In Washington D.C., “Everyone has interests with the Qataris.”
"Qatar [has invested] heavily in Western knowledge production and narrative control."
At $6.25bil, Qatar is top five in foreign contributions to academic institutions in the U.S., with sources in Burmuda, Canada, Germany, and Japan filling out the other four.
Think tanks and policymakers have taken in over $9.1mil since 2019.
Since 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250 million on 88 FARA–registered lobbying and public relations firms, 33 of those were retained in a single year.
Between January 2021 June of this year, agents of Qatar had racked up 627 in-person meetings with U.S. political contacts. 100+ more meetings than Ukraine or German and hundreds more than any other country.
Such reach, influence, and investment provides Qatar a lot of cover and the soft silencing of opponents.
Who in media or in the think tank world wants to publish a piece critical of Qatar when the country is preparing to hand you millions to be their "friend."
Or already has.
Qatar’s US influence model is media-centric. It combines state and non-state media actors, including FARA-registered PR and booking firms, as well as audience-targeted outreach to shape interviews, op-ed placement, and talking points."
"AJ+, which the Department of Justice directed in 2020 to register under FARA, was built to speak fluent campus and creator culture, mastering the vocabulary of democracy and turning a religious forever-war into a social-justice narrative palatable to Western audiences."
"In August 2015, AJ+ appointed Dima Khatib as managing director and charged her with scaling the “red–green” alliance between leftist radicals and Islamists."
The "red-green" alliance, the joining of radical Islamists and Marxists together for the purpose of undermining and destroying Western civilization, is the threat Rich Higgins warned about years ago in his infamous memo.
documentcloud.org/documents/3922…
And this threat, the red-green alliance, which Qatar is bankrolling, is the "man behind the curtain" for the Free Palestine movements, the Woke Right, the anti-Israel conspiracy junkies, and the morally bankrupt influencers.
This article is a good read.
quillette.com/2025/10/31/the…
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