Israel’s 8th Front: Buying Influence Over Christian Zionism

In December 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told American evangelical leaders that Israel's war has an "eighth front": the fight for the "hearts and minds" of young people in the United States, particularly American conservatives.

This video follows the money and the paper trail behind that strategy. Drawing on Justice Department FARA filings, Israeli government procurement records, IRS tax filings, and leaked 2018 legal memos, we track who registered as a foreign agent, who didn't, and how millions of dollars are being spent by Israel to shape the future of Christian Zionism in America.

From a forty-one-foot trailer that began touring Southern California megachurches and a Justice Department filing that proposed geofencing more than 900 named churches, to efforts to shape how AI chatbots talk about Israel, a Capitol Hill lobbying push partly funded by Israel's Foreign Ministry, and paid influencers, this is the story of how a genuine, century-old religious movement became a line item in a foreign government's public relations budget.

*CHAPTERS:*
0:00 The eighth front
1:14 Where the belief started
3:22 The donors
6:44 The leaked memos
8:09 The demographic problem
9:35 The church filing
12:20 The Israel Experience
13:00 The lobbying
14:28 The sponsor list and a TV network
15:31 The pastors' trip
16:08 The AI front
17:00 The influencers
19:02 Congress
20:14 Where it all stands

*SOURCES:* DOJ FARA e-filings: Show Faith by Works (no. 7653, Sept. 27, 2025), Clock Tower X (no. 7649), Bridges Partners (no. 7652) | Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs procurement records nos. 4000604787 and 4000604952, Centers Committee protocol 366/2025 | Israeli Government Advertising Agency protocol 5451 | Israeli PMO, Netanyahu remarks to evangelical leaders (Dec. 31, 2025) | IFCJ Form 990, FY2024 (ProPublica) | Public Citizen and Quincy Institute FARA complaint to DOJ (Nov. 12, 2025) | Canyon View Vineyard Church statement (Dec. 22, 2025) | Quincy Institute, "The Eighth Front: Inside Israel's $1 Billion Influence Campaign" (July 24, 2026) | Quincy Institute, AI chatbot influence report (July 28, 2026) | Drop Site News: Eagles' Wings investigation (May 5, 2026), Google $45M contract (Sept. 3, 2025) | The Guardian, Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, leaked Israeli memos (Aug. 17, 2024) | Lee Fang, leaked Israeli docs (Aug. 17, 2024) | Ynetnews/Reuters, BDS response program (Dec. 29, 2017) | Ynetnews, megachurch influence push (June 13, 2026) | WORLD, mobile museum (Feb. 6, 2026) | All Israel News, "Israel Experience" exhibition (June 16, 2026) | The Washington Spectator, Anne Nelson | Responsible Statecraft, Show Faith by Works filing; "Who are the 'influencers' Israel is paying $7k per post?" (Sept. 2025) | JTA/Jerusalem Post, Asaf Elia-Shalev, "Esther Project" | WORLD, Christianity Today, Daily Caller, Ynetnews interviews with Chad Schnitger | Christian Post, Faith & Freedom Coalition disavowal | Baptist Standard, Houston Chronicle, Texas Baptist letter (Nov. 2025) | Fox News, Baptist Press, Ambassadors Summit (Dec. 2025) | The American Conservative, Fares Abraham (Dec. 14, 2025) | Faithfully Magazine, 1,000-pastor trip | Jewish Insider, Israel365 delegation (Aug. 2025) | Ynetnews, Truthout, Parscale and Salem Media | Mondoweiss, Andrew Ancheta, congressional travel (Dec. 2025) | The Jewish Chronicle, CUFI summit (July 2, 2025) | CUFI 2025 Summit lineup | Religion Dispatches, CUFI summit (July 2026) | Louisville Public Media, MAGA Kentucky PAC | +972 Magazine, Adelson/CUFI funding (Jan. 13, 2021) | Center for Public Integrity, Adelson giving | The Forward, Adelson/AIPAC (2014) | Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man (2022) | Jewish Funders Network, LobeLog, Paul Singer/Philos | Mark A. Chancey, Bible Interp, Passages (Sept. 2017) | Times of Israel, J. Weekly, Kidron/Brog | David Brog, Standing with Israel (2006) | Charisma News, "Where Your Israel Donation Really Goes" (Oct. 22, 2013) | Jonathan Moorhead, JETS 53:4 (2010) | Mother Jones, Kiera Butler, IFCJ | The Washington Post, Michelle Boorstein, Marquette poll (Jan. 3, 2026) | Council on Foreign Relations, Congressional Research Service, U.S. aid to Israel | Pew Research Center, evangelical population

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