A safe haven in the Midwest
University score: Poor
Freedom of speech: F
FIRE free speech ranking: #187 out of 248 colleges
Dependence on Foreign Money: B
Wash U has received over $8 million from communist China between 2020 and 2023. Wash U has also received over $1 million from Qatar, which sponsors al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Hamas, and over $2 million from Saudi Arabia.
Campus Antisemitism: B
Anti Defamation League Campus Antisemitism report card grade: B
Inclusion of African-Americans: B
Percentage African-American of Undergraduates (2022): 9%.
Sexual violence: B
Incidence of on-campus rapes (2019-2021): 0.39 per 1,00 students
Federal investigations: The House Committee on Education has opened an investigation over Princeton’s decision to employ a former Iranian diplomat as a professor
Campus Support for Terror: B
- Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) was the site of numerous antisemitic demonstrations after October 7, where protesters called for “global Intifada” (violence against Jews) and clamored for Palestine “from the river to the sea” (the destruction of Jews in Israel). Over 1,200 people in Israel were raped, tortured, killed and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists – among them at least 40 Americans.
- On November 2023, an Wash U professor Bret Gustafson praised pro-Palestinian rioters who vandalized a Jewish leader’s home. The antisemitic professor said it was “pretty cool” to attack Jewish leaders in their homes
- Unlike many other universities, Wash U did not take antisemitism lightly. Chancellor Andrew Martin sent a letter to campus community expressing his concern about the antisemitic phrases that anti-Israel protesters chanted and scrawled on walls around campus.
- The university took steps to provide a safe environment to the students, and even opened a pilot program for Jewish students who were feeling unsafe at their schools and wished to transfer. Newspaper reports suggest that Jewish
- students at Wash U feel safer on campus compared to students in other well-known universities
