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ISGAP REPORT LAYS OUT HOW QATAR IS FUNNELLING MONEY INTO THE USA, EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD THROUGH STATE PROXIES.

On December the 5^th, 2023 – U.S. House of Representatives committee members asked Presidents of four prestigious universities in the United States about the funding that they received from Qatar. The impression given by most of them was that their Qatari funding is not coming from the state. This answer is a partial truth as $Billions USD is going to them via Qatari State-owned NGO’s and commercial entities!

The ISGAP Follow the money project’s previous reports have laid out the following:

• Qatar is the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities.
• The Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist ideology is intertwined with the State and furthermore the links that Qatar has with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian Chapter – Hamas
• The fact that money coming from foreign states such as Qatar is having a direct effect on increasing antisemitism and anti-democratic vies/activity.

This report lays out the way that Qatar is operating a war-chest with in between $500 Billion USD – $1 Trillion of assets and growing, to affect soft power in the west – including U.S.’ prestigious universities. 

The report examines the main Qatari institutions, their investments, the amounts of money and how it is being funneled directly into U.S. universities by using Qatari state-owned NGO’s such as The Qatar Foundation as well as other methods of transferring funds without reporting to either to the Department of Education or the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

In the report, ISGAP examines the following sectors:

• Hospitality
• Real Estate
• Energy
• Food and Beverage
• Education
• Media

For the first time, the mechanisms and figures are laid out in one comprehensive report.

The Ongoing Failure to Report

• Are potentially defrauding the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) by not fully disclosing the financial support received from Qatar.
• Are in breach of federal law, particularly after prior warnings and compliance orders.
• Are evading the disclosure of funding from Qatar, and potentially from other sources.
• Are potentially engaged in laundering funds through unreported payments in kind or “indirect funding”. 

Hijacking Higher Education, Qatar, The Muslim Brotherhood, and Texas A&M

The report details Qatar’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups such as Hamas and the Taliban and reveals why unrestricted access to Texas A&M University Qatar’s (TAMUQ) sensitive research poses an alarming national security risk to the United States.

Texas A&M is a public university leading state-of-the-art nuclear research with potential weapons applications. It has access to research nuclear reactors and maintains advanced projects in sensitive areas such as biotechnology, cybersecurity, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The Texas A&M Qatar campus was established in 2003 through a confidential agreement between Texas A&M and the Qatari Government-funded Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development.

The Report details the problematic nature of the agreement between the Qatar Foundation and Texas A&M:

• ALL intellectual Property for research and development funded (including Nuclear) – belongs to Qatar
• Qatar has access to Sensitive student information.
• Qatar is working with Texas A&M on weapons development.
• The lack of transparency of the agreement and reporting of funds received by Texas A&M to the Government

Through an analysis on Texas A&M Qatar’s grants, ISGAP identified over 500 Qatari-funded projects, with an average award amount of approximately $1 million USD, with maximum grants up to $5 million USD, some of which going to highly sensitive research areas.

Qatar’s significant control over Texas A&M’s research poses serious questions.

• What does Qatar do with the resulting sensitive intellectual property and technologies?
• Will the Qatari Regime, an ally to Hamas and Iran, secretly provide or sell intellectual property or technologies to other dangerous regional actors?

The sweeping terms of this agreement make it possible for Qatar to proliferate dual-use sciences and compromise US national security.

The Qatari Regime, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood

The Qatari Regime, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood” report is part of a series of papers that is part of the ISGAP research project entitled “Follow the Money”.  This 11-year project exposes a cause of antisemitism, rather than a symptom, which the Jewish community and Higher Education have been grappling with for years.

To truly understand Hamas, one needs to understand the Islamist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and its connection to and support from Qatar as well as to Hamas and other Islamist entities.

The Muslim Brotherhood ideology is committed to the destruction of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people around the world, including the United States, Canada, Europe and beyond and is intertwined within the Qatari infrastructure and civil society.

This report lays out the history and the ideological tenets of the Muslim brotherhood as well as its relationship and connections to Hamas and Qatar.

The Corruption of the American Mind

Over the last decade, institutions of higher education across the United States of America received billions of dollars from foreign donors that were not reported to the U.S. Department of Education, as required.  The U.S. Department of Education required that those institutions file reports detailing how much such funding they received and from where.

Using the information that ISGAP uncovered and via other sources that are publicly available, ISGAP commissioned the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) to examine the correlation between this funding and the deterioration of liberal democratic norms around free speech and academic freedom, as well as antisemitism on campus.

As part of the ISGAP Follow the Money research project, we found that:

• The receipt of undocumented money was associated with the erosion of free speech norms: Increased campaigns to punish scholars for their speech (it was associated with increased levels of such campaigns from both the left and the right).
• The receipt of undocumented money was associated with increased levels of campus antisemitism, and this relationship was larger when the undocumented funding came from Middle Eastern/authoritarian states – Qatar is the largest donor to U.S. universities.
• The receipt of undocumented money predicted increased perceptions of campus antisemitism.
• The money preceded the rise of antisemitism and drove this into its local communities.