Georgetown Took a Billion Dollars from Qatar. Then It Gave the Emir's Mother a Medal.

THE NUMBERS, NAMES, AND PUBLIC STATEMENTS by those Georgetown chose to honor, hire, and tenure are all undisputed. A new report from the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy presents the details in 135 pages. You can read it. Georgetown hopes you don't.

START WITH THE MONEY.

Qatar is a desert kingdom with a population of 300,000 citizens. Over the last twenty years, it has given Georgetown $1.073 BILLION. That number comes from Georgetown's own audited financial statements.

The number Georgetown reported to the Department of Education is $927 MILLION.

The gap is $146 MILLION.
Qatar paid it. Georgetown spent it. Nobody told the federal government.

Then there is the tuition. ISGAP estimates another $102 MILLION paid from the emir's personal scholarship fund for Qatari students at the Doha campus.

Federal law requires disclosure of foreign gifts and contracts above a certain threshold under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act. Georgetown did not disclose these payments as mandated.

A QUARTER BILLION IN UNDECLARED CASH.

Accepting and not disclosing such funds from a foreign regime — especially one that hosts the political bureau of Hamas in five-star hotels — could expose Georgetown to potential violations of federal law, including penalties under the Higher Education Act for non-compliance with disclosure requirements.

That is the floor. The ceiling is much higher.

THE MEDAL

On April 16, 2025, Georgetown's interim president Robert Groves and School of Foreign Service dean Joel Hellman flew to Doha to renew the Qatar Foundation contract for another ten years. Then the two of them stood on a stage and presented the Georgetown President's Medal, one of the highest honors the university confers, to Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of the reigning emir.

Georgetown says the medal is reserved for individuals showing outstanding commitment to peace, justice, and intercultural understanding.

Eighteen months earlier, Sheikha Moza posted a tribute to Yahya Sinwar, a man associated with planning for October 7 and accused of ordering acts of violence, including rape, arson, and kidnapping of babies.

She wrote: "They thought he died, but he lives. He will live on, and they will be gone."

Sheikha Moza has also publicly stated that "the entire nervous system of the Qatari state is in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood."

Georgetown gave her the medal anyway.

Standing next to her was Lolwah Alkhater — Qatar's Minister of Education and a sitting member of Georgetown Qatar's advisory board.

• August 2024: Mourned Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh as "the righteous servant."
• November 2024: Wrote a poem eulogizing Sinwar
• January 2025: Published a parable praising the Qassam Brigades

These are individuals Georgetown has chosen to honor.

THE GRADUATES

The School of Foreign Service is the largest feeder of the United States Foreign Service — training diplomats, intelligence officers, and cable writers.

Meet Maher Bitar.
Northern Virginia kid. Georgetown SFS class of 2003. On campus, he served as chapter president of Students for Justice in Palestine — the same SJP that today hosts vigils for Hamas martyrs and decorates the campus with the inverted red triangles Hamas paints on Israeli targets.

Bitar did not stop at the campus gates:

• → UNRWA — the UN agency that employed at least twelve confirmed Hamas operatives on October 7
• → Obama's NSC — Director for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs
• → Capitol Hill — General Counsel of the House Intelligence Committee under Adam Schiff and the architect of the Trump impeachment.
• → Biden's NSC — promoted to Senior Director for Intelligence Programs

THAT TITLE MEANS HE OVERSAW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE SEVENTEEN AGENCIES OF THE AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY. He sat in the most sensitive meetings in Washington. He saw the rawest reporting on Hamas, Iran, Hezbollah, and the Qassam Brigades.

The former SJP president at Georgetown spent four years controlling the flow of American intelligence into the West Wing.

He is not alone.

Hady Amr is at Georgetown SFS. He founded the Brookings Doha Center — the Qatari-funded outpost that translates Doha's foreign policy into Beltway English. Under Biden, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He was the chief American envoy to the West Bank and Gaza. He shuttled to Doha throughout the war. He resigned last year in protest. He thought Biden was too pro-Israel.

Huma Abedin — Georgetown SFS 1996. Her mother edits a Muslim Brotherhood–linked journal in London. Abedin spent two decades as Hillary Clinton's closest aide. She had access to everything Hillary had access to — including every cable from every embassy during Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State. She is now married to Alex Soros the Billionaire chaos maker.

Sylvia Yacoub — fresh out of the master's program. A Swedish military veteran in her ethics class recalled her telling the room she would use her future State Department job to change policy from within. She was hired as a career foreign service officer. In November 2024, she publicly accused Joe Biden of complicity in genocide.

These are examples of Georgetown graduates and the impact of funding.

THE PROFESSOR

Jonathan A.C. Brown holds the Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown. He is the most dangerous professor on the campus. That is not a figure of speech. That is a description of his record.

Brown is married to Laila al-Arian, a producer at Al Jazeera. His father-in-law is Sami al-Arian — the man who built the American operation of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian pleaded guilty to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and was deported to Turkey under Barack Obama.

UNDER OBAMA. READ THAT TWICE. THAT IS HOW CLEAN THE CASE WAS.

Brown:

• Called the IDF "the most effective child-killing machine in modern history."
• Defended Palestinians' right to attack Jewish civilians
• Denied that Hamas raped Israeli women on October 7 — dismissing documented evidence as propaganda
• Framed the massacre as resistance
• Tweeted that he hoped the Iranian regime would bomb and kill American soldiers stationed in the region

He was placed on paid administrative leave — not terminated.

Two months ago, in an online discussion about the rape gangs that terrorized British towns for two decades, Brown told British citizens to "GET OVER IT." Under his own name. With Georgetown in his bio.

In 2019, Texas-based imam Yasir Qadhi publicly thanked Allah for placing "a Muslim" at Georgetown in the form of Brown. Qadhi is a co-founder of EPIC City — the planned Islamic community outside Plano now under investigation by the Texas Attorney General.

Brown is not a rogue. He is the chair holder, senior scholar, and the man jointly installed at Georgetown's lectern by Saudi, Qatari, and Brotherhood money for a quarter century.

The man who built the building around him was John Esposito, founding director of the Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Esposito was trained by Ismail al-Faruqi, who wrote that "the Zionist State, its army, and other public institutions must be destroyed." Esposito served as a defense witness for the Holy Land Foundation after federal prosecutors proved it funneled $12 million to Hamas.

The current director of ACMCU is Nader Hashemi. He blamed the Mossad for the attempted assassination of Salman Rushdie.

This influence is present at the institutional level.

THE DAUGHTER

A current graduate student in the Master of Arts in Arab Studies program is Mapheze Saleh.

Her father is Ahmad Yousef, a former senior advisor to Ismail Haniyeh and a current Hamas official.

She studied at the Hamas-controlled Islamic University of Gaza.
She worked at the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She worked at the Qatari Embassy in New Delhi.

Eight days after October 7, her father posted a video celebrating the massacre.

Georgetown enrolled her anyway.

THE RETURNS

Per student, Georgetown spends dramatically more in Doha than in Washington. In 2007, the Qatar campus burned $1.12 MILLION PER STUDENT. The pattern repeats year after year.

Faculty in Doha receive:

• 1.5x their normal salaries
• Free housing
• Business class flights
• Private school tuition for their children
• Access to Qatari research grants

The only catch: proposals must benefit Qatar and align with the Qatari national vision.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education named Georgetown one of the ten most censorious U.S. colleges in 2019. After the listing, the university doubled down.

Topics off limits in Doha:

• Criticism of the emir
• Examination of Qatari support for Hamas
• Scholarship critical of Iran

This is not academic freedom. This is a transaction.

THE FIX

The DETERRENT Act has passed the House. It would:

• Lower foreign gift disclosure thresholds to $50,000 — and to ZERO for hostile regimes
• Require waivers for contracts with countries of concern
• Condition Title IV federal student aid on compliance with Section 117

The Senate has not moved. Georgetown wants it to stay that way.

Georgetown is projected to receive approximately $640 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING for the 2026–2027 academic year, while continuing to accept Qatari funding, honor individuals with controversial public statements, and pay full salary to faculty on leave.

A pipeline that runs from Red Square at Georgetown → through Students for Justice in Palestine → into the State Department → into the National Security Council → into the office that decides what intelligence the President of the United States gets to see.

THE RECEIPTS ARE IN THE REPORT. THE CHECK FROM THE TREASURY IS IN THE MAIL.

The full report — "Georgetown, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood" — was published in 2025 by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. Charles Asher Small leads the institute. The investigators built the financial reconstruction from Georgetown's own audited statements and DoEd filings.