Today, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive Officer Ambassador Mark
D. Wallace and CEP President Frances F. Townsend call on all legal firms
representing Qatar, including particularly those that have taken strong public
stances in support of Israel and in opposition to growing antisemitism on U.S.
soil, to cease all work for the Government of Qatar until it remands Hamas
leadership into U.S., Israeli, or appropriate third party custody and ensures
the safe return of every hostage.





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CEP CALLS ON U.S. LAW FIRMS TO CEASE WORK WITH QATAR UNTIL HAMAS LEADERSHIP IS
REMANDED


(New York, N.Y.) — Today, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Chief Executive
Officer Ambassador Mark D. Wallace and CEP President Frances F. Townsend call
on all legal firms representing Qatar, including particularly those that have
taken strong public stances insupport
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of Israel and in opposition to growing antisemitism on U.S. soil, to cease all
work for the Government of Qatar until it remands Hamas leadership into U.S.,
Israeli, or appropriate third party custody and ensures the safe return of
every hostage.



Ambassador Wallace and former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Frances F.
Townsend stated:



“Regrettably, many U.S. law firms that have taken the admirable step of
publicly denouncing antisemitism and vowing to combat its rise in the U.S.
continue to represent Qatar. No respectable law firm, and certainly no firm
that has taken such a step, should do business with the Qatari government while
it harbors the orchestrators of the greatest massacre of Jews in a single day
since the Holocaust. We call on American law firms to stop representing Qatar.”



Qatar
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complicit in the harboring of Hamas leadership, the promotion of their
terrorism activities, and the proliferation of their vile antisemitism:



Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh
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the October 7 massacre from his office in Doha, as did his predecessor,Khaled
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October 11, Haniyeh called for supporters around the world to join Hamas in its
barbaric violence in avideo address
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aired on the Qatari-owned and controlled network, Al Jazeera. Since the
attacks, Qatar has hosted at least two meetings, onOctober 14
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andOctober 31
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, between Hamas leadership and its main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It is nowrumored
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that Qatar has allowed Haniyeh safe passage to Iran on his private jet.



Qatar itself engages in and provides a platform for overt anti-Israel and
antiemsitic rhetoric. Mere hours after the slaughter on October 7, Qatar’s
foreign ministryclaimed
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to “hold Israel solely responsible for the ongoing escalation [i.e. the
massacre of Israeli women and children by Hamas] due to its ongoing
violations.” Qatar’s leaders also strongly disputed Hamas’s well-documented
brutality, with Israeli delegations required toconvince
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this was a massacre, that…they butchered us.”



Qatar is a hotbed of antisemitic sentiment that not only echoes but influences
Hamas’s brutality. Religious leader Ali al-Karadaghi and his late predecessor,
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, both provide Hamas with an alleged pretext (in the form of
Fatwa) for its terror acts. Al-Karadaghi spews this violent rhetoric from
Qatar, as did his predecessor.



More than 80 American law firms have signed a letter
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denouncing recent demonstrations of anti-Semitism on college campuses, calling
on college administrations to take action against “rallies calling for the
death of Jews and the elimination of the state of Israel.”



Yet some of these same firms continue to do business with a government that
regularly allows and even sponsors such calls, not to mention accommodating,
defending, and providing cover for the most notorious murderers of Jews the
world has seen since the Holocaust.



CEP calls on McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, and Quinn
Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, among other signatories, to clarify and
suspend any and all work for the Qatar government.



To read The Times’ report on CEP’s call to boycott Qatar’s London hotels, click
here
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To read The Wall Street Journal’s report on UANI and CEP’s previous call to
action, please clickhere
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To read The Telegraph’s report citing CEP’s Chief Executive Officer Mark
Wallace’s call for a Qatari asset freeze until it surrenders Hamas leadership
to the U.S. and/or Israel, please clickhere
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To read The Washington Post’s report citing CEP CEO Mark Wallace on Qatar’s
role in harboring Hamas, please clickhere
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To read CEP’s report, Qatar: Extremism and Terrorism, please click here
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To read CEP’s HARBORS Campaign Report on Qatar, please click here
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