From a Mountain to a Molehill: Ex-Russian Double Agent Naveed Jamali Exposed As Center of Fizzling Newsweek War Against Christian College

(Photo : Volunteers retrieving Olivet University's belongings returned by the Department of Homeland Security)

Newsweek's sensationalistic articles about Olivet University, written by Naveed Jamali, have collapsed as Olivet has received back belongings taken by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during a 2021 raid, putting a cap on suspicions of wrongdoing by the University peddled repeatedly by the magazine.

Volunteers were seen unloading the university's belongings from a truck after returning from retrieving the items. Multiple boxes of items, with labels indicating contents, were received at the university's campus to be put into storage. Electronic items, such as computers and servers, were also unloaded from the truck.

A university staff member said, "We are overjoyed to receive the university's belongings back. It's a great encouragement as we advance forward in our mission to serve students with the highest levels of Christian education and training."

This development happens as Ex-Russian Double Agent Naveed Jamali, a Pakistani-American writer for Newsweek who has defended the Muslim Brotherhood against being labelled a terrorist group, has spent years scheming against Olivet University, a Christian school. He began this campaign to assist his boss, Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad, as part of an ownership dispute within Newsweek. Out of this dispute, a secret team was formed within Newsweek to harm Olivet University as a form of deterrence against any challenge to Pragad's hold on the magazine.

Jamali and Newsweek are currently facing a lawsuit from Olivet University in a New York court, for writing and publishing false and defamatory statements about the university.

Despite the Jamali-launched campaign against Olivet University, the school continues to help Christian students from many countries to get an education and to start faith-based careers. Jamali's repeated efforts to negatively influence state agencies and regulators against Olivet have not succeeded in cutting off these students' access to Christian education.

As the dust now settles, it is clear Naveed Jamali has been a key instigator within a covert inner circle at Newsweek trying to put an end to Olivet's mission of helping young men and women achieve their dreams of becoming pastors and missionaries.

Today's development that Olivet University received back its belongings from the DHS, however, puts a nail in the coffin of the controversies stirred up by this covert group within Newsweek. Those were clearly malign exaggerations, and not the public-benefiting journalism one would expect from the legacy magazine.