This week, Texas A&M University abruptly announced that it would be closing its Qatar campus (TAMUQ) in 2028. The sudden decision to end the relationship, which dates back to 2003, is deeply entwined with Qatar’s active role in seeking adiplomatic resolution to the war in Gaza. With Qatar at the forefront of efforts to secure an end to Israel’s genocidal violence in Gaza, neoconservatives and Netanyahu acolytes who oppose diplomacy seek to scupper it by attempting to smear and delegitimize Qatar as a ‘terror-supporter’. Such anti-Qatar disinformation is not new, but TAMUQ’s closure is the late…