Northwestern President’s Exit Is Linked to “Terrorist-Harboring Qatar”

WSJ also takes Hamas host’s cash

Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican of Utah, grilled Northwestern University President Michael Schill last year about what Owens called Northwestern’s ties to “terrorist-harboring Qatar.”

The announcement today by the president of Northwestern University, Michael Schill, that he’d resign after only three years makes him only the latest university president to step down after botching the response to antisemitism on campus and to related congressional hearings. Harvard President Claudine Gay, Columbia President Minouche Shafik and interim president Katrina Armstrong, and University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill also failed to survive.

The House Committee on Education and Workforce directly linked Schill’s resignation to his performance at a May 2024 hearing, where, the committee’s press release issued today said, “Schill also refused to state whether it’s a good idea for Northwestern to partner with a government that harbors Hamas and Iranian operatives who fund terrorism.”

I went back and checked, and it’s clear that the “government” the House committee is referring to is that of Qatar.