Student activists, particularly within Students for Justice in Palestine, are pushing for the incorporation of anti-Palestinian racism and the bolstering of Middle East and settler-colonial studies within university curricula.

During a recent House committee hearing on campus anti-Semitism, university presidents from institutions like Harvard, UPenn, and MIT were called out for their dishonesty and evasion of crucial issues.

A research consortium has found that American colleges and universities received $2.7 billion in funding from Qatar between 2014 and 2019, without public acknowledgement from the institutions themselves.

Israeli government officials approached leading American Jewish institutions offering funds to combat the BDS movement, but at least four organizations, including the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, declined the offers due to concerns about being required to register as foreign agents.