Benjamin Netanyahu Reveals Plan To Win Back Evangelicals

Benjamin Netanyahu has plummeting popularity, and he is in part responsible for Israel’s decline in support in the West, even among Evangelicals. And so, amidst the PR turmoil, Benjamin Netanyahu, during his tour of the United States, held a session with various influencers where he was asked about securing support for Israel among Evangelicals specifically. Netanyahu’s answer says the quiet part aloud and is grotesque to any patriotic American.

Debra Lea is a Jewish influencer who asked her Prime Minister about the “Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the potential loss of evangelical support for the state of Israel.” The question presupposes what Evangelical Dark Web has talked about recently: Charlie Kirk was the most prominent Zionist on the Right who had credibility with a younger audience. Lea asked Netanyahu about what the backup plan was in the event that Evangelical support was lost.

Netanyahu’s answer:

Christian influencers, okay? He said, he talked about the woke reich. He said, I call it the woke right. That’s a brilliant, I don’t know why. The woke right, because these people, they’re not any different from the woke left. I mean, they’re insane, they’re amazing. But they’re actually meeting on some of the things. And what we have to do is we have to secure that part of our base of our support in the United States, that is being challenged systematically.

A lot of this is done with money. Money of NGOs, fast. Money of governments, faster. Okay? We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers. I think you should also talk to them if you have a chance. To that community. They’re very important. And secondly, we’re going to have to use the tools of battle.

You know, the weapons change over time. You can’t fight today with swords. That doesn’t work very well. Okay? And you can’t fight with cavalry. That doesn’t work very well. And you have these new things, you know, like drones, things like that. I won’t get into that. But we have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefields in which we’re engaged. And the most important ones are the social media. And the most important purchase that is going on right now is, class, swords.

TikTok. TikTok, number one, number one. And I hope [the sale of TikTok USA] goes through because it can be consequential. And the other one, what’s the other one that’s most important? X. Very good. And, you know, so we have to talk to Elon. He’s not an enemy. He’s a friend. We should talk to him. Now, if we can get those two things, we get a lot and I could go on on other things, but that’s not the point right now.

We have to fight the fight, okay? To give direction to the Jewish people and give direction to our non-Jewish friends or those who could be our Jewish friends. Are we going to succeed with everyone? No. Will there be a strong counterpoint? Yes.

Netanyahu begins by pushing the “woke right” myth that was promoted by James Lindsay and has no coherent definition. Netanyahu then conjectures about foreign money being used to influence the right to oppose Israel, which has no evidence. Currently, Qatar is the favored target. Nevertheless, the debates about Christ or Chaos and Christian Nationalism are largely what birthed Evangelical opposition to Modern Israel. Christians began asking questions about why American politicians care more for a godless nation than their own people, and the answers they found were insufficient or even grotesque, as shown by Ted Cruz. And this is before getting into the moving theological claims.

From there, Netanyahu pivots to discussing 5th-generation warfare, where the battlefield is omnipresent, even gesturing at his phone. He stressed the importance of controlling social media, highlighting the Jewish takeover of TikTok and a, perhaps dubious, friendship with Elon Musk. Essentially, Netanyahu wants to censor social media either by overt censorship or by rigging the algorithms for his influencers to succeed.

It’s unsurprising that the Israeli government has a myriad of paid influencers in the United States, but Netanyahu just alludes to it matter-of-factly with no regard for the optics of how an American audience would receive his words. To the hubris, the clip was seen by millions on social media, where Netanyahu openly brags about having American influencers.

This clip will not win Evangelicals who were on the fence about Israel, as a foreign leader openly admits his ambitions to censor Americans on social media to benefit his country. Christians are leading the charge in tearing down woke blasphemy laws, but Netanyahu intends to reverse this progress to protect his reputation from scrutiny.