New York City – DA Office: Islamic Charity Funding Anti-Israel, Pro-Iran At NYC Universities

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    New York City – Anti-Israel, pro-Iran university professors are being funded by a shadowy multimillion-dollar Islamic charity based in Manhattan that the feds charge is an illegal front for the repressive Iranian regime.

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    The deep-pocketed Alavi Foundation has aggressively given away hundreds of thousands of dollars to Columbia University and Rutgers University for Middle Eastern and Persian studies programs that employ professors sympathetic to the Iranian dictatorship.

    “We found evidence that the government of Iran really controlled everything about the foundation,” said Adam Kaufmann, investigations chief at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

    Federal law-enforcement authorities are in the midst of seizing up to $650 million in assets from the Alavi Foundation, which they charge funnels money to Iran-supported Islamic schools in the United States and to a syndicate of Iranian spies based in Europe.

    In one of the biggest handouts, the controversial charity donated $100,000 to Columbia University after the Ivy League school agreed to host Iranian leader and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the foundation’s 2007 tax filings obtained by The Post.

    Rutgers professor Hooshang Amirahmadi, former head of the school’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and president of the American-Iranian Council, a nonprofit advocacy group, unabashedly has touted Hezbollah and Hamas as legitimate organizations and not terrorists.

    Between 2005 and 2007, the Alavi Foundation donated $351,600 to the Rutgers Persian language program, a spokesman for the school acknowledged. The university would not comment further.

    Alavi’s Web site says its mission is the “promotion of Islamic culture and Persian language.”

    “This is all about Iran laundering their policies through academe,” said Michael Rubin, an Iran expert at the American Enterprise Institute think tank. “And the ivory tower is prostituting itself for money.”

    But Amirahmadi disagreed. “Grants from Alavi are made to the universities, not to the professors,” he told The Post.

    Columbia spokesman Robert Hornsby said Alavi’s donations rarely topped more than a few thousand dollars and that the $100,000 donation was its largest single gift. Hornsby added that the school was surprised the foundation had direct ties to the Iranian government.

    The Alavi foundation declined comment.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    $650 million! Only G-d know what they could possibly use that money for in this corrupt society.

    columbia lion
    columbia lion
    14 years ago

    Just to clarify: it seems that it was Prof. Richard Bulliet who suggested to Columbia’s President Bollinger (“Prez Bo”) to invite Ahmadinejad in conjunction with the university’s annual week of forums for world leaders. It was only after the event that they received the “donation.” Columbia did not invite Ahmadinejad knowing it will get the money.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    ya its hareblle , and our prasident dont see any problem siting down with them with out pre conditions , poor americans .