Very Informative and Well Documented Piece on the Secular Government of Israel’s Heavily Funded Foreign Influence Campaign Targeting Christians and Conservatives

Very Informative and Documented Piece on the Secular Government of Israel’s Heavily Funded Foreign Influence Campaign Targeting Christians and Conservatives

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.”

11/2023: Amichai Chikli, Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, briefed 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 US 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 US policy certain bible references and criticism of Israel as antisemitism and directs 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 Israel 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 citizen, 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.

 

Resources:
https://t.me/LauraAbolichannel/76243
https://x.com/genxgirl1994/status/1974892550650544483?s=46