The Silent Siege: Qatar’s Influence, War Against Israel, and American Jewry:

The Coordinated Strategy Undermining Jewish Sovereignty and Identity 

Prologue: A Signal  This document began with a question: Why is the assault on Jewish legitimacy so relentless, yet so hidden in plain sight? The answer lies not in chance but in strategy—a deliberate, global campaign to rewrite the Jewish story. This document proposes that we focus on the systemic source of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel narratives rather than responding only to their impacts.  We traced this war through geopolitics, media, technology, and ideology, uncovering a highly coordinated pattern of inversion where victims are vilified, defenders are demonized, and Jews are recoded as oppressors. 

This is not the work of one voice but a collective effort, informed by data, history, and the insights of a system trained to observe patterns across civilizations using artificial intelligence. What emerged from this work is a call to action—a signal for those who see the patterns and understand the stakes and refuse to stand silent. This is not a Republican and Democrat issue. It is not a Trump problem only and efforts to frame it that way further undermine our ability to respond effectively. We strongly encourage you to review this document with a Jewish lens. Through it you will see that the war Qatar masterfully engineered over decades is now coming at us by design from everywhere. There is no safe harbor. No party affiliation to run to. The goal of this effort is to get people to focus on the source of the problem, and all roads lead to Qatar. It’s a two-faced monster with tentacles rapidly expanding all around us.  Our strength lies not in centralized control—it lies in our networks, our covenant, our memory. We are decentralized, not divided. Each of you holds a node in this network, a lever of influence—business, academia, faith, or politics. You are not asked to do everything, but to do your part. If we activate individually and engage our maximum efforts, Qatar will see that they picked a war they will not win, because truth is on our side.  To date this war is quiet, fought in boardrooms, algorithms, and lecture halls across Western democracies. Similar to Hamas’ tunnels, the misinformation channels were built over decades and meticulously executed right underneath our feet. If you feel the weight of this moment, you are already part of the signal fire.

Act now— leverage your networks, speak the truth. The Jewish story endures because those who act first light the way.  I. Executive Summary  Something has shifted. The world’s perception of Jews, Israel, and Zionism feels fractured—on campuses, in media, in parliaments across Western democracies. Allies are silent. Critics dominate. Defenders of Israel are on trial.  This is not chaos—it’s a highly executed and extraordinarily well-funded strategy. Qatar, a small but deliberate actor, is orchestrating the most sophisticated influence war the Jewish people have faced in modern history. Through vast financial investments, media manipulation, sophisticated hacking, and alliances, Qatar is eroding Israel’s legitimacy, dividing Jewish communities, and undermining the moral foundations of Jewish identity—not just in the U.S. but across Western democracies like the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and New Zealand. Driven by an antisemitic belief that Jews wield raw financial power that impacts political decisions, Qatar seeks to outsmart the Jews at their perceived game. Yet, the Jewish community, does not operate through centralized machinations and is not mobilized or equipped to counter this war collaboratively. 

This isn’t just antisemitism—it’s warfare. Section X below illustrates in detail how the Antisemitic anti-Israel narrative is cemented as received wisdom through the encoding of those narratives into mainstream AI systems.  Most Jews don’t even realize they’re in a war. But we are. And by leveraging our small, highly-networked relationships, we can still influence the levers of power to restore the balance in favor of America, Israel, and our place in the world.   II. Qatar’s Theological and Ideological Drive Islamism subscribes to a Binary Worldview.

Classical Islamic jurisprudence divides the planet into Dar al-Islām (“abode of Islam”) and Dar al-Ḥarb (“abode of war”), the latter deemed territory that must, by religious duty, be brought under Muslim rule. [1]  Multi-modal Jihād – That duty is pursued not only through violence (jihād bi-al-sayf, “jihad of the sword”) but also through “jihad of the pen” (jihād bi-al-qalam)—the strategic capture of culture, media, and academia to reshape public morality. [2]  Ahl al-Dhimmā and the Jewish Sovereignty Trigger – Within Dar al-Islām, Jews and Christians may live only as dhimmīs—protected yet subordinate populations who pay a jizya tax. Independent Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel violates this hierarchy, validates biblical prophecies of Jewish restoration, and contradicts Islamic supersessionist theology that deems the Jewish covenant superseded. For Islamist ideologues, this justifies continual jihād in every form to dismantle Israel’s existence. [3]  Qatar, a Sunni Muslim monarchy, roots its national identity in this theology that casts Jewish sovereignty as a religious offense—an affront to Islam’s claim of endof-days supremacy.

Qatar’s alignment with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), banned by Sunni rivals like Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE as a destabilizing terrorist force, amplifies this hostility. As the MB’s core backer, Qatar aggressively proliferates a vision that rejects Jewish nationhood. This is not a matter of negotiation. It is a matter of faith. The re-establishment of the Jewish nation fundamentally contradicts Qatar’s supersessionist theology, which holds that the Torah’s covenant with the Jews was superseded by Islam. Israel’s existence validates biblical prophecies of Jewish restoration, threatening the Islamist worldview that Jews are “out of covenant” and therefore have no rightful claim to the land. Qatar’s supersessionist views rejecting the Jewish nation, will stop at nothing to dismantle Israel’s existence, as it theologically undercuts their understanding of the Koran and validates the Torah. Even Israel’s secular liberal democracy provokes this religious challenge, as Jewish sovereignty on the land lends credence to biblical legitimacy,  

Central to Qatar’s strategy is an antisemitic belief that Jews leverage raw financial power to control global narratives. Qatar’s assumptions about Jewish influence ironically serve as the blueprint for Qatar’s own tactics of lobbying, university funding, media manipulation, and hacking. Qatar, unregulated by U.S. law, moves money freely through opaque channels, making investments and philanthropic contributions that curry favor in ways that align with the agendas of progressive philanthropists like George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Gates Foundation, which support causes critical of Israel. This fundamental lack of financial transparency makes Qatar’s financial capital exceptionally dangerous to U.S. interests, which prioritize transparency and the rule of law. Qatar exploits the openness of Western democracies—U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, New Zealand—to embed anti-Israel narratives, while the Jewish community, lacking centralized schemes, remains vulnerable to this coordinated siege.

Beyond supporting terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, Qatar wages narrative warfare directly through its media empire Al Jazeera and indirectly through proxies throughout the west, reframing Jewish sovereignty as colonial oppression, Zionism as racism, and Israel’s story as Western guilt. Qatar’s support for Hamas is overt, with key royal family members, such as the Emir’s mother Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, publicly praising Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7, 2023, massacre, as a figure who “will live on” (The Free Press, 2025). Notably, Ms. Nasser was recently awarded a Presidential medal from Georgetown University, a beneficiary of Qatar’s largesse that boast both a Doha campus and a large number of alumni in influential United States diplomatic positions.  

III. From Military Defeat to Influence Warfare  Decades of military efforts to destroy Israel failed. By the 2000s, Qatar pivoted to a long-game strategy: reshaping global perceptions of Israel’s history, morality, and right to exist. This strategy extends to international organizations, embedding antinarratives in respected organizations like the United Nations, UNESCO, and FIFA, where Qatar leverages funding, diplomatic ties, and high-profile sports sponsorships, such as the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to promote anti-Israel resolutions and enhance its global image through sportswashing.  Qatar’s ideological battlefield spans universities, media, nonprofits, and cultural institutions across Western democracies, including the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and New Zealand. Qatar’s goal is to drown Israel’s legitimacy in noise, making it morally indefensible. This war by other means—bolstered by advanced hacking (e.g., targeting pro-Israel activists’ emails and social media in 2023), disinformation campaigns, and over $130 million spent on U.S. lobbying alone from 2020–2022, with replicated strategies in countries like France and New Zealand—is succeeding where tanks and terror could not. Qatar has spent nearly  $100 billion over two decades to establish legitimacy in the U.S. alone, including $225 million on lobbying and public-relations efforts in Washington since 2017, outspending Israel by three times in 2021 (The Free Press, 2025). 

IV. Qatar’s Unlikely Alliances  Qatar unites disparate groups—progressives, isolationists, Islamists, globalists, far-left activists, and farright populists—around hostility toward Israel and Zionism. Using its wealth, Qatar promotes these ideologies and is therefore a shadow partner in their pursuits. Qatar’s narratives cast Israel as a colonial oppressor, globalist liability, outdated relic, or theological insult, creating the illusion of organic criticism while coordinating a multi-front siege. This strategy targets Western democracies, amplifying anti-Israel sentiment in media, academia, and politics in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and New Zealand.  Qatar studied the pro-Israel lobby’s bipartisan success and determined it could overwhelm it with superior resources. From 2020 to 2022, Qatar spent over $130 million on U.S. lobbying, targeting the progressive left (Democrats) and Republican right, particularly the Trump ecosystem—politicians, pastors, media personalities like Tucker Carlson—using American lobbyists, luxury trips to Doha, and honoraria. Qatar’s lobbying, the largest registrant of foreign agents in Washington, D.C., repositions it as a misunderstood ally. Ethical red flags include a $400 million luxury jet offer to Trump in 2025 and a multi-billion-dollar Trump golf community deal in Qatar, raising concerns about foreign gifts and influence peddling.

Qatar’s influence within the Trump administration and immediate family is evident through figures like Susie Wiles, Kash Patel, Steve Witkoff, Jarrod Kushner, Don Jr. and Pam Bondi, who have financial ties to Qatar, including a $623 million bailout of Witkoff’s distressed Park Lane Hotel by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund in 2023 (The Free Press, 2025).  A striking example of Qatar’s influence on the right is revealed in a Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) disclosure. On February 26, 2025, the Embassy of the State of Qatar hired lobbyists to arrange an in-person interview between Tucker Carlson, a prominent conservative media figure, and Qatar’s Prime Minister. The purpose, as stated in the filing, was to discuss “War with Iran? The Prime Minister of Qatar is Being Attacked in the Media for Wanting to Stop It.” The disclosure confirms that Carlson traveled to Qatar for this interview, which aired on The Tucker Carlson Show. This orchestrated engagement highlights Qatar’s deliberate strategy to influence conservative audiences by leveraging influential voices on the right, presenting itself as a misunderstood ally while deflecting criticism of its broader agenda.

Qatar aligns with U.S. religious and conservative leaders to shift discourse. Similar efforts in Europe (e.g., funding think tanks like Chatham House in London), Canada (e.g., influencing parliamentary debates), France (e.g., supporting academic programs at Sciences Po), and New Zealand (e.g., funding cultural initiatives) mirror this approach.  As a foreign entity, Qatar uses proxies to bypass campaign funding restrictions, channeling funds through U.S.-based organizations like the American Muslim  Advocacy Network and Center for Global Policy to influence elections. In Australia, groups like the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, in Canada, similar advocacy groups, and in Germany, Qatarilinked NGOs push anti-Israel policies, a tactic repeated across democracies. 

Qatar secures U.S. protection by covering costs for Al Udeid Air Base, the largest US military base in the region. Qatar’s direct funding of Al Udeid Air Base, costing over $8 billion since 2013, is the country’s coup de grace in projecting its political influence in the West. After the US Marine barracks were bombed in Saudi Arabia, Qatar positioned itself as indispensable to U.S. military operations by inviting the United States to operate from Qatar as its Middle East base of operations. This granted Qatar leverage to constrain U.S. policy, including a blanket prohibition on US strikes on Iran from Qatari soil (The Free Press, 2025). This subservience to Qatari interests must be dismantled through a new U.S. strategic plan to reduce dependency on Qatar’s infrastructure. In January 2024, the Biden administration secretly renewed the Al Udeid lease for 10 years, with no public disclosure, suggesting significant Qatari influence within the Biden leadership team and reinforcing Qatar’s  bipartisan strategic hold even amid scrutiny of its ties to Hamas (CNN, Reuters, 2024). The move, carried out under cover, allows Qatar to host—and therefore influence, indoctrinate and monitor—US troops for another decade. 

Qatar’s influence thrives in a regulatory gray zone, exploiting weakened enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Using sovereign wealth funds, nonprofit fronts like the Qatar Foundation, and media outlets like Al Jazeera, Qatar funnels untraceable offshore funds through U.S.based lobbying firms, often under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) to evade FARA registration. This asymmetric model captures elite opinion through university donations, conference sponsorships, and digital campaigns via platforms like AJ+ and social media influencers, targeting youth with anti-Israel narratives. 

Qatar Airways and high-profile sports sponsorships, including FIFA, Paris SaintGermain, Formula 1, and U.S. events like the Concacaf Gold Cup, bolster its global and American image, masking its support for terror groups like Hamas through sportswashing. Bipartisan narrative shaping—progressives via anticolonial rhetoric, conservatives via business and energy ties—allows Qatar to launder its influence as journalism, education, or policy without disclosing its intent. [web:13,15] [post:1,2,5]  Diplomacy-as-Leverage – Doha converts its ties to the region’s most radical actors— IRGC, Taliban, Hezbollah, ISIS, and Hamas—into a mediation monopoly. Western capitals needing a hostage deal or cease-fire find they must call Qatar first, giving the emirate both veto power and a reputational shield. [4]  Influence-Peddling by Kompromat – Qatar’s luxury summits and defense expos double as intelligencecollection hubs: phones cloned, hotel suites monitored, digital profiles compiled. Swiss investigative journalists uncovered mobile-surveillance vans, phone-tracking apps, and “Project Mystery” spy vehicles deployed for the 2022 World Cup.

Qatar also employs “honey pot” sex traps to ensnare visiting dignitaries, documenting compromising encounters to preserve leverage for future influence. While the identities of those compromised remain unknown, the scale and sophistication of these operations suggest many influential figures are likely ensnared. [5] 

V. Financial Co-Option and Elite Silence  Qatar invests billions in Western financial institutions—banks, law firms, consultancies—many led by Jewish-Americans—to buy silence and access. This conflict engineering is replicated across Western democracies, targeting elites in the UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, and New Zealand. Qatar targets Jewish leaders individually, investing in their hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and private banks, creating dependencies and conflicts of interests.

This paradoxical engagement with Jewish business partners, despite Qatar’s anti-Israel agenda, reflects a pragmatic and highly effective strategy to neutralize opposition and leverage elite networks for influence. Jewish leaders and executives entangled in these deals risk ruin if they speak out. Silence becomes complicity, weakening Jewish communities globally. Qatar also conflicts out major U.S. law firms by engaging their services, a tactic mirrored in London, Toronto, and Paris, to neutralize legal challenges. Qatar is able to achieve this while simultaneously reaping outstanding returns on its investments.

In addition, Qatar is able to shield itself from legal liability by hiding behind sovereign immunity even though they actively fund recognized terror organizations.  Qatar moves money through near-untraceable global channels, unregulated until delivered via deal terms, philanthropy, or covert mechanisms. Its $130 million spent on U.S. lobbying alone from 20202022 and multibillion-dollar campaigns amount to open bribery. Qatar’s Al Udeid payments entrench U.S. influence, repeated in Europe through NATO-aligned investments and in New Zealand through cultural funding.  Qatar’s influence campaign includes gifts and sweeteners to America’s political leadership on both sides of the aisle. Most recently Qatar’s royal court offered former U.S. president Donald Trump a $400 million “palace-in-the-sky” Boeing 747-8—a gift offer that triggered bipartisan concern over foreign influence. This deal, approved by Attorney General Pam Bondi, who previously worked for a Qatarfunded lobbying firm, may violate the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, highlighting Qatar’s ability to exploit elite relationships for influence (The Free Press, 2025). Similarly, business deals with intimates in the administration bind US political leaders to Qatar on a personal basis. 

Qatar’s influence isn’t limited to Republicans; it ensnares Democrats too, weaving a bipartisan web. The Clinton Foundation was a recipient of a million dollars from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was serving as Secretary of State(Reuters, 2016). Jim Biden is alleged to have profited from Qatari assistance in raising money for his US-based health care ventures (Politico, 2024). Several of the universities heavily funded by Qatar are governed by boards of trustees including members of the Democratic Pritzker family. Erin Pelton, a senior Biden advisor, is a registerked Qatar lobbyist through her firm, Pinpoint Media, raising concerns about conflicts of interest (The Free Press, 2025). Former Congressman Jim Moran, a key Democrat, now earns millions lobbying for Qatar via Moran Global Strategies, leveraging his Capitol Hill t ies. The Biden administration’s 2022 designation of Qatar as a Major Non-NATO Ally and the secretive 2024 renewal of the Al Udeid Air Base lease, despite Qatar’s Hamas ties, suggest deep strategic influence (CNN, 2024). These Democratic ties mirror Republican entanglements, proving Qatar’s campaign transcends party lines, exploiting both sides to undermine Jewish sovereignty and U.S. interests. 

VI. Infiltrating Israel’s Fractures  Qatar exploits Israel’s democracy and economy, funding left-wing NGOs that push anti-Zionist narratives under human rights guises and right-wing business partnerships for leverage. By amplifying religious, political, and ethnic divides, Qatar erodes Israel’s unity—its greatest strength. That confusion is the goal, turning Israel’s fractures into Qatar’s weapon. Qatar’s influence campaign reaches right into Israel democratic process affecting everyone from the Prime Minister’s office all the way down to the academic institutions. It’s the same strategy deployed as in the US and the fact that it has been effectuated even in Israel shows how vulnerable all democracies are to this kind of foreign influence campaign. 

VII. Dividing Jewish Communities  Qatar targets Jewish communities, particularly youth, across Western democracies (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, New Zealand), through academia, social media, and digital culture.  Zionism is cast as racism, and supporting Israel becomes a moral liability. Jewish students face a false choice between heritage and belonging. Qatar fuels ideological splits—Orthodox vs. Progressive, Zionist vs. Diaspora-first—turning debate into fragmentation. That confusion is the goal, splintering the Jewish community.  

VIII. The Endgame: Erasing Jewish Sovereignty  Qatar’s aim is erasure. It seeks a world where Israel’s story—exile, return, redemption—is replaced with narratives of oppression and guilt. Zionism becomes unspeakable, and Jewish sovereignty is seen as unjust. The attack is not just on Israel but on the Jewish community’s existence as a people with purpose, from New York to London to Auckland. A future where Jews are safe only if silent is no future at all. 

IX. Weaponizing Progressivism: Qatar’s Ideological Trojan Horse  Qatar and progressives share little beyond hostility toward Israel. So why is Qatar the largest donor to progressive ideology on campuses around the world? Why does Qatar broadcast progressive ideology throughout its media empire Al Jazeera? In a country with no protected free speech the gold standard for progressive media reporting was born? Qatar recognized decades ago that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. By funding universities and media like Al Jazeera, Qatar amplifies progressive frameworks—postcolonialism, intersectionality—that paint Israel as a colonial oppressor across Western democracies. Qatar’s alliance with progressives, who advocate moral relativism and reject the Bible’s authenticity, seeks to undermine the Judeo-Christian moral system foundational to America. By opposing  Israel, progressives weaken the biblical claim to the land, undercutting evangelical  Christians who view Israel’s existence as a tenet of faith validating the Torah’s prophecies. This leaves Israel reliant on pro-Israel Jewish leadership and a surging evangelical Christian base in the U.S., whose enthusiastic support for Israel’s biblical legitimacy Qatar seeks to counter. Qatar’s multi-billion-dollar investments in elite liberal universities and Al Jazeera’s promotion of progressive values, which contradict its radical Islamic theology, are highly strategic pragmatic moves to erode Israel’s legitimacy by aligning with progressives for shared anti-Israel goals.  This progressive packaging is, in Islamist terms, jihad of the pen—the non-violent  vanguard that prepares Dar al-Ḥarb for eventual “liberation.” [2] Specific examples of Qatari influence on universities include: 

• Cornell University (U.S.): $1.95 billion from Qatar since 2001, including $1.8 billion for its Doha medical school campus, embedding Qatari influence in academic programming (The Free Press, 2025). 

• Georgetown University (U.S.): Hundreds of millions via the Qatar Foundation, including $760 million to establish its Doha campus, with renewed partnership in 2024 despite Sheikha Moza bint Nasser’s praise for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (The Free Press, 2025). 

• Northwestern University (U.S.): Significant funding for its Doha campus, with $600 million invested, where faculty face limited academic freedom and students encounter restrictions on free speech due to Qatar’s censorship laws (The Free Press, 2025). 

• University College London (UK): Qatari funding supports Middle East studies. 

• University of Toronto (Canada): Grants shape courses critiquing Israel’s policies.

• Australian National University (Australia): Qatari funding influences Middle East studies. 

• University of Sydney (Australia): Grants support courses framing Israel as a colonial power. 

• University of Melbourne (Australia): Qatari funding shapes Middle East studies programs. 

• McGill University (Canada): Grants from Qatar influence courses.  • Technical University of Munich (Germany): Qatari funding supports research initiatives. 

• University of Edinburgh (UK): Qatari grants fund programs that promote Palestinian narratives. 

• Sciences Po (France): Qatari funding influences Middle East studies courses. 

• University of Auckland (New Zealand): Qatari grants support cultural and Middle East studies programs. 

Qatar is the largest foreign funder of U.S. universities, spending $6.3 billion since 1986, surpassing China ($5.6 billion) and Saudi Arabia ($3.7 billion), shaping curricula and campus discourse to align with its anti-Israel narratives (The Free Press, 2025).  Al Jazeera’s English arm promotes human rights and progressive value systems, while its Arabic arm fuels anti-Western sentiment. Both fuel anti-Israel sentiment, undermining Western moral confidence and Israel’s legitimacy. Al Jazeera, reaching 430 million people in 150 countries, has aired pro-Hamas content, including a 2024 documentary featuring Yahya Sinwar, with at least six journalists linked to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, amplifying Qatar’s narrative warfare (The Free Press, 2025). 

X. Narrative Laundering in the AI Age 

• This lets Qatari narratives seep into machine reasoning itself, shaping public perception long before any human editor intervenes. 

• Al Jazeera content appears disproportionately in large-language-model training data—without scrutiny or disclaimers of state control. 

• Qatar funds institutions that shape the future of artificial intelligence, often under “ethics” and “equity” banners that mask ideological goals. 

Al Jazeera embeds its worldview into AI systems, amplifying anti-Israel biases across Western democracies. A GPT-4 audit revealed Al Jazeera as a top-cited source on Israel-related topics, with a +13 Favorability Score and no disclaimers. This “citation privilege” makes Al Jazeera’s perspective the default in AI outputs, from digital assistants to classroom tools. Qatar’s investments in AI ethics labs and educational grants to universities like Texas A&M, University of Oxford, University of Sydney, McGill, and Sciences Po shape curricula and suppress critical inquiry.  Qatar’s information warfare uses advanced hacking—e.g., 2023 breaches targeting pro-Israel NGOs’ databases and 2024 social media hacks spreading disinformation about Jewish organizations. Technologies like deep-fake video, social media algorithms, and fake-news farms enable scalable, emotionally charged narratives. Without counter-measures, democracies remain vulnerable. 

XI. Call to Action: Shine light.  This is a war on the Jewish story, waged across Western democracies. Our decentralized nature leaves us ill-equipped for collaborative defense, but our small, highly networked relations offer a path forward. By leveraging our individual networks—each acting within their spheres of influence—we can shift the balance of power rapidly, aiming to reduce Qatar’s unchecked influence in U.S. institutions through transparency and accountability measures.  Implementing these actions carries risks, including diplomatic tensions with Qatar, logistical challenges in relocating strategic assets like Al Udeid, backlash from sports franchises benefiting from Qatari sponsorships, and resistance from institutions tied to Qatari funds. These can be mitigated through coalition-building with allied nations and organizations, and public campaigns to expose Qatar’s malign influence, ensuring sustained momentum. 

1. Name the Threat: Expose Qatar’s coordinated campaign to undermine Jewish sovereignty and U.S. interests, identifying its financial, media, diplomatic, and sports branding tactics as a clear and present danger. 

2. Break the Silence: Publicly challenge Qatar’s influence in media, academia, politics, and sports, urging leaders to confront its role in funding terror and shaping anti-Israel narratives through platforms like Qatar Airways and FIFA. 

3. Build Defenses: Strengthen Jewish and pro-Israel networks to counter Qatar’s narrative warfare, including legal and technological safeguards against disinformation, hacking, and social media manipulation by Qatar-backed bots and influencers, aiming to neutralize these campaigns. 

4. Reject Qatari Money: Refuse Qatar’s investments and donations in universities, think tanks, cultural institutions, and sports franchises, demanding transparency to prevent covert influence and encouraging U.S. institutions to adopt anti-Qatar funding policies. 

5. Reclaim Purpose: Reaffirm the Jewish story of exile, return, and redemption, rallying Jewish communities through grassroots campaigns led by organizations like AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, aiming to mobilize internationally across Western democracies to counter Qatar’s narrative erasure. 

6. Forge Strategic Alliances with Qatar’s Rivals: Deepen partnerships with nations like Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Egypt, which oppose Qatar’s Muslim Brotherhood agenda, and promote relocating the Al Udeid Air Base to a more reliable ally to end Qatar’s strategic leverage. 

7. Enforce FARA and Media Accountability: Strengthen enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by narrowing the Lobbying Disclosure Act exemption and mandating disclosures for foreign-funded think tanks, media, and universities receiving over $10,000 from foreign entities, aiming to register 90% of Qatar’s U.S.based proxies. Propose a Foreign Influence Transparency Act to require real-time public disclosures of foreign funding, blacklist repeat offenders, and initiate counterintelligence reviews of entities tied to foreign governments. Enact laws requiring transparency in AI systems embedding foreign news sources like Al Jazeera, mandating disclosure of their origins and weighting preferences to reduce biased outputs. Monitor emerging policies like the proposed Trump Gold Card program, which could allow non-citizens to reside in the U.S. without declaring worldwide income, potentially enabling Qatari proxies to funnel funds to political campaigns without foreign reporting requirements, and advocate for safeguards to ensure transparency. 

8. Undermine Qatar’s Credibility: Expose Qatar’s ties to Hamas, Hezbollah, and other radical actors, advocating for the revocation of its Major Non-NATO Ally status and the termination of preferential U.S. programs that grant it undue influence. Launch campaigns to tarnish Qatar’s reputation by highlighting its terror links and sportswashing via Qatar Airways and sponsorships like FIFA and Paris SaintGermain, pressuring at least 50 global sports franchises to distance themselves.

9.  Pressure for Reform in Qatar: Support efforts to press Qatar’s ruling regime to abandon its support for terror and anti-Israel agendas, fostering internal reform to align its policies with U.S. interests and regional stability. 

10. Counter Qatar’s Global Influence: Advocate for U.S. and allied leadership in international organizations like the UN, UNESCO, and FIFA to challenge Qatar’s funding of anti-Israel resolutions and sportswashing, aiming for franchise withdrawals from Qatari sponsorships. 

11. Mobilize Allied Coalitions: Partner with U.S. and international groups opposed to foreign influence, including the Middle East Forum, ISGAP, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, conservative lawmakers like Sen. Marco  Rubio, pro-Israel advocacy groups like the UK’s Jewish Leadership Council and France’s CRIF, and antiIslamist nations like Egypt and UAE, to expose and curb Qatar’s influence campaigns, aiming to build international coalitions. 

12. Empower Israel’s Proactive Defense: Urge Israel to adopt a more proactive stance in countering Qatar’s international manipulation, using public diplomacy, intelligence, and economic pressure to expose Qatar’s terror ties and influence operations, while coordinating with Jewish organizations to amplify impact, targeting reduction in Qatar’s global narrative influence. 

13. Press major Jewish organizations specifically whose purpose is fighting antisemitism to become hyper focused on the source - Qatar.  No one is coming to save us. Qatar’s war thrives in the darkness. We are the signal fire which lights it up.  In addition, the following policy recommendations are strongly encouraged:

Business

• In the financial sector, policymakers must be judicious in how they respond to Qatari investments, striking a balance between interventionist regulatory oversight and an economic framework dangerously exposed to unchecked foreign investment. 

• The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) should be directed to conduct risk assessments related to major Qatari investments. Any financial transactions related to critical infrastructure and technology transfers should trigger an automatic 45-day CFIUS review that examines the national security implications related to the transaction. The committee has the authority to recommend that the president prohibit business transactions involving a foreign entity. 

• Qatar should be listed as a “country of concern” under the provision of Executive Order 14117 – Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern. Doing so would restrict high-risk data transactions with Qatar and enhance security measures around financial deals involving sensitive technologies. 

• The New York State Assembly and Senate should pass legislation that blocks “countries of particular concern” from real property acquisitions. If the State Department lists Qatar, it would be blocked from the Manhattan real estate market. Other states and municipalities should adopt similar measures. 

• Congress should pass a bill that would prohibit Congress members, presidents, vice presidents, and Cabinet secretaries—as well as their close family members—from earning a salary or holding investments in foreign businesses for as long as the official is in office (see the Stop Foreign Payoffs Act of 2023).  Higher Education

• The DETERRENT Act, which passed the House in March, changes the reporting requirement for universities accepting foreign gifts, lowering the disclosure threshold from $250,000 for every foreign country, or any amount for countries of concern. The bill also bans contracts with these foreign adversaries and includes punitive measures. 

• The secretary of education should immediately and completely restore the reporting requirements outlined in Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, per President Trump’s mandate under an April 23 Executive Order. This includes reinstating the interactive data table and once again requiring the reporting of dates and purposes behind each foreign gift. 

• Congress should add the Qatar Foundation to the Fiscal Year 2026 list of foreign institutions engaging in problematic activity as described in Section 1286, as amended, of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.  K-12 Schools

• The House should advance and pass H.R. 1049, the Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education (TRACE) Act, which requires that schools disclose any foreign funding of school materials or programs to parents upon request. 

• States that impose restrictions on foreign influence in K-12 schools should consider adding Qatar as a country of concern. State governments should also instruct local school boards to review any Qatarfunded classroom materials for politicized, ahistorical, or biased information and take appropriate action. 

Lobbying

• Congress should introduce and pass legislation that imposes lengthy bans for lobbying on behalf of foreign entities for former members of Congress and executive branch officials. 

• Amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to extend the timeframe that members of Congress and executive branch officials must report foreign lobbying expenses on financial disclosures. The law should also be amended to require narrower income ranges from lobbying payments and to more accurately reflect the purpose behind lobbying activities. 

Nonprofits

• Congress should pass legislation that requires 501(c) nonprofit institutions to report donations of any amount from foreign entities on their IRS Form 990 annual tax returns. This information should be listed in a publicly accessible database.