Israel's Digital Ad Plan for Churches

Israel paid for a plan to put a digital fence around three hundred American

churches. Every phone inside during Sunday service

would

be tracked and hit with ads.

The plan is on file at the United States Department of Justice.

It is on file because anyone paid by a foreign government to influence

Americans must register with the Justice Department.

The company that registered, Show Faith By Works was a

six-week-old California outfit run by a political consultant.

Its client, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

the Israeli

Government's foreign office.

A geo-fence is a line drawn on a map around a building.

Every phone that crosses the line is marked and the ads follow it

home.

The filing's job description,

quote,

"Geo-fence the actual boundaries of every major church in California,

Arizona, Nevada and Colorado and all Christian

colleges during worship times.

Track attendees and continue to target with ads."

Every church is named

two hundred and nineteen in California, thirty-eight in

Arizona, thirty-two in Colorado, fourteen

in Nevada,

Black churches, Spanish speaking churches.

The filing counts nearly four million Christians in

reach and expects to win over more than a hundred thousand

of them.

The goal,

quote, "Increase positive associations with the

nation of Israel

while linking the Palestinian population with extremist factions."

Make Christians like Israel. Make them see Palestinians as

terrorists.

The filing was made in September twenty twenty five

with Israel's first payment already in the bank.

The churches on the list had never been asked.

One church in Colorado answered,

quote,

"We did not know about this.

We did not consent to this,

and we are not participating in this."

By late November, the consultant who wrote the plan said he

had dropped the fence.

Israel's payments kept coming.

By March, more than two point five million dollars.

The list is real,

three hundred and three churches chosen by a foreign government

without asking any of them.

Nobody asked the Christians.

Nobody asked the Palestinians.