It’s wild! Honestly, because they want to influence Western intellectual thought— they are smart, and they know the ripple effects of aligning academia with the values of theocratic (largely Islamist) regimes. It’s how they have people with PhDs in the streets calling terrorists “freedom fighters” and citing all kinds of academic reasons why Bin Laden was also right. Very creepy. I linked to The Free Press article in there and I can’t recommend it enough! I don’t love everything she does, but Bari Weiss (who founded this publication) was a longtime reporter for New York Times who left, and the investigative journalism in this publication often knocks it out of the park