Kevin Kiley: “America's universities have long been the place where for better or for worse cultural trends tend to begin and then…”

“America's universities have long been the place where for better or for worse cultural trends tend to begin and then spread throughout the rest of the country. Unfortunately, in recent years, it has been for worse. An ethos of censorship took hold first in American universities before spreading to tech companies throughout our broader culture and into the government itself. Of course we saw most vividly on university campuses the absolutely appalling scenes of anti-Semitism that sadly also became part of our broader problem for the rest of the country over the last few years and even before that. America's adversaries, noticing this phenomenon, have decided that targeting our universities is a way to weaken the United States. Infiltrating our universities is a way to influence our broader institutions and to influence public opinion. You see, for example, a congressional investigation found that there were nearly $40 million in contracts with the CCP or CCP-linked organizations. This is just what we know about. Institutions have accepted billions in anonymous foreign funds without any transparency or accountability. There was even a recent study from the Institute for the Global Study of Anti-Semitism and Policy showing how this has infiltrated K-12 classrooms as well as funding from Qatar ended up at Brown University which developed anti- Israel curricula that then went to 8,000 K-12 schools throughout the entire country.…”