Charles Small, executive director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), has issued stark warnings about what he describes as a long-running and largely undocumented foreign influence campaign operating inside American higher education. According to Small, more than $100 billion in funds linked to the Muslim Brotherhood have entered the United States over the past two decades, much of it flowing into elite universities with limited transparency or oversight.

Small alleges that at least $1.3 billion was directed to Texas A&M University, where ISGAP identified 504 research projects that granted intellectual property rights to the Qatari regime. Among those projects, Small says his team flagged 58 with dual-use military implications and 13 involving nuclear-related military technologies. He argues that such arrangements raise serious national security concerns, particularly when sensitive research is tied to foreign governments with strategic interests that may conflict with those of the United States.

Less than two weeks after ISGAP released its second report highlighting these findings, Texas A&M announced the closure of its campus in Qatar. While the university did not publicly link the decision to the report, Small says the timing reinforces the need for a comprehensive federal investigation. ISGAP has formally called on U.S. authorities, including the Department of Energy, to examine how foreign funding is influencing research priorities and technology transfers at American institutions.

Small further alleges that Georgetown University received approximately $1 billion in Qatari funding. He notes that Georgetown operates one of the most influential diplomatic training programs in the United States, educating future policymakers, diplomats, and international leaders. The presence of such funding, he argues, raises profound questions about foreign leverage over institutions shaping U.S. foreign policy thinking at the highest levels.

Beyond financial and security concerns, Small links these funding streams to what he describes as a growing ideological shift on Western campuses. He warns of a “red-green alliance,” in which radical left-wing movements and Islamist ideologies converge. According to Small, a new generation of graduates from elite universities in Europe and North America is now openly supporting and praising Hamas in public demonstrations.

Small describes Hamas as a genocidal, antisemitic organization headquartered in Qatar that openly advocates the subjugation of women, the murder of gay people, and the destruction of democratic systems. He argues that continued engagement with Qatari funding by political leaders, university administrators, and religious institutions reflects a dangerous willingness to ignore these realities in exchange for financial gain.

ISGAP frames these allegations as evidence of a deliberate influence campaign designed to weaken democratic values, normalize extremist ideologies, and reshape intellectual discourse in the West. Small maintains that without transparency, enforcement of existing disclosure laws, and serious federal oversight, American universities risk becoming conduits for foreign agendas fundamentally hostile to U.S. interests and democratic principles.