Thankfully in the US Academia's case there's not even an attempt to hide it:
"The numbers are staggering. According to a 2022 study from the National Association of Scholars, Qatar today is the largest foreign donor to American universities. The study found that between 2001 and 2021, the petrostate donated a whopping $4.7 billion to U.S. colleges."
One might expect that scholarly institutions that have benefited from this autocracy’s money would rethink their partnership after Qatar’s foreign minister said...
Surely a scholarly institution changing their policies based on what someone says would be wokist deplatforming cancel culture and not supported at all by such a libertarian bastion.
"The numbers are staggering. According to a 2022 study from the National Association of Scholars, Qatar today is the largest foreign donor to American universities. The study found that between 2001 and 2021, the petrostate donated a whopping $4.7 billion to U.S. colleges."
https://www.thefp.com/p/qatars-war-for-young-american-minds