The Pied Piper Strategy of the Middle East and China is defeating America and the West. By Eric Buesing.
When college students tore down posters of kidnapped Israeli children in October 2023, parents asked: where did this come from?
The answer lies in curriculum materials developed at Brown University. These materials reached approximately one million students annually in roughly 8,000 high schools across America. What teachers didn’t know, and what parents never learned, is that the professor who shaped these materials was funded by a Middle Eastern government. His purpose was to advance one specific narrative: Israel as a settler colonial project. Not to debate it. Not to present multiple perspectives. To establish it as fact.
“This is not a debate,” Professor Beshara Doumani told a Brown audience in 2016. “And it’s not meant to be a debate.”
This is the root of American antisemitism’s resurgence. But antisemitism is just the visible symptom of something larger. The same infrastructure that taught a generation to hate Jews is now teaching them to hate America. The same foreign funding mechanisms that delegitimized Israel are delegitimizing Western civilization itself. America is being systematically dismantled. One classroom at a time. One algorithm at a time. One generation at a time. …
How it happened:
Since 1981, American universities have accepted $13.1 billion from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait …
Saudi Arabia gave Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center $20 million. The funding was structured to “follow” the center’s director. This gave the Saudi government effective control over who held the position. … At least one donation explicitly funded a Palestinian Studies professorship at Brown. The position went to someone who supports boycotting Israel. That was Doumani. His position didn’t exist until foreign money created it. His influence shaped the curriculum materials that were used in roughly 8,000 schools. Those materials reached approximately one million students annually. …
How America is being conquered and erased — the Pied Piper strategy:
The pattern repeats everywhere. Foreign governments fund academic positions. Universities fill those positions with scholars who share the donors’ worldviews. Those scholars create curriculum materials. The materials reach thousands of schools nationwide. Teachers trust them because they bear prestigious university names. Parents never question them because they don’t know the funding sources. Students absorb frameworks that were designed by foreign governments to advance foreign interests.
And it works. Research examining the years 2015 to 2020 found something striking. Institutions that accepted Middle Eastern funding experienced 300% more antisemitic incidents than institutions that didn’t accept such funding. Separate studies reached the same conclusion. Undocumented money from Middle Eastern authoritarian states predicted increased campus antisemitism. And the funding came first. The money preceded the hatred. The money caused the hatred. …
College students who were indoctrinated through foreign-funded curriculum become K-12 teachers. Then they deliver that same curriculum to the next generation. …
Each generation of teachers is more indoctrinated than the one before. Each cohort of students emerges more hostile to Israel. More critical of America. …
Students who absorbed these frameworks don’t stop at graduation. They enter corporate America. There they find institutions that reinforce rather than challenge their worldview. Major corporations have embraced DEI bureaucracies. These bureaucracies operate using the identical theoretical frameworks that were taught through foreign-funded curriculum.
The settler-colonial lens isn’t academic abstraction anymore. Neither is the oppressor-oppressed binary. Nor the focus on systemic racism and white supremacy. These are now corporate policy. Google, Microsoft, Disney, Bank of America, and hundreds of other major employers now require training. This training teaches employees that America is fundamentally racist. That Western civilization is inherently oppressive. That different standards must apply to different people based on their identity.
Young employees who learned in school that Israel is a colonial project find corporate environments that validate this exact worldview. Their education taught them the framework. Their employers apply it. The reinforcement is complete. …
Thanksgiving dinners have become battlegrounds. Adult children lecture their parents about colonialism, white privilege, and systemic racism. They use vocabulary their parents don’t recognize. They invoke frameworks their parents never encountered in their own education. The children genuinely believe their parents are racists. Or genocide apologists. Or both. The parents look at these young adults and don’t recognize the people their children have become.
Parents and children now operate from completely different factual foundations. They learned different history. They absorbed different values. They developed different loyalties to different ideas of what America is and should be.
This serves foreign interests perfectly. A divided America focused on internal conflicts is an America distracted from external threats. Families that can’t agree on basic facts can’t mount unified resistance to anything. The same infrastructure that taught children to hate Israel and America also taught them to view their own parents with suspicion or outright contempt.
Jews first, America and all whites next:
The settler-colonial framework doesn’t stop with Israel. It’s a universal acid that dissolves legitimacy everywhere it gets applied. If Israel is a colonial project because Jews “displaced” Palestinians, then America is a colonial project because settlers “displaced” Native Americans. If Israelis are foreigners with no legitimate claim to the land, then Americans are foreigners with no legitimate claim to the continent. If Hamas resistance is justified against Israel, then any resistance to American power is also justified. …
China too:
While Middle Eastern money was capturing Middle East Studies, Chinese money pursued a parallel strategy with complementary goals. Between 2015 and 2019, American universities received approximately $1.2 billion from China.
Chinese funding came with strings attached. Branch campuses that American universities operate in China must operate under Communist Party censorship. Confucius Institutes spread propaganda while disguising it as language instruction. Research collaborations transfer American technology to a hostile foreign power. Faculty members who criticize China lose access to research sites and funding. Students who question Chinese policy face harassment from Chinese student associations that are backed by their government. …
Then there’s TikTok. The app has 150 million American users. They’re predominantly young. TikTok is owned by ByteDance. ByteDance is a company that operates under Chinese law. Chinese law requires cooperation with intelligence services. The TikTok algorithm determines what content reaches users. It determines what worldviews become normalized. It determines what ideas trend and what ideas get suppressed. …
Hostile foreigners rule America’s children:
By the time these Americans reach voting age, their worldviews have been shaped by foreign adversaries. …
American students now rank as mediocre internationally. This is true despite America spending more per student than almost any other nation. But the real failure isn’t visible in the rankings. It’s visible in capability. Students can’t distinguish credible sources from propaganda. They accept emotional appeals over logical arguments. They repeat slogans without understanding the concepts behind them. They believe what authority figures tell them, whether those figures are professors or algorithms.
This is the soil in which foreign influence flourishes and takes root. You cannot manipulate a population that has been trained to think critically, question sources, and evaluate evidence systematically. You can easily manipulate a population that has been trained to memorize facts, conform to consensus, and defer to credentialed experts. American education created that second type of population. …
American institutions now do the will of foreign powers:
Congressional staffers in their twenties and thirties were educated through this system. They draft legislation. They brief members of Congress. Their worldview shapes what information reaches policymakers. When a congressman asks for background information on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the staffer provides a memo. That memo reflects what she learned in school. The frameworks that were embedded in her education become the frameworks that shape American policy decisions. …
The 2024 elections revealed this dynamic clearly. Younger voters overwhelmingly opposed military aid to Israel. They supported conditioning that assistance on Israeli policy changes. They expressed sympathy for Hamas at rates that would have been completely unthinkable in previous generations. Politicians noticed these trends. Policy positions began to shift in response to this demographic.
This represents a strategic victory for the foreign governments that funded these outcomes over decades. They didn’t need to lobby Congress directly. They didn’t need to fund think tanks to influence policy. They invested in education over a period of decades. Now that investment is generating returns as the educated generation enters positions of power. …
America is dying, being replaced by third-world-educated fools:
Patriotism declines with each younger cohort. Trust in American institutions plummets. Belief in American exceptionalism nearly disappears among Americans under 25. Support for capitalism versus socialism flips entirely when you look at younger demographics.
These trends are accelerating rather than moderating. The gap between generations widened more between 2020 and 2024 than it did in the entire previous decade. Each graduating class is more hostile to American values than the class before it. And remember that these students become teachers. They perpetuate and intensify the frameworks they learned.
University DEI budgets have exploded. They’ve grown to hundreds of millions of dollars at major institutions. These bureaucracies enforce ideological conformity throughout universities. Faculty hiring increasingly requires diversity statements. These statements function as ideological litmus tests. Students who challenge the prevailing orthodoxy face social and academic consequences.
The intellectual monoculture is nearly complete. A professor who defends Israel now risks their entire career. A student who expresses support for American foreign policy risks social ostracism. The feedback mechanisms that might moderate these trends simply don’t exist anymore. There’s no correction coming from within the system. …
Educational standards collapse as meritocracy gets attacked as a form of discrimination. School districts eliminate advanced courses because they produce “inequitable” outcomes. They abandon standardized tests. They close gifted programs. American students fall further behind their international peers while the education establishment celebrates achieving equity.
Economic mobility declines as capitalism gets portrayed as exploitation rather than opportunity. Young Americans who were educated to view business as oppressive don’t start companies. They don’t pursue careers in productive economic sectors. Instead they gravitate toward activism, non-profit organizations, and government jobs. The entrepreneurial spirit that built American prosperity withers generation by generation.
National unity fractures as shared American identity gets condemned as a form of colonialism. Balkanization accelerates along racial, ethnic, and ideological lines. A population that doesn’t see itself as one unified nation cannot act with unified purpose. …
Innovation suffers as the best minds pursue activism rather than STEM fields. American technological dominance erodes as Chinese universities graduate more engineers each year. Meanwhile American universities graduate more social justice activists. …
Sharp binary choice NOW:
Rome didn’t fall in a single day or year. It decayed over multiple generations. Civic virtue eroded gradually. Citizens slowly lost the will to defend their civilization. Barbarians were welcomed and accommodated rather than resisted. The parallels to contemporary America are profoundly uncomfortable. But they are also undeniable. …
This is what civilizational collapse looks like from the inside. It’s not dramatic invasion or military conquest. It’s internal rot that spreads gradually. It’s not external defeat on battlefields. It’s internal surrender in classrooms. It’s not military failure. It’s spiritual exhaustion and the loss of belief in one’s own civilization. …
Unless Americans recognize what is happening and demand that it stop immediately, the nation that saved the world from fascism in the 1940s and from communism in the 1990s will join the long historical list of civilizations that fell. …
The choice facing America is completely binary. Confront this crisis now with comprehensive action, or watch it accelerate until recovery becomes permanently impossible. There is no third option available. There is no path of gradual reform that will work. The system is too thoroughly captured. Too deeply self-reinforcing. Too comprehensively corrupted for any incremental change to succeed.
Sobering. The socialist masses are taking down the group that got away and invented the modern world, thereby liberating humanity from the Malthusian edge. Mediocrity is wining again, and the socialist stagnation beckons once more.