When President Trump announced a Memorandum of Understanding to end the Iran War, MAGA world was supposed to celebrate. It was a clear foreign policy win: a halt to the fighting without dragging the nation into another endless war. Instead, the online right revolted.
Influencers hit the timeline simultaneously with identical talking points. They shared the same videos of JD Vance allegedly being snubbed, accused Trump of weakness, and circulated the same hyper-critical op-eds.
It looked like authentic, grassroots skepticism. It was actually a highly coordinated, multi-million-dollar foreign influence operation run by Trump’s own former campaign manager.
The investigative report by TIME reveals that Brad Parscale, the digital architect of Trump’s 2016 run, is on Israel’s payroll. His firm, Clock Tower X, was quiet-hired to run a massive digital campaign to shape conservative opinion.
The price tag is staggering. The State of Israel is paying Parscale’s firm $1.5 million every single month. That is an $18 million annual war chest targeting your social media feed.
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings, the contract explicitly details how Parscale promised to manufacture consent:
“Under the agreement, Parscale’s operation would produce 100 original pieces of content each month, with at least 80% aimed at Gen Z audiences across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts.”
He also promised to coordinate with Salem Media Network—where he serves as Chief Strategy Officer—and manipulate AI engines to output Israel-friendly search answers.
But behind the staggering budget lies a glaring reality: Brad Parscale is failing to deliver for his masters.
The $18 million annual contract was supposed to build an impenetrable shield of young conservative support. Instead, the cracks are widening. Despite flooding platforms with pro-Israel content and attempting to weaponize conservative punditry, the youth are tuning out. Parscale’s strategy relied on a 2016-era microtargeting playbook that has proved completely toothless against a generation of young conservative men who are deeply skeptical of foreign intervention, neocon compromises, and obvious astroturfing.
The immediate blowback to the Iran ceasefire proved that no amount of paid messaging can force-feed foreign priorities to an America First base. Parscale promised a seamless, digital narrative. He delivered a clunky, transparent propaganda campaign that has only succeeded in exposing the exact strings he was hired to pull. And the Israelis have noticed.
The Parscale-led effort continues, but neither the Trump Administration nor the Israelis appear happy about how it’s going. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government had hired Parscale to improve the nation’s standing among conservatives, only to watch support continue to erode on the American right and across the broader U.S. electorate. “We are pissed at Brad Parscale,” says the Israeli official familiar with the arrangement, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. “He was supposed to make things better. We have paid him lots of money. But what did he do with it? Things have only gotten worse.” According to the Pew Research Center, favorable views of both Israel and Netanyahuhave fallen since last year. Only 32% of Americans now view the Israeli government favorably, the lowest level in decades.In April, Pew found that Republicans with a negative view of Israel ticked up since last year, with 57% of young Republicans having an unfavorable view of Israel compared with 50% a year ago.
This desperate push for digital relevance is not an isolated experiment. It is the continuation of a broader, systemic panic within the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which has allotted $150 million toward public relations—or hasbara in Hebrew.
An earlier, parallel operation was exposed in late 2025 by Evangelical Dark Web. A FARA filing from September 2025 revealed the existence of “Show Faith by Works LLC,” a front group run by Chad Schnitger, CEO of the California chapter of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
While Parscale was hired to capture the online media ecosystem, Schnitger’s LLC was awarded a $3.25 million contract to run a physical and digital assault directly on American churches.
The disclosure documents revealed a massive targeting apparatus designed to geofence 303 American megachurches, capturing cellular location data from 3.9 million churchgoers. The target list reads like a rolodex of evangelical elite: John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church, Jack Graham’s Prestonwood Baptist, Matt Chandler’s The Village Church, Rick Warren’s Saddleback, and Josh Howerton’s Lakepointe Church, alongside dozens of Calvary Chapels.
Schnitger’s campaign sought to distribute “Pastoral Resource Packages” to pastors across the American Southwest, forcing a conflation between the modern, secular State of Israel and the biblical covenant. The operation even planned a physical presence at major evangelical gatherings, aiming to bring an immersive, VR-heavy “Mobile 10/7 Experience” to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, Greg Laurie’s Harvest Festival, and the G3 Conference.
The filings even named potential celebrity and pastoral partners they hoped to recruit to salvage their dying ideology among the youth, targeting high-profile figures like Tim Tebow, Steph Curry, Chris Pratt, Mark Driscoll, and Rick Warren.
Yet, like Parscale’s digital push, these elaborate, high-priced campaigns are hitting a wall of absolute indifference. For years, we have documented how the relationship between American Evangelicals and the State of Israel is entirely parasitic. They want Christian cash and political support, but they treat actual Christians with open hostility.
The core problem for both Parscale and Schnitger is that their messaging relies on a massive collapse of biblical and logical categories.Â
But younger Christians are recovering biblical distinctions, and they are refusing to grant a blank check of spiritual significance to a secular political power.
No amount of monthly $1.5 million retainers, geofencing parameters, or Salem Media integration can fix a fundamentally broken premise. Parscale and his associates can spend millions attempting to astroturf young conservative minds, but the very presence of their foreign propaganda is proving to be the most compelling argument against it.
