How Israel is Weaponizing Faith in America

As its popularity in the United States declines, Israel is funding the most extensive influence campaign in the United States to strengthen support among evangelical churches, which were previously regarded as a steadfast base for the Jewish state. Israel’s Foreign Ministry has engaged an American company to manage the campaign, intending to allocate just over $4 million to digitally market pro-Israel information in the Western US, directed at Christian churches, Christian colleges, and Christian events. Documents, submitted on September 18, 2025, under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), indicate that the San Diego-based company Show Faith by Works, LLC will carry out what the company describes as the largest Christian Church geofencing campaign ever conducted on American soil.

Geofencing marketing involves creating virtual boundaries around specific physical locations to trigger targeted advertising when mobile users enter or leave those defined areas. Based on the FARA document, Show Faith by Works, LLC proposes to target churches or places of worship and track attendees and continue to target them after they leave the geofence zone with pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian ads, and calls to action. The campaign will also be supported on the ground with mobile exhibits depicting the October 7th event, although it is doubtful that it will mention Israel’s  Hannibal Directive.

In Exhibit A of its FARA registration statement, Show Faith by Works, LLC presents its “anti-Palestinian” section of the plan (Page 57), which characterises Palestinians primarily through the prism of Hamas. It asserts that Palestinians are complicit in Hamas’s leadership, financing and military operations, and accuses them of sheltering terrorists, hiding weapons in schools and hospitals, and celebrating the October 7 attack. The materials stress that there has never been a Palestinian state, that Hamas’s and Iran’s goals are “genocidal”. The filings also note attacks on American Christian aid workers in Gaza.

The campaign’s messaging in support of Israel aims to directly engage pastors and Christian audiences regarding the biblical and historical “importance” of Israel. The materials highlight a Jewish presence in the region prior to 1948, the legitimacy of the state, its commitment to safeguarding non-Jewish communities, and Israel’s initiatives to maintain civilian safety and demonstrate “moral superiority” during conflicts. The proposal distinctly highlights the main disinformation tactics employed by Israel, which the government has utilized since October 7 to rationalize the genocide in Gaza and the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in the Strip. The Israeli government has allocated unprecedented resources to influence American perceptions in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has termed the nation’s “eighth front”, which aims to address Israel’s increasing struggle for narratives and influence global public opinion.

DOCUMENT: Show Faith by Works, LLC  Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) document and Contract to manage and digitally market pro-Israel information in the Western US on behalf of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Source: eFile FARA)
Show Faith by Works, LLC FARA Documents

Recent surveys indicate that US evangelicals were beginning to show divisions, particularly as younger evangelicals appear less inclined to support Israel. This shift comes on the heels of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a leading evangelical figure who resonated with young Americans. Notably, in the month before his assassination, he had openly criticised Israel and Netanyahu’s campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Those close to Charlie have spoken out and exposed the immense pressure Charlie faced from wealthy pro-Israeli donors, especially as he was stirring TPUSA towards a direction that was increasingly critical of Israel’s actions in both Palestine and the US.

Israel’s influence campaign in the US introduces an additional element to Israel’s communication strategy in the US, enhancing a $1.5 million monthly agreement for AI-powered social media efforts with ex-Trump campaign strategist Brad Parscale, along with a partnership with a company named Bridge Partners to establish an influencer network known as the Esther Project. As per the invoices included in the filing, Show Faith by Works LLC, which was established on August 5, anticipates receiving over $3.25 million within a span of five months, distributed in equal payments through the global advertising powerhouse Havas Media. Additionally, they are demanding an extra budget of $835,000 for equipment and growth. The company disclosed that it received an initial payment of approximately $326,000 on September 18, just days prior to its official registration with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent. This setup resembles the contracts of Parscale and Bridges, which also identify Havas as a middleman, highlighting the firm’s involvement in managing Israel’s foreign-agent influence operations in the U.S.

DOCUMENT:  Clock Tower X LLC, Bad Parscale company  Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) document and Contract to provide strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Havas’ engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat antisemitism, and more…(Source: eFile FARA)
Clock Tower X LLC FARA Fiilings

It is crucial to grasp that these influence operations are components of a larger initiative that Israel initiated in 2018, aimed at perfecting the technique of navigating and channelling funds through intricate corporate and nonprofit organizations while evading registration as a foreign agent. Up to this point, no one has dedicated the effort to establish a timeline that outlines when and how Israel solidified Christian Zionist backing as a steadfast foundation of U.S. policy. GenXGirl‘s latest Substack article is now shedding light on this process with significant detail…

GenXGirl reports on Substack…

Israel’s Coordinated Campaign to Propagandize Conservatives in America

This is a timeline of a sophisticated, well-funded and deliberately opaque influence operation conducted by Israel and its allies within the US to target conservatives. Polling data shows Israel has permanently lost the American left, and they are losing the American right, particularly young conservatives. Israel’s campaign seeks to recast criticism of a foreign nation’s policy as a form of bigotry, weaponize faith, and co-opt American institutions, all while systematically evading the laws designed to protect the American public from such foreign propaganda.

Laying the Legal and Ideological Groundwork

2018: Years before the public-facing campaign would begin, the groundwork was being laid in the shadows. The Israeli Knesset, anticipating a need for more deniable channels of influence, sought legal advice from US attorneys specializing in the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). Their goal was not compliance, but circumvention; to learn how to funnel money and directives without the transparent label of “foreign agent.”Hasbara

11/2023: Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, briefs Knesset lawmakers on the growing problem of anti-war protests among young Americans, particularly on elite university campuses. Chikli’s solution was to go on the offensive. He launched a targeted push to counter critics, a blueprint that would define the next two years:

• to boost online support for Israel,
• target advocacy for Palestinians,
• crush student protests to divest from Israel on U.S. college campuses, and
• to codify the IHRA definition of antisemitism into U.S. law at every level of government.

9/18/2024: In response to the growing criticism and opposition to Israel within the American right, the Conference of Christian Presidents for Israel (CCPI) was founded by Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Michele Bachmann (former US House Rep), Luke Moon (Gen Zion & the Philos Project), and Mario Bramnick (Latino Coalition for Israel). Patterned explicitly after the long-established Jewish “Conference of Presidents,” its mission is to cement Christian Zionist support as an unshakable pillar of U.S. policy, with a specific focus on supporting Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank.

10/7/2024: The ideological justification for silencing critics of Israel is provided by The Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther.” This document, which derives its data from Israeli-funded and managed NGOs like Canary Mission, NCRI, ISGAP, and the ADL, creates a roadmap for redefining political criticism of Israel as antisemitism and ultimately, as a form of terrorism to be criminalized. While this roadmap was initially used on student protesters, it would also be used to silence conservatives (Netanyahu’s Woke-Reich isn’t just an insult).

12/2024: The Israeli Knesset puts significant financial muscle behind the effort, approving a massive $150 million budget for “hasbara“, a euphemism for state-sponsored propaganda targeting the U.S. and the West. This funding stream would become the lifeblood of the influence machine.

Seizing the American Apparatus

1/7/2025: ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt travels to the Israeli Knesset to introduce the concept of the “8th Front War on Information in America,” formalizing the idea that American public discourse is a battlefield to be dominated.

1/29/2025: The influence campaign scores a major victory. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14188, building on a 2019 order that adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism. This order effectively codifies into U.S. policy certain bible references and criticism of Israel as antisemitism, directing the full force of the federal government to use this definition to combat so-called “hate.”

2/5/2025: In a move of profound significance, yet little known, newly appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi, on her first day, disbands the Foreign Influence Task Force, the very DOJ office responsible for enforcing FARA. The change specifically limits DOJ prosecutors from criminally charging those involved in public-relations work and policy advocacy on behalf of foreign businesses and nonprofits. This deliberate incapacitation of the enforcement mechanism gave a green light to foreign influence operatives, ensuring that the Knesset’s 2018 plan to skirt FARA could proceed with minimal risk of prosecution.

2/7/2025: The fusion of state and faith is cemented with the appointment of fervent Christian Zionist Paula White-Cain as White House Faith Leader, placing a key ideological ally in a position of high-level influence.

Mobilizing the Messengers: Faith and Influencers

4/11/2025: Paula White-Cain interviews Benjamin Netanyahu on Daystar TV, a Christian Zionist network that broadcasts from Israel. During the interview, she proclaims that Christians must visit Israel to go to heaven, a stark example of theological blackmail being deployed for political ends.

7/20/2025: The Israeli Foreign Ministry announces a program to send 550 U.S. Influencers on fully paid trips to Israel by year’s end, with the goal of creating a cadre of sympathetic social media voices.

7/28/2025: Daystar TV hosts a conference in Israel, featuring Paula White-Cain, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Sarah Netanyahu. Publicity videos were produced by The Meaning Channel, run by Israeli-American dual citizens, Nav Jacobi. Netanyahu announces Israel’s “8th Front War on Information in America,” to combat the “lies” and White-Cain reiterates her divine ultimatum: “God will only bless those who bless Israel.” The event is sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Tourism, Israel Foreign Ministry, Shomron Regional Council, and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

7/30/2025 – 7/31/2025: Show Faith by Works, LLC, a mysterious marketing entity linked to Chad Schnitger (who is also connected to Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition), registered in California.

7/31/2025: Simultaneously, the CCPI holds a private meeting to counter the “woke-right defamation of Israel,” targeting influencers like Theo Von, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, and Steve Bannon. Attendees include:

• Ralph Reed, Faith & Freedom Coalition
• Luke Moon, Gen Zion & the Philos Project
• Apostle Mario Bramnick, Latino Coalition for Israel
• Tony Perkins, Family Research Council
• Jewish Network Syndicate (JNS)
• Yehuda Kaploun, is an Israeli-American Chabad rabbi, nominated in 2025 by U.S. President Donald Trump to be the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism
• Representatives from the Israeli government
• Yair Netanyahu (Benjamin Netanyahu’s son)

8/4/2025: Billionaire Bill Ackman hosts a meeting in the Hamptons to discuss support for Israel with influencers including Charlie Kirk, Seth Dillon, CJ Pearson, Xaviaer DuRousseous, Emily Saves America, Lou Holly, Kristan Whann, and UK attorney Natasha Hausdorff, as well as others. Reports allege it was a high-pressure “intervention” to bring Kirk and others into line, with Hausdorff seen screaming at Kirk.

8/10/2025: The influencer’s payoff begins. Israel365 takes a group of U.S. influencers, including Xaviaer DuRousseous, Emily Saves America, Jeremy Abramson, Cam Higby, Brooke Goldstein, Jayne Zirkle, Eitan Fischberger, and Fabian Garcia, on a paid trip to Israel. They meet with U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Israeli officials, subsequently flooding their social media with pro-Israel content.

The Catalyst and the Corporate Veil

9/10/2025: The assassination of Charlie Kirk, a prominent pro-Israel Christian youth leader, acts as a violent catalyst. It exposes the deep fissures over Israel within the American right and triggers a wave of suspicion and blame.

9/26/2025 – 9/28/2025: In the wake of the crisis, the influence apparatus moves to formalize and obscure its operations. Two entities finally register under FARA, but in a way that hides the source of their funds and allows them to operate under the umbrella of Pam Bondi’s February 5th directive, which limits DOJ prosecutors from criminally charging those involved in public-relations work and policy advocacy on behalf of foreign businesses and nonprofits.

• Bridges Partners, LLC, owned by Israelis Yair Levi & Uri Steinberg (a former Israeli Ministry of Tourism official), registered as an agent for Israel’s “Esther Project” influencer campaign. It received $900,000 from Havas Media, a German affiliate acting as a financial cut-out for the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
• Show Faith by Works, LLC, the entity linked to Chad Schnitger and Ralph Reed (CCPI member), also registered. Its task is to use geo-fencing and data harvesting to target 4 States and Millions of church goers and Christian university students with pro-Israel propaganda. It received $3,258,961, also funneled through Havas Media.

Simultaneously, on 9/28, the Israeli lobby-funded propaganda outlet, Jewish Network Syndicate (JNS), hosted a conference in New York titled “Confronting Terror and Defending Israel: JNS Visionary Leadership Assembly“. Meeting attendees included members of CCPI, and the topic of discussion was supporting and implementing Israel’s 8th Front War on Information in America as a private and government partnership. Speakers included:

• Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister
• Mark Levin – Fox News Commentator
• Leo Terrell – DOJ, Antisemitism Task Force
• Martin Marx – Special Assistant to President Trump & White House Director of Jewish Engagement
• Ofir Akunis – Consul General of Israel in New York
• Danny Danon – Israel UN Ambassador
• Shaun Maguire – American venture capitalist and political activist

Conclusion: The Investment in Perception

10/1/2025: The Israeli Knesset approves an additional $40 million for the Foreign Ministry’s hasbara budget, $24 million for global influence campaigns and $16 million to finance more international delegations.

This timeline reveals not a series of coincidences, but a coherent, multi-pronged strategy. It is a campaign that leverages faith, fear, and finance to manipulate American public opinion and policy, operating through a network of political operatives, influencers, and shell companies, all designed to serve the interests of a foreign nation at the expense of open, democratic discourse in the United States.

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