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Cliff May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, details how Qatar's Al Thani family, who sheltered Hamas masterminds, uses Doha-based Al Jazeera as a sophisticated propaganda platform, sometimes pro-Muslim Brotherhood, to ex

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Society & Culture, Books, Arts

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Cliff May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, details how Qatar's Al Thani family, who sheltered Hamas masterminds, uses Doha-based Al Jazeera as a sophisticated propaganda platform, sometimes pro-Muslim Brotherhood, to exert influence abroad.
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0:25.7

for Defense of Democracies about Qatar, his article in the Washington Times, and about Al Jazeera,

0:32.8

located, headquartered entirely in Doha, the capital of Qatar.

0:38.6

Does Al Jazeera maintain a separate understanding of the world?

0:42.4

No.

0:43.2

Cliff is very clear about what Al Jazeera responds to and what it works for.

0:50.4

The Althani family.

0:51.7

Here Cliff May describes the Althani family and their agenda,

0:55.9

recently in the news, because they were sheltering, hosting,

1:01.3

the Hamas masterminds of October of 2023.

1:05.9

Cliff May, more of this tonight.

1:08.0

I think they are running.

1:09.0

I think they do instruct that.

1:10.3

The Al Jaze here doesn't do anything that the the Alfani family doesn't want them to do. I don't think

1:16.0

it's making its money from advertisements, TV commercials, or that sort of thing. It's a multimedia

1:22.9

platform, propaganda, sometimes very specifically pro-Muslim Brotherhood,

1:31.4

sometimes only subtly, depends on what language into what audience, very sophisticated.

1:37.2

Al Jazeera and the BBC, people go back and forth between the two.

1:40.6

It is an amazing propaganda platform.

1:43.7

For many years, they had a particular program

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