If you are a Christian living in the Western United States, you have almost certainly been targeted with pro-Israel, anti-Palestine propaganda, paid for directly by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. Your searches, location, and internet activity is being monitored by Israel, and your algorithms and search results across multiple platforms are being manipulated by Israeli government in what its American partner calls the “largest geofencing and targeted Christian digital campaign ever.”
Amid a massive drop in support from the Christian community, Israel is spending millions of dollars to target individuals entering churches or Christian colleges with ads, and paying pastors across the country to promote propaganda and false “anti-Palestinian” narratives every Sunday, documents filed with the United States’ Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) show.
The 86-page disclosure reveals that Israel is recruiting Hollywood celebrities and sports stars to promote the country, while also manipulating Christians’ social media feeds. And they are doing it by spying on you through your phone.
I’m not surprised. USian evangelicals have been solidly zionist for at least a century, probably hitting a high around the mid-90s apocalypse fever, if I had to guess. Obviously any change in the demographics would scare Isntreal shitless. It’s already hard to engage with evangelicals and this will only make it that much harder.
If anyone has any good reading recommendations on arguing with Christian zionists, I’d appreciate it. Better yet, something challenging zionism from their own perspective that I could encourage them to read - bonus points if it doesn’t rely on liberation theology, as the ones I’ve been unfortunate enough to come across find anything Catholic to be inherently suspect.