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Fear in Manchester ‘like during the Holocaust’
Rabbi Benjamin Rickman, a Mizrachi movement emissary and community Rabbi in Manchester, described the painful feelings in the Jewish community in Manchester after and even before the attack in which two worshippers were murdered on Yom Kippur, in an interview with Arutz Sheva – Israel National News.
He says, “We are experiencing antisemitism in an abnormal way. There is fear of walking the streets, people are scared, they endure shouts and curses. It is terribly sad that people live like this. We continue in any case, but some people go out less, people take off their kippah and Stars of David so that they will not be identified as Jews. On the other hand there are those who walk around with an Israeli flag and come to synagogues on Shabbat even though they would not usually come, to show that the Jewish people are still here. It is complicated.”
He noted the difficulty of accepting the norm of synagogues being secured, “It bothers me that we need guards outside the synagogues. I entered my synagogue on Shabbat and there was a patrol vehicle outside the synagogue for 12 hours. The police were kind. They came to hear from us what is happening in the synagogue and the community. Everyone left the prayers and said thank you very much. They said that the Jews are the politest in England, but it is still not right. There are extremist movements in England and the government and politicians do not know how to deal with them because they are also afraid of them, because they are becoming a majority in England.”
Rabbi Rickman relates to the helplessness of British politicians from his personal experience, “A nice politician in my area needs the votes of those who oppose the Jews and the State of Israel to keep his seat in Parliament. They play the game. I received many emails of sorrow and pain, but beyond that they did not say that this is wrong and that the extreme voices must be silenced and antisemitism stopped. I asked them why no one is saying that what we experience is not right. I receive no answer on that. They focus on the murder but not the problem.”
“They do not talk about the fact that there is a religion here that sanctifies death and not life, which must be silenced. They honor and encourage murder, like the Nazis. More people need to speak up and say that they do not accept people living with a worldview that honors murder and death.”
Asked what is happening to make Britain deteriorate like this, he says, “It is hard to explain. It characterizes England that the silent majority does not speak out here, they are the polite ones and they are our friends. The minority is loud and has a big mouth. For them, this is not just politics but a religious value to take to the extreme, and because this is higher on their value scale the noise they make is stronger than the silence of others.”
Rabbi Rickman believes it is still only a minority. “I went shopping on Friday and the woman at the supermarket wanted to hug me. I told her not to, please… but she wanted to hug me and said she was sorry and they are with us, etc. The minority makes a lot of noise. It is a minority that is both loud and violent and it stresses the British who do not want to be shouted at and cursed.”
In this reality, Rabbi Rickman says, talk about immigrating to Israel is increasing. At his own home, his eldest daughter immigrated to Israel, his younger son will come in a year to study in Israel and the same will be true for his younger brother, “It is like during the Holocaust with the Kindertransport. That is how I see sending the children to Israel, and later we will also come.”
He also tells of his daughter moving to Israel, who told him about two hundred families planning to immigrate to Israel. “If the government does not understand the other side’s perspective and does not want to confront it, then there is no choice but to move.”
Rabbi Rickman notes that the harsh reality in Britain began even before the October 7th massacre. “There have always been problems in Europe. This is not new. Not something of the last two years,” he says and notes that as a teacher for twenty years at a school he is angered by the reality in which the only schools that are secured and surrounded by fences are Jewish schools. “This is how people live here every day. Since the massacre the pro-Palestinian demonstrations have also been violent and loud.”
Israel’s Consulate General missed the mark during Bibi’s UN visit
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Despite one of his most moving and important speeches during the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearance is being promoted by his opponents with pictures of former allies walking out in protest of him and the meetings with powerless content creators and social media influencers that took place afterwards.
Days later, the announcement of a multi million dollar social media campaign led by Brad Pascale made the visit to the United States a bigger excuse for his loudest opponents to not support the Prime Minister. Their advocacy of, “I’m not antisemitic, but I am not a fan of Bibi Netanyahu” is resonating among republicans, libertarians and conservatives, who always defended him
And I, known for my programThe Jewess Patriot, a longtime Likud, Netanyahu and Trump activist, and one of the few Jewish women in the media as well as a strategist with Christian Zionists, have had a hard time explaining all the “conspiracy theories” with conservative journalists and MAGA supporters, many of them personal friends. Now my mission to elevate the Israeli government seems virtually impossible. They pose great questions:
- Is American money supporting this?
- Are struggling Israelis happy with this?
- Why now? Who will be picked to repost the narrative and how does this help?
How does the office of the Consulate General, representing the state of Israel and its leader, the Prime Minister, befriend a small group of people (some met him twice while important Jewish leaders were ignored) who have little ability to bring change? One person who supports Netanyahu and runs a Facebook group and a grassroots Zionist group called it “embarrassing.”
Sure, I would love to meet the Prime Minister and you won’t have to pay me a dime to strategize wisely and professionally, whether I meet him or not, because I actually speak to Americans from all backgrounds daily. And there are others.
Here are some examples of smart marketing strategies to combat the opposition to Israel and its leadership, real people, unsung heroes and representatives from all backgrounds and communities. The Consulate should have arranged that the prime minister meet:
- Leaders and volunteers who have walked every Sunday morning through snow and heatwaves, alone or with hundreds, sometimes with hostages, their families or soldiers on #bringthemhome runs.
- American lone soldiers and their families and organizations like Nerut which the office seems to ignore.
- Black leaders like Bill Tingling, who runs a Holocaust education program for minority public school students or Joe Pinion, political analyst on Newsmax and CNN who spoke up for Israel before October 7th.
- Board Members of organizations like Israel Bonds and One Israel Fund. Mamdani singled both Israel Bonds and One Israel Fund as his first priority to try and stop in New York.
- American parents or sons and daughters of those who made Aliyah, especially since October 7th, to show that American families are appreciated for the “gift” of a growing population in Israel.
- Leaders of Hillel and Chabad on Campus on colleges and universities who fight antisemitism and anti Zionism everyday within the Tri-State area.
- Restaurant and Jewish storefronts owners and staff who have been targeted with graffiti, theft, vandalism and arson, who lost livelihoods and valuable possessions that can never be replaced.
These are just a few ideas that I thought of off the top of my head and without a staff or budget to create and execute them.
President Trump has said he is aware that his base is questioning his decisions with Prime Minister Netanyahu and with the entire Congress up for reelection in 2026, s0 this Bibi social media campaign might backfire in many political races.
When I was invited to meet the Prime Minister during the General Assembly week of events a few years ago, the meeting included representatives from countries benefiting from irrigation technology and building international professional relationships. It was what befitted our country, its leader, international Jewry and Zionism.
This year, we should have reminded those who hate us that without us they probably couldn’t even get to The United Nations General Assembly, as they would be without their Israeli invention – the one (of many) called Waze.
Analysis: Hamas, Trump’s Plan, and the Future of Gaza
At the time of writing, Hamas has not yet provided its response to the Trump plan. However, judging by the prevailing opinion in Arab media outlets, the answer will likely be positive in principle, though Hamas will impose conditions related to its main difficulty: transferring Gaza’s administration to Western hands. British statesman Tony Blair, acting in President Trump’s name, would effectively end the ideology of the muqawama (resistance) and Hamas’s own role.
In the past day, it was reported that Izz al-Din al-Haddad, Gaza’s military commander who holds the hostages, opposes the deal. According to him, it spells the end of Hamas’s rule, even if they accept the agreement.
This is obviously a strong claim, representing a substantial obstacle to Hamas’s consent to the deal, as the question concerns Haddad’s personal future rather than Gaza’s wellbeing. The question is whether Qatar will impose its will on him. In my opinion, Qatar and Hamas’s leadership in Doha will exert pressure on him, and there’s a chance for conditional agreement.
After Qatar and Hamas’s Doha leadership entered American protection, it’s reasonable to assume Qatar will ask Trump to guarantee protection for Haddad and his associates as well. Over the weekend, there was a phone call between the Qatari Emir and President Trump, and it’s likely Haddad’s situation came up in the conversation.
Why Assume Hamas’s Answer Will Be Positive in Principle?
In terms of territorial control, in exchange for releasing the hostages, the IDF will withdraw from Gaza’s outskirts. Hamas keeps its weapons, and since it will take a long time before the international force materializes, Hamas can meanwhile restore its control over Gaza.
On the other hand, the threat that Israel will have free hands to “eliminate Hamas” and “complete the task” is hard to believe, given that Chief of Staff Zamir is unlikely to stain his uniform with the blood of the hostages.
The Role of the Prime Minister’s Office
Despite the Prime Minister’s Office’s spin about removing Hamas entirely from Gaza, in reality, the office is working to keep Hamas in place. We saw this in the closure of the Rafah crossing to prevent the entry of elements that could replace Hamas, and in the timing of the original Chariots of Gideon operation, precisely when Gazans began mass protests against Hamas. Chariots of Gideon stopped this process and removed an internal threat to Hamas.
The test of the PMO’s sincerity in wanting to replace Hamas will come when the Rafah crossing issue arises. Whether Israel maneuvers to keep the crossing closed or cooperates with its opening will testify to the truth of its intentions. Opening the crossing means allowing an alternative to Hamas to enter. Keeping it closed leaves Hamas as the landlord. The ceasefire period will give Hamas the opportunity to eliminate enemies who arose against it during the war.
The Rafah Crossing: The Real Test
In practice, opening the Rafah crossing is the real test, as it would first enable a change of government, even without Hamas’s consent in Gaza, since it would allow Abraham Accords countries to establish a competing authority in Rafah—a sort of Idlib that would spread northward under international force protection.
This was the original plan. TheMorag Corridor was supposed to be the new Philadelphi Corridor. Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Egypt, and Indonesia were already in Rafah until Netanyahu decided that the Philadelphi Corridor was “the rock of our existence”—or Qatar’s. He removed the Arab powers that had already positioned themselves and made the Kerem Shalom crossing Qatar’s conduit of influence.
The Kerem Shalom vs. Rafah Question
The question of Kerem Shalom or Rafah now stands at the center of behind-the-scenes discussions about the ability to influence Gaza under Tony Blair’s Peace Council leadership.
It was reported that Blair is currently in Cairo so Egypt will authorize him to operate from Al-Arish until he can physically enter Gaza. Egypt cannot authorize this to avoid being accused by its fragile public opinion of collaborating with the “Zionist” plan. In my opinion, there will be no choice but to establish Blair’s center inside Israel, near Kerem Shalom, parallel to opening Rafah. After all, these are two very close crossings, and until Blair organizes his entry, he will operate from Israel.
Qatar and Turkey’s Influence
The question is: what will happen with the influence that Qatar and Turkey want to have in Gaza? The protection the United States gave Qatar may indicate that Qatar’s relations with the Gulf states will reach normalization, but Qatar will be obligated to stop Al-Jazeera’s incitement against regional stability.
Qatar has already begun personnel changes at the poison station. Is this real? Will Muslim Brotherhood propaganda cease? It’s hard to believe, but it’s always worth hoping—though with sober eyes.
Real Qatari assistance in ending the Gaza war could indicate what’s to come. But in the meantime, on Hamas’s website, we found this article—about how Al-Jazeera broadcasts from within the Gaza war undermine the stability of the Abraham Accords and the agreements themselves.
The baker testifies to his dough.
After Manchester, there can be no doubt – anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
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There were two horrifying events in England on Thursday. The first was the fascistic murder of two Jews at a synagogue in Manchester. The second were the anti-Israel protests that swept big cities before the bodies of our two Jewish countrymen were even cold. ‘From the river to the sea!’, the Israelophobic mob hollered in the deathly wake of the barbarous assault at Heaton Park. Two dead Jews were not enough, it seems – these people desire the violent erasure of the entire Jewish nation.
We need to grapple with just how sick it was, how heartless, for mobs in London, Edinburgh and Manchester itself to rain hatred on the Jewish State mere hours after two Jews were murdered. This was the salt of Israelophobia rubbed in the wound of anti-Semitism. ‘I hate Jews’, that vile knifeman essentially said. ‘We hate the Jews’ homeland’, followed up the keffiyeh creeps on our streets. As Jews in England were feeling insecure, these wailing activists were rallying for the destruction of the one, tiny patch of land that promises Jews security. ‘There’s nowhere to run’ – that was the implicit and horrific cry of the Israel-hate that followed the Jew-murder.
But there was more to the marches than heartlessness – they were nothing less than a reverse Cable Street. On 4 October 1936 – today is the 89th anniversary – the radical left rallied to the defence of London’s Jews from the menace of fascism, then of the European rather than Islamist variety. They stood with Jewish EastEnders against the threat of Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts. Fast forward 89 years and now the left responds to violent Jew hatred not by siding with Jewish people but by raging against the Jewish nation. Let us speak plainly: in the wake of the terroristic murder of Jews on English soil in 2025, the left hit the streets to echo the vile prejudices of the Oswald Mosley in this situation – knifeman Jihad Al-Shamie. They have officially crossed the barricade of Cable Street. They are now on the other side.
The orgy of Israelophobia that followed the slaughter at the synagogue made it crystal clear: hatred for the Jewish State is a close cousin of hatred for Jewish people. In fact they are spiritual siblings. That these two frothing ideologies exist in tandem in modern Britain is not a coincidence, as the anti-Israel left would have us believe. It is not an accident that Britain is overrun with both ‘respectable’ loathing for the world’s only Jewish nation and ‘unrespectable’ animus for the Jewish people. The one feeds the other. Israelophobia is the rotten soil in which Jew hatred festers and grows. And it’s time more of us said so.
A wave of defensiveness swirled through left-wing and liberal circles in the UK following the racist savagery at Heaton Park. Influential ‘progressives’ made perfunctory condemnations of the attack – making sure to mention the scourge of ‘Islamophobia’ while they were at it – but then they got down to their real business. Don’t blame this horror on us, they essentially said. We campaign against a state, not a people. Our fury is reserved for a ‘genocidal entity’, not any ethnic or religious group. We’re anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish.
Social media were awash with desperate efforts to draw a line between anti-Israel agitation and anti-Jewish hatred. ‘Conflating protests against the genocide in Gaza’ with ‘an anti-Semitic attack’ is ‘deeply irresponsible’, said Zack Polanski of the UK Green Party. There is no comparison between anti-Semitism and opposing ‘a foreign state which a consensus of genocide scholars… concluded is committing a genocide’, said Owen Jones. The mob of Israel-bashers that swarmed Liverpool Street Station and other sites across the UK clearly thought likewise – that their curiously intense hatred for one nation had nothing to do with the mindset behind the horrors at Heaton Park just a few hours earlier.
I’ve never bought into the idea that you can neatly separate the activist class’s myopic dread of the Jewish State from the bubbling up in our society of bigotry against the Jewish people. After Manchester I accept it even less. This moment calls for frankness. The stakes are too high for linguistic tiptoeing around the sicknesses in our society. The bottom line is this: if you spend every hour of every day obsessing over the unconscionable wickedness of the Jewish nation, if you ceaselessly damn Zionism as the cruellest ideology on Earth, then you have no right to come over all coy and shocked when Jews are targeted with invective and even violence. You’re like a bull in a china shop asking: ‘What happened to all these plates?’
Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. It’s the main form Jew hatred takes in the Western world in the 21st century. It is the uncanny likeness this ancient hatred wears in these supposedly post-racist times. You expect me to believe it is purely by chance that the activist class now says about the Jewish State all the things that fascist scum once said about the Jewish people? Israel, they say, is uniquely murderous. It’s a bloodletting entity. It derives pleasure from the murder of children. It wields staggering levels of global power. It has even mighty states eating from the palm of its blood-stained hand. Zero out of 10 for originality – every one of these libels was feverishly issued against the Jewish people before you co-opted them for your campaign of demonisation against the Jewish State.
Consider the sheer fixation with Israel. I have opposed wars fought by America, Britain, France, Turkey, Russia and Rwanda, but not once did any of those states occupy my every waking thought. Not once did I call for their violent obliteration from the family of nations. Never did I obsessively visit campuses, write articles, make videos and stand on street corners to say not only that ‘Turkey is wrong to bomb the Kurds’ but also that ‘Turkey is the most demonic, bloodthirsty entity in existence and the whole of humanity is fucking doomed until this vile so-called “country” has been wiped from the face of the Earth’. You know why I didn’t say that? Because I am not racist.
Here is the key commonality between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitsm – both ideologies hold some Jewish thing, whether the Jewish nation or the Jewish people, to be the true source of evil in the world. That is always what distinguished anti-Semitism from other forms of racism – the fact its fuel was not merely prejudice and bigotry but also a conspiratorial derangement that sees the Jews as the corrupters of the Earth, the spoilers of men’s souls. And it is what now distinguishes anti-Zionism from politics, from the realm of reasoned discourse that the followers of this ideology falsely claim to inhabit – it, too, finds a Jewish phenomenon, the Jewish State, guilty of manifesting evil, of sullying our species, of letting the blood of innocents and warping the minds of Westerners. It, too, sees ‘the Jew thing’ as the poison in the well of humanity.
To my mind, anti-Zionism is like a laundering scam. It is the passably political belief system that allows certain sections of society to launder their fear of Jews and present it as ‘criticism of Israel’. From England’s upper classes, who’ve long been iffy about Jews, to radical Islamists, who openly hate Jews, anti-Zionism has become the cloak under which they might spirit their Jew suspicion into everyday life. From far-right filth to leftists drunk on the old Socialism of Fools, anti-Zionism is a mask for the lingering, latent belief that there is something noxious, something unholy, about Jews.
To sow so much rancour for the Jewish nation and then reach for the smelling salts when Jews are demonised – no. We aren’t having it anymore. The reason ‘Zios’ – Jews – are getting it in the neck is because you have polluted public life with the fanatical, chauvinistic belief that Zionism is evil and everyone who supports it is evil. That Israel is uniquely cruel and everyone who backs it is cruel. That the Jewish State is the most despicable state, so much so that it deserves to be destroyed, ‘from the river to the sea’. Only Jihad Al-Shamie is responsible for the barbarism at Heaton Park. But here’s what you are responsible for: rebirthing in pseudo-political language the medieval derangement about evil Jews. After Manchester, I, for one, am devoted to the complete defeat of anti-Zionism.
Hamas’ dilemma in the face of the Trump plan
This is probably the greatest dilemma Hamas’ leadership has faced since the organization’s founding. The delay in the group’s official response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan points to the intensity of the hesitation.
There is no doubt that Trump’s plan is not a good deal for Hamas, not least because the organization is required to give up what makes it Hamas — its weapons. In other words, the organization’s whole existence has been based on being, supposedly, the representative of “resistance” (“Hamas” in Arabic is an acronym for the “Islamic Resistance Movement”) or, in other words, the one who keeps brandishing terror to bend the hands of the “occupation.”
The Numbers Don’t Lie: Qatar, Not Israel is Taking Control of D.C.
Key Takeaways
- Qatar has 31 FARA registrants in the U.S., with 22 based in Washington, D.C. — a 71% concentration, the highest of any major lobbying country.
- Since 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250M on 88 lobbying and PR firms, logging 627 in-person political meetings from 2021–25 — more than any other country.
- Its total U.S. footprint is $93.7B, including $30B in business investments, $29B in weapons purchases, $20B in energy projects, $8B for Al Udeid Air Base, and $6.3B in higher education.
- Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of U.S. universities at $6.3 billion. The D.C.-based Georgetown has recieved $1 billion since 2005.
- Qatari influence also permeates D.C. media and real estate: Al Jazeera holds 136 congressional press credentials (vs. 82 for the New York Times), and Qatari Diar owns the 2-million-sq-ft CityCenterDC project under Sharia rules.
Yet Another Ginned up Controversy Over Israel
Over the last few days, my feed has been flooded with people suddenly discovering FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and using it as a cudgel against Israel. Overnight, everyone who couldn’t even tell you what FARA stood for became an expert, righteously insisting that Israel’s “nefarious foreign influence” had finally been exposed.
The latest controversy started with the Soros-funded, Iran-linked Quincy Institute, which claimed influencers were being paid $7,000 per post by an Israeli lobby group. But if you actually read the filings, the real figure is $450–$750 per post — a perfectly normal mid-tier influencer rate, as data wiz Mark Zlochin (a must-follow) pointed out. Some on the Tucker Carlson wing of the GOP, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, argued that any influencer being paid by a foreign lobbyist should register under FARA (a point I actually agree with).
The narrative didn’t stop there. Almost immediately, fringe antisemites on the bowels of X began pumping out the false figure as “proof” that D.C. is under Israel’s thumb.
Let’s be clear: every single country tries to influence the United States, and they all use influencers to do it. Without exception. Is it a smart strategy? Meh, I’m not convinced. Personally, I think the risks outweigh the rewards, and I haven’t seen data proving otherwise. Qatar certainly seems to think so though, given how the Wall Street Journal revealed in 2018 that Qatar had targeted 250 influencers to try and sway Trump’s policy in their preferred direction.
That brings us to the main point. The real story isn’t whether countries do this — it’s about which countries many on both sides of the aisle are ignoring.
Because while the spotlight is being forced onto Israel, the real story is Qatar, whose sprawling foreign influence apparatus dwarfs everyone else’s. Yet curiously, few of these sudden FARA “experts” have said a word about the regime, even after President Trump signed an executive order effectively granting the Gulf terror state NATO-like security guarantees from the U.S. — guarantees that could, in theory, drag American citizens into war on behalf of Doha.
Qatar’s FARA Footprint
Here’s the basic landscape. As of today, there are 788 active FARA registrants in the United States (access full FARA database here). From what I could see, Japan has the most active registrants overall at 53, but proportionally Qatar has the highest concentration of FARA agents in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding area among countries with a significant lobbying presence.
- Israel: 16 total, with 8 based in D.C. (50%)
- UAE: 27 total, 11 in D.C. (40.7%)
- Saudi Arabia: 38 total, 15 in D.C. (39.5%)
- Japan: 53 total, about 30 in D.C. (56.6%)
- Qatar: 31 total, 22 in D.C. (71.0%)
Moreover, the data also shows that since Trump’s first election in 2016, Qatar has spent nearly $250 million on 88 FARA-registered lobbying and PR firms. From 2021–2025 alone, Qatar’s agents reported 627 in-person meetings with U.S. political contacts — more than any other country in the world.
Critics love to claim that Israel “buys” Washington. The numbers tell a different story. According to OpenSecrets, here are the top spenders on FARA registerants since 2016. As you can see, China has spent the most, at about $460 million, Qatar $258 million, and Israel $194. So when you hear talking points about “Israel buying influence,” remember: the country actually flooding D.C. with cash and lobbyists is Qatar.
These lobbiysts and PR firms were well worth the investment. Earlier this year, the Washington Examiner’s Robert Schmad exposed that since Trump’s 2024 win, Qatar has ramped up efforts to sway conservative media, with over half its foreign-agent outreach now targeting right-leaning outlets (up from ~10% before). This includes paying $180k per month to a firm that secured a Tucker Carlson interview for the Qatari prime minister and pitching favorable stories to Fox, the New York Post, and others — some of which ran soon after.
Somewhat relatedly, in March 2024, reports emerged that a Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax, leading senior newsroom staff to pressure reporters to soften coverage of Qatar. The investment, structured via a Cayman Islands corporate entity, represented a significant minority stake.
The $93.7 Billion Footprint
Lobbying is just the beginning. According to The Free Press, Qatar’s overall U.S. footprint adds up to $93.7 billion, broken down like this:
- Business investments: $30 billion
- Weapons purchases: $29 billion
- Energy plants and export facilities: $20 billion
- Al Udeid Air Base: $8 billion
- Lobbying and PR: $250 million
- Colleges and universities: $6.3 billion
That last figure is astonishing. Qatar is the single largest foreign funder of U.S. colleges and universities in history. The next closest? China and Hong Kong at $5.6 billion. Germany follows with $4.2 billion, England with $4.1 billion, and Saudi Arabia/Canada at $3.7 billion.
Qatar blows them all away.
Six major U.S. universities still operate campuses in Qatar: Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, and Northwestern (though Texas A&M is withdrawing in a couple of years).
- Georgetown University (main campus in Washington, D.C.) has received over $1 billion.
- Northwestern University has taken around $800 million.
- Texas A&M once had $700 million, until their contract was canceled last year.
D.C. Capture
Qatar’s influence isn’t abstract. It’s quite literally physically all over Washington.
- Al Jazeera’s subsidiary AJ+, based in D.C., was ordered by the DOJ in 2020 to register as a foreign agent. Five years later, it still hasn’t — and the DOJ has failed (or refused?) to enforce its own order.
- Speaking of Al Jazeera, the Qatari government-run outlet also has unrivaled access on Capitol Hill. Congressman Jack Bergman revealed in 2024 that Al Jazeera and its subsidiaries hold 136 congressional press credentials. The New York Times only has 82.
- The DOJ itself is now headed by Pam Bondi, who was once a registered foreign agent of Qatar and helped polish Doha’s image ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
- And let’s not forget real estate: the sprawling CityCenterDC development — 2 million square feet across five city blocks — is majority owned by Qatari Diar, which allegedly required the project to adhere to Sharia finance principles (equity investment only, no interest) and imposing restrictions on banks, bars, and certain businesses.
The Bottom Line
The numbers don’t lie. Qatar is:
- Spending far more than Israel on lobbying.
- Pumping billions into U.S. universities.
- Enjoying extraordinary media access.
- Embedding itself directly into Washington real estate.
Yet when the FARA conversation comes up, the outrage is laser-focused on Israel — where the actual numbers don’t even come close.
And before all the naysayers start whining about “AIPAC operating as an unregistered foreign agent” or some such nonsense, let me remind you: Washington is full of organizations advocating for strong U.S. ties with Greece (HALC), Armenia (ANCA), Ireland (Irish Caucus networks), India (USINPAC), and Taiwan (FAPA). Yet the outrage always seems saved just for AIPAC.
Any honest conversation about foreign influence in Washington has to start with the country that’s been pouring billions into U.S. politics, universities, media, and even the capital city itself. That country is Qatar.
OPINION – Even If Hamas Lays Down Its Arms, the Multifront War Against Israel Will Persist
President Donald Trump is working to secure the release of 48 Israeli hostages, including the return of the dead and the barely living. We pray during this season of Jewish High Holy Days and the festival of Sukkot that his efforts will soon succeed.
The US president has backing for a 21-point plan to address the “day after” in Gaza and across the region, with key Arab and Muslim leaders supporting a framework that seeks to reconstitute Gaza without Hamas terrorists.
While we welcome any plan that prioritizes reconstruction over war, it is brutally clear that the war against the Jews will not end soon.
Demonization of Israel, Jews, and core Jewish values—including Zionism—continues to spread across nations, international justice venues, university campuses, airports and ports, cultural institutions, and sports arenas. Every insult, every call for a boycott, and every violent act against Jews at prayer is legitimized and amplified across social media.
How bad could it get? Just days before the murderous Yom Kippur attack on a Manchester synagogue, CRIF—the official body of French Jewry—released a poll whose ominous findings reveal a growing black hole of Jew-hatred. Nearly one in three young French citizens (18–24) considers it legitimate to target Jews because of Gaza. Almost one in five French people overall share this view.
In apparent anticipation of charges of antisemitism, 68% of respondents recognized that antisemitism is a threat to society as a whole. Words condemning antisemitism in theory do nothing to protect Jews in practice. Jews across the UK and around the world were angered by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s hollow condemnation of the Yom Kippur attack, even as he and the mayors of London and Manchester did nothing to block pro-Hamas demonstrations held less than two hours after the synagogue attack. Taking their cues from political leaders, police in many European capitals stand idly by as genocidal chants echo on their streets.
Nor is it lost on Jewish residents of Amsterdam—still reeling from the violent, coordinated attack against Israeli sports fans who traveled to the city where Anne Frank hid to enjoy a “friendly” football match—that the mayor was a no-show at an event marking two years since Israeli hostages were beaten and dragged into underground Gaza dungeons.
Even as Hamas is defeated militarily, other fronts it launched continue the assault against the lone Jewish state and the Jewish people across Western Europe, North America, and Australia.
The goal of these well-funded, organized campaigns? To delegitimize, demoralize, demonize, and ultimately ghettoize.
Here are a few examples of attacks against the Jewish nation in the cultural arena:
- Within the Union of European Football Associations, activists have demanded that Israel be banned from European competitions.
- At the Eurovision Song Contest, countries have threatened to withdraw unless Israel is booted out.
- A respected composer leading an orchestra in Munich, Germany, was recently disinvited from the festival in Ghent, Belgium, not because of his artistic abilities, but solely because he was an Israeli.
These are not isolated incidents. They are the result of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) antisemitic campaign against Israel, which seeks to push the Jewish state and its institutions out of international spaces in culture, sports, academia, and commerce.
This is not protest. It is persecution masquerading as principle. It is the ghetto reborn—not with barbed wire, but with hashtags, petitions, and selective moral outrage. This campaign is not spontaneous; it is financed and amplified by powerful actors like Qatar, whose vast resources are deployed against Israel.
No other nation at war for its survival is treated this way. Iran can hang women in public for showing their hair and still send filmmakers to Cannes. China can imprison over a million Muslims and still host the Olympics. Russia can invade Ukraine and retain its cultural footprint in Europe. Yet Israel—the one democracy in the Middle East, home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike—is uniquely quarantined from global cultural life.
This campaign of exclusion does not advance peace. It is moral theater.
One does not have to look far back to recognize the historical parallel: In the 1930s, Jews in Germany were gradually stripped of access to culture, sports, and public life. Then as now, this exclusion was justified under the pretense of “moral purity,” the claim that the Jew was “dirty” and “disgusting.” Today, this smear targets not only individual Jews but the Zionist entity that stands charged and found guilty in the court of public opinion, at the United Nations, in legacy media, and by social-media “influencers” who accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid, and “weaponizing starvation.” In short, facts be damned—using Hamas’ talking points—Israel and the Jewish people are condemned as vile latter-day Nazi criminals.
President Donald Trump is working to secure the release of 48 Israeli hostages, including the return of the dead and the barely living. We pray during this season of Jewish High Holy Days and the festival of Sukkot that his efforts will soon succeed.
The US president has backing for a 21-point plan to address the “day after” in Gaza and across the region, with key Arab and Muslim leaders supporting a framework that seeks to reconstitute Gaza without Hamas terrorists.
While we welcome any plan that prioritizes reconstruction over war, it is brutally clear that the war against the Jews will not end soon.
Demonization of Israel, Jews, and core Jewish values—including Zionism—continues to spread across nations, international justice venues, university campuses, airports and ports, cultural institutions, and sports arenas. Every insult, every call for a boycott, and every violent act against Jews at prayer is legitimized and amplified across social media.
How bad could it get? Just days before the murderous Yom Kippur attack on a Manchester synagogue, CRIF—the official body of French Jewry—released a poll whose ominous findings reveal a growing black hole of Jew-hatred. Nearly one in three young French citizens (18–24) considers it legitimate to target Jews because of Gaza. Almost one in five French people overall share this view.
In apparent anticipation of charges of antisemitism, 68% of respondents recognized that antisemitism is a threat to society as a whole. Words condemning antisemitism in theory do nothing to protect Jews in practice. Jews across the UK and around the world were angered by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s hollow condemnation of the Yom Kippur attack, even as he and the mayors of London and Manchester did nothing to block pro-Hamas demonstrations held less than two hours after the synagogue attack. Taking their cues from political leaders, police in many European capitals stand idly by as genocidal chants echo on their streets.
Nor is it lost on Jewish residents of Amsterdam—still reeling from the violent, coordinated attack against Israeli sports fans who traveled to the city where Anne Frank hid to enjoy a “friendly” football match—that the mayor was a no-show at an event marking two years since Israeli hostages were beaten and dragged into underground Gaza dungeons.
Even as Hamas is defeated militarily, other fronts it launched continue the assault against the lone Jewish state and the Jewish people across Western Europe, North America, and Australia.
The goal of these well-funded, organized campaigns? To delegitimize, demoralize, demonize, and ultimately ghettoize.
Here are a few examples of attacks against the Jewish nation in the cultural arena:
- Within the Union of European Football Associations, activists have demanded that Israel be banned from European competitions.
- At the Eurovision Song Contest, countries have threatened to withdraw unless Israel is booted out.
- A respected composer leading an orchestra in Munich, Germany, was recently disinvited from the festival in Ghent, Belgium, not because of his artistic abilities, but solely because he was an Israeli.
These are not isolated incidents. They are the result of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) antisemitic campaign against Israel, which seeks to push the Jewish state and its institutions out of international spaces in culture, sports, academia, and commerce.
This is not protest. It is persecution masquerading as principle. It is the ghetto reborn—not with barbed wire, but with hashtags, petitions, and selective moral outrage. This campaign is not spontaneous; it is financed and amplified by powerful actors like Qatar, whose vast resources are deployed against Israel.
No other nation at war for its survival is treated this way. Iran can hang women in public for showing their hair and still send filmmakers to Cannes. China can imprison over a million Muslims and still host the Olympics. Russia can invade Ukraine and retain its cultural footprint in Europe. Yet Israel—the one democracy in the Middle East, home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike—is uniquely quarantined from global cultural life.
This campaign of exclusion does not advance peace. It is moral theater.
One does not have to look far back to recognize the historical parallel: In the 1930s, Jews in Germany were gradually stripped of access to culture, sports, and public life. Then as now, this exclusion was justified under the pretense of “moral purity,” the claim that the Jew was “dirty” and “disgusting.” Today, this smear targets not only individual Jews but the Zionist entity that stands charged and found guilty in the court of public opinion, at the United Nations, in legacy media, and by social-media “influencers” who accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid, and “weaponizing starvation.” In short, facts be damned—using Hamas’ talking points—Israel and the Jewish people are condemned as vile latter-day Nazi criminals.
Smotrich on Trump’s plan: ‘Historic missed opportunity. It will end in tears’
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich addressed U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war, calling it a “historic missed opportunity.” He added that it is “turning our backs on all the lessons of October 7 – and in my assessment, it will also end in tears. Our children will be forced to fight again in Gaza. This is what Einstein defined as complete foolishness – repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result.”
Explosive Report: Soros’ Open Society Gave Over $80 Million to Terror-Linked Groups
Alan Skorski sat down with Ryan Mauro, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, whose groundbreaking research exposed direct connections between George Soros, his Open Society Foundations, and Hamas-supporting groups in America.
Mauro originally broke the news during an interview with Glenn Beck, who for years has warned Americans about Soros’ dangerous ties to anti-Israel and anti-American movements.
In a 90-page report titled Exclusive: Soros’ Open Society Gave Terrorist and Pro-Terror Groups Over $80 Million, Mauro documents how since 2016, Soros’ Open Society—now operated alongside his son Alexander—funneled more than $80 million into extremist groups. According to Mauro, “The evidence is stark: Open Society has sent millions of dollars into U.S.-based organizations that engage in ‘direct actions’ the FBI defines as domestic terrorism.”
The investigation breaks down Soros’ funding into three categories:
Direct Assistance to Domestic Terrorism: At least $23.2 million to seven groups engaged in violence, property destruction, sabotage, and other FBI-defined domestic terrorism.
Support for Terrorism Abroad: Over $50.5 million to 41 groups that endorsed attacks such as Hamas’ October 7 massacre or are tied to foreign terror groups.
Associates of Terrorist Groups: More than $9.3 million to five organizations that provide material assistance to pro-terrorism networks, even while condemning attacks publicly.
Among the groups cited in the report is the BlackOUT Collective, which published a pro-Hamas guide glorifying the October 7 attacks and providing detailed instructions on illegal actions including property destruction, using fake IDs, evading police, seizing assets, and blockades—all of which qualify as domestic terrorism.
Other beneficiaries include Movement for Black Lives (at least $18 million) and Dream Defenders ($1.85 million), which partnered with BlackOUT Collective to produce the pro-Hamas guide using Ruckus Society materials.
Even the New York Times acknowledged the merits of Mauro’s findings, which multiple outlets have covered. Following the revelations, President Trump’s DOJ has reportedly launched an investigation into George Soros, his son Alex, and the Open Society Foundations.
Mauro told Skorski that the American public must understand the danger of allowing billions of dollars in foreign-backed influence operations to support groups working hand-in-hand with terrorist movements: “This is not just political activism. It is funding that has empowered extremists who openly justify terrorism and promote violence in the United States.”
