Qatar has allegedly pumped more than $20 billion into American colleges and other top institutions as part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s decades-long plan to infiltrate the US and “destroy” democracy from within, a leading research institute warns — while adding that the nefarious funding could be staggeringly higher.
The Qatar Foundation, which is bankrolled by the country’s ruling Al Thani royal family, has apparently been injecting tens of billions of dollars into institutions to help the Sunni Islamist group carve out toeholds in the educational system, according to a new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP).
“The royal family of Qatar has a Bay’ah — a spiritual oath — to the Muslim Brotherhood, so they’re pumping in many, many billions of dollars into our universities, K-12 schools and cultural institutions, using influence and soft power to promote its ideology,” Dr. Charles Asher Small, executive director of ISGAP, claimed in an interview with The Post.
Money trails uncovered by ISGAP show the Qatari regime has donated a staggering $10 billion to Cornell University over the years, Small alleged — with smaller amounts doled out to schools such as Georgetown University, Texas A&M and Brown University.
“This is the tip of the iceberg,” Small said of the eye-watering sum he estimates could be “at least $100 billion,” adding that the group has “only looked at a few universities” so far.
Cornell receives funding to run a medical school in Qatar that has seen roughly 600 graduates from 50 countries across Asia and the Middle East — and that the money “remains in Qatar,” a spokesperson insisted.
“Budgeted funding for the medical school in Qatar has averaged approximately $156 million per year from 2012 to 2025, totaling $2.2 billion. Virtually all funding remains in Qatar for Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar school operations,” they added.
“We are proud to be the first US-based university to offer our MD degree overseas to educate and train doctors and scientists in patient care, biomedical research and improving quality of life.”
Meanwhile, Georgetown had received “over a billion in funds” from Qatar, according to Small, which was put toward “education in the social sciences, Middle East studies and funding of the most important diplomatic training program in the US if not the world.
“It’s a very impactful use of soft power,” he added.
Georgetown did not respond to a request for comment.
ISGAP also discovered $1.3 billion had been given to Texas A&M by Qatar. Following years of searching, Small said the group found a contract between the Qatar Foundation and the university agreeing to fund over 500 research projects conducted at the school’s Qatar campus, which was established in 2003.
The contract ceded “all intellectual property rights” to the foundation, ISGAP claimed — and the school confirmed in a statement to The Post, adding that “the faculty creating the IP are appropriately compensated.”
“Faculty who create intellectual property at Texas A&M at Qatar receive 37.5% of the net licensing revenue from that IP,” the statement said. “The remaining net licensing revenue is distributed 33.3% to the Qatar Foundation and 29.2% to Texas A&M at Qatar to reinvest in the research program there.
Of these, 58 projects had “dual-use” for military purposes, and dozens more involved dual use for nuclear research, Small said, noting that ISGAP has called on the Department of Energy to investigate.
“No nuclear technology, weapons/defense or national security research is conducted at the Qatar campus,” Texas A&M said.
“No sensitive or secret research is taking place at this campus.”
The school began the process of closing its campus in Qatar last February. At that time, it said it had decided its core mission should be focused on Texas and the US. Small, however, claims ISGAP’s probe “hit some kind of raw nerve.”
The Post reached out to the Qatar Foundation but didn’t hear back immediately.
The “primary vehicle for campus influence” is the Muslim Students Association (MSA), the ISGAP also claims in the report. The MSA has chapters on more than 600 college campuses — including Columbia University and NYU.
It also alleges the organization is in cahoots with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) — which “cooperates with the MSA” — has been “particularly effective in advancing Brotherhood objectives” tied to the Israel-Hamas war.
When asked if it plans to open a probe into the MSA chapter at Columbia, a spokesperson for the Ivy League school said it “has been clear that we have zero tolerance for promoting terror or violence.”
The Qatar Foundation’s US affiliate, Qatar Foundation International, is behind the map of the “Arab World” renaming Israel as “Palestine” that sparked outrage when it was hung in a classroom at PS 261 in Brooklyn last year.
Meanwhile, ISGAP argued in its latest report — titled “The Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Entryism into Western Society: A Systematic Analysis” — that the Islamic group was already halfway through its plan to “transform Western society from within” by covertly embedding its allies and ideology on college campuses and other mainstays of American life.
The group also called on the US to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization to thwart its apparent efforts.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this week gave the designation to both the Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
“The Muslim Brotherhood is a pro-Hamas organization determined to carry out its “civilization jihad” strategy with the goal of splintering Western society into terror cells,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said.
“I’ve consistently supported designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization to bolster our national security and protect the future of higher education.”
In order to safeguard institutions from such undue influence, Small stressed that the US needed to “understand the mind of our enemy.”
“American voters, decision makers and scholars need to pay more attention to the importance of ideology,” he warned.
“The strategic goals we outlined in our report … shows the Muslim Brotherhood wants to move Israel away from the US — to isolate it, to destroy it — to use antisemitism to fragment and weaken the US and destroy its democracy.”
Small said that there needed to be more transparency regarding foreign funding, too.
“I think taking funds from entities, states or foundations or businesses that are diametrically opposed to democratic ideals, or ideals of liberal education, there should be safeguards not to take money because it has influence,” he said.
He pointed to the alarming fact that “a lot of young people at our best universities are coming out supporting Hamas” as evidence that reforms were needed.
“The Muslim Brotherhood is committed not only to destroying the state of Israel and murdering Jewish people around the world, they’re committed to the subjugation of women, the murder of gay people and the destruction of democracy,” Small said.
“Very simple things we take for granted like citizenship, or the notion that regardless of our ethnic, cultural, religious, gender, racial background or income we have a right to be equal under one system in a democracy — this is what they want to destroy and replace.”
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