Qatar funding pro-Israel organizations
Qatar has donated $250,000 to some of the most
extreme pro-Israel organizations in the US, a report by the Electronic Intifada
has revealed.
The sums are believed to have been transferred by
Joseph Allaham, a lobbyist working for the Qatari government, specifically
through his firm Lexington Strategies, with some of the sums being paid as
recently as early 2018.
The sums include $100,000 to Our Soldiers Speak, an
organization that describes itself as the “vehicle through which the Israeli
army and the Israeli National Police dispatch senior officers to select
campuses overseas” and gives “briefings” to members of the US Congress.
The donations to Our Soldiers Speak are labelled as
contributions for “charitable goodwill”.
The document explicitly names Qatar’s ruler, Emir
Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, as the client of Allaham’s lobbying efforts for the
purpose of facilitating “dialogue with [the] Jewish community abroad and in the
United States.
