Response to AIPAC, CAIR and Qatar

Pro-Palestinian lobby groups in the USA

** According to their website, Council in American-Islamic Relations CAIR has an annual budget of $4 million. In 2014, the UAE designated them as a terrorist organisation because of their ties to extremist Muslim Brotherhood.

Six Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have alleged ties between the CAIR founders and Hamas. Both cofounder Omar Ahmad and Awad were involved previously with the Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP), a group described by the FBI, in 1993, as “intimately tied to the most senior Hamas leadership.”

In 2009, Fox News said that the FBI broke off formal outreach contacts with CAIR, and shunned all of its local chapters, concerned about CAIR’s ties to Hamas.

** Hamas Patron Qatar Has Spent $6 Billion Lobbying the U.S. Government and Funding Universities.

Qatar has given or contracted more than $5.6 billion to 61 American schools since 2007, including Ivy Leagues such as Harvard University, Yale University, Cornell University, and Stanford University, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The country has also doled out more than $243 million on lobbying efforts in the United States since 2015, with more than $16 million spent in 2023 alone. https://freebeacon.com/national-security/hamas-patron-qatar-has-spent-6-billion-lobbying-the-u-s-government-and-funding-universities/

Qatar Caught Funding Brown University Program to Turn Kids Against Israel. https://jewishbreakingnews.com/qatar-caught-funding-brown-university-program-to-turn-kids-against-israel/

Qatar has hired seven American lobbying firms and spent nearly $5 million on U.S. lobbying and media campaigns in an effort. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/10/qatar-spent-5-million-on-influence

*** Qatar-gate, Qatar, Morocco and Mauritania spent around €4 million in bribes on EU parliament members to influence 300 noted activities carried out between 2018 and 2022 .https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-qatargate-corruption-scandal-leaked-documents-pier-antonio-panzeri-francesco-giorgi-eva-kaili/

**American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
In 2020, total income was $987,221 and total expenses were $872,130. AMP provides “advocacy training,” including instruction on how to lobby politicians. Produces media and activism guidebooks, such as campus activism resources,  fact-sheets, and anti-normalization
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/american-muslims-for-palestine-amp/

**Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
SJP is the campus organization most directly responsible for creating a hostile campus environment saturated with anti-Israel events, BDS initiatives, and speakers. 
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/students-for-justice-in-palestine-sjp/

** Like all lobby group AIPAC has to publish its accounts – last year it spent under $4 million.

The US Chambers of Commerce spent $94 million

US Realtors – $72 million

George Soros – $31 million

Lobbying Spending Database | OpenSecrets AIPAC is not even in the top 20 https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cycle=2018

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Muslim group CAIR writing $1,000 checks for anti-Israel agitators who have been disciplined by colleges. https://nypost.com/2025/11/18/us-news/muslim-group-cair-cutting-1000-checks-for-anti-israel-agitators-who-have-been-disciplined-by-colleges/