionable contributions in higher education, the charity also made headlines in late June following a court ruling determining that it had violated economic sanctions against Iran, after which U.S. authorities said that they were ready to seize a New York City skyscraper owned by the group.

“For over a decade, hiding in plain sight, this 36-story Manhattan office tower secretly served as a front for the Iranian government and as a gateway for millions of dollars to be funneled to Iran in clear violation of U.S. sanctions laws,” acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said at the time.

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

Politicians, bureaucrats and media are on payroll of Muslim Lobbyists to further their agenda.

Like Dems selling out American interests for thousands thrown their way by iranian Lobbyists to support nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

The DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Making IRAN Great Again!

TDD
TD
6 years ago

INVESTIGATE, EXPOSE, and get rid of these Jihadi fanboys.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago

So-called institutes of higher ed-ju-ma-cation selling their souls and America’s future for money to a perverse system of indoctrination. It worked well with atheism in the ’60’s and ’70’s; now add Islam to the dinner bucket.

kh
kh
6 years ago

The Muslim Student Association is a religious organization dedicated to establishing Islamic societies on college campuses in the United States.

It has more chapters on American college campuses than the Democrat and Republican parties combined.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The problem is becoming Constitutional, islam styles itself as a religion and a political entity, it actively seeks to destroy the democratic process, free elections and institute the dictatorship of shari’a which includes an official state religion, islam. There are some serious issues coming up, civil war is not to be ruled out as islam aggressively and violently asserts itself over America.

just1guywhocares
just1guywhocares
6 years ago

They just found this out?

Simba
Simba
6 years ago

After the many humiliations in the erstwhile USSR , the Eastern Europe and the Collapse of the Berlin Wall,the Left has penetrated the media and academics.Nothing new.

Sherry Pennington
Sherry Pennington
6 years ago

I don’t think there is any doubt!!! The government needs to expose what most people already know, then clean house and prosecute.

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