A four million dollar mobile propaganda operation funded by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently touring American churches. Show Faith by Works LLC, a registered foreign agent run by Republican consultant Chad Schnitger, deployed a 41-foot “museum” trailer to churches across California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado this month, without their permission or knowledge.
The operation is one tentacle of a ten million dollar coordinated influence campaign designed to reverse collapsing support for Israel among young American Christians. It is being laundered from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through a German subsidiary, and then to American Christians without the slightest disclosure that it’s foreign propaganda.
There’s a 41-foot trailer in a church parking lot in Phoenix this Sunday. Inside, there’s strobe lights, empty tents, VR headsets, and a 55-inch touchscreen showing videos produced in Israel. Young Christians will file in after the service, experience an “immersive October 7 exhibit,” and leave with educational materials about why supporting Israel is what Christians have “always believed.”
What they won’t see anywhere are the words “Paid for by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” What they won’t know is that they’re targets of a registered foreign agent conducting a $4 million influence operation on American soil.
This isn’t conspiracy theory. It’s disclosed in federal documents filed with the Department of Justice in September 2025. The operator is a Republican political consultant named Chad Schnitger. His boss is the Israeli government. His mission is to reverse declining support for Israel among Christians under 30 who “don’t remember 9/11.”
This isn’t lobbying. This is a foreign government manipulating American theology, tracking believers in their houses of worship, and operating through a network of registered agents spending ten million dollars to reshape how evangelicals think about Israel. And the mobile museum launched this week.
Here’s what I found when I pulled the Foreign Agents Registration Act documents
WHAT THE FEDERAL DOCUMENTS REVEAL
Show Faith by Works LLC registered as a foreign agent on September 27, 2025. The Foreign principal is Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The budget is $3,258,961 for operations in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado, with an additional $835,000 expansion budget for Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. The registrant is Chad Schnitger, a Republican consultant now drawing a $150,000 salary directly from the Israeli government.
But it’s the original plan, disclosed in that September filing, that reveals the actual scope of what Israeli officials intended.
The FARA documents describe what Schnitger called “the largest Christian church geofencing campaign in U.S. history,” which I already reported here.
Geofencing is surveillance technology that creates a digital perimeter around a physical location. When someone’s phone enters that zone, their device ID is captured. The documents explicitly stated the plan: “Geofence the actual boundaries of every Major church in California, Arizona, Nevada and Coloardo [sic] and all Christian Colleges during worship times... Track attendees and continue to target with ads.”
Over 200 churches were listed by name in the filing. None of them had been asked for permission. None of them knew they’d been selected as targets for a foreign government surveillance operation.
Bethel Church in Redding, California responded when contacted by journalists: “We have no connection to SFBW and are not working with the organization in any way. [We were] added to a list of targeted geofenced areas not by our choosing or request.” Pathway Church in Redding said simply: “If they are using our name, it is without authority.” Faith & Freedom Coalition president Ralph Reed publicly disavowed Schnitger entirely, stating his organization “had no role in and no knowledge of Schnitger’s activities.”
A coalition of churches sent a letter to the Department of Justice requesting prohibition of geofencing by foreign agents, arguing that “allowing foreign government access to geolocation data [of worshipers is] akin to requiring churches to turn over membership lists.”
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When the plan became public in October 2025, Schnitger pivoted. He claimed he’d “messed up the FARA document,” calling the 86-page filing just “brainstorming.” He announced he was “scrapping” the geofencing plan due to “security concerns” and would shift to “grassroots educational efforts.” He promised to file updated FARA documents “in the next few weeks” outlining a “finalized proposal for digital ads.” Those updated documents have not yet appeared.
But the mobile museum budgeted at $1 million and described in the original FARA filing, launched this week anyway. It’s a 41-foot toy hauler featuring what Schnitger calls “the 10/7 Experience” It includes DF footage, immersive scene materials designed to “mimic October 7,” and educational content about Israel. The museum is touring churches and Christian colleges across the western United States right now. Attendees can sign up for raffles offering fully paid trips to Israel. Schnitger told reporters he’s “hoping to send a whole church if I get the budget.”
But Show Faith by Works is just one tentacle of a much larger operation.
FOLLOW THE SHEKELS: ISRAELI GOVERNMENT → GERMAN AD AGENCY → YOUR CHURCH PARKING LOT
Every dollar flowing to Schnitger’s operation passes through the same intermediary, which is Havas Media Germany GmbH, the German subsidiary of a French multinational advertising conglomerate. Havas acts as a financial laundromat, creating a layer of separation between the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and U.S. contractors. Since 2018, Havas has moved over $100 million from the Israeli government to various American operations.
Why route payments through Germany? It’s because direct transfers from the Israeli government to American political consultants look like what they are, which is foreign interference. Payments from a European advertising agency to U.S. contractors look like business as usual. The structure provides plausible deniability and makes the money harder to trace.
Show Faith by Works received its first payment of $325,881 on September 18, 2025, the same day Brad Parscale’s firm registered as a foreign agent for Israel (more on that shortly). The full contract breaks down as five installments of $651,792 each, totaling $3,258,961, with a conditional expansion budget of $835,000 if operations extend into Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Where does that money go? According to the FARA filing, it goes to the following:
$550,000 to Graystone HR and Graystone Public Affairs for payroll and California AB5 compliance. This pays salaries for Schnitger ($150,000), regional leader Melissa Lundie, California church lead Richard Tuong Do, traveling team leader Robert Pursley, and part-time project manager Emily Hemingway.
$325,000 for mobile museum fabrication ($175,000 for the custom trailer, $150,000 for “scene materials to mimic 10/7”).
Undisclosed amounts to Raincross Marketing for digital campaigns, Dhillon Law Firm for FARA compliance, and Matt Davis for theological consulting.
Matt Davis deserves special attention. He’s a Messianic Jew and co-founder of a nonprofit called “The Jewish Road.” He was filmed in Israel wearing a baseball cap reading “The Few” while producing content for Show Faith by Works. Davis publicly stated his belief that “Biblical promises of physical land to the nation of Israel still apply today, even though Palestinians now occupy part of it.” This is the man the Israeli government is paying to tell American Christians what the Bible means.
The operation is managed from the Israeli side by Eran Shayovich, Chief of Staff at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shayovich runs what Israel calls “Project 545,” the country’s strategic communication campaign. He personally recruited Schnitger for this work. He is the same official managing all the other U.S. influence contracts disclosed in September 2025, including Brad Parscale’s $6 million deal. Schnitger told reporters that Shayovich gave him “shocking freedom” to run the operation, “even after I messed up the FARA document.”
The FARA documents make the objectives explicit:
Combat low American Evangelical Christian approval of the Nation of Israel.
Deliver anti-Palestinian state messaging.
Link the Palestinian population with extremist factions.
Counter “replacement theology” among evangelicals.
Target Christians under 30 who “don’t remember 9/11.
Schnitger himself explained the strategy in an interview: “Even in politics, you shore up your base, right? You go back to your base every once in a while and say, ‘Hey Christians, this is what you’ve always believed.’”
Except American Christians didn’t arrive at these beliefs organically. They’re being told what they’ve “always believed” by a foreign government spending millions of dollars to manufacture that consensus.
And Show Faith by Works isn’t operating alone. It’s part of a coordinated network spending over $10 million to manipulate American opinion on Israel.
THE $10 MILLION INFLUENCE MACHINE: PARSCALE, BOTS, AND AI MANIPULATION
Show Faith by Works represents one of at least four simultaneous Israeli influence operations, all flowing through Havas Media Germany, all managed by the same Israeli official, and all registered as foreign agents in September 2025. The total known spending exceeds $10 million. The approved budget, according to reporting from late 2024, is $150 million.
The most explosive component involves Brad Parscale and Salem Media Group.
Brad Parscale ran Donald Trump’s digital media operation in 2016 and served as campaign manager in 2020. He’s credited with pioneering the Facebook microtargeting strategies that helped Trump win. In January 2025, Parscale was appointed Chief Strategy Officer of Salem Media Group, the largest conservative Christian media conglomerate in America.
Then, on September 18, 2025 - the same day Show Faith by Works received its first Israeli payment - Parscale’s company Clock Tower X LLC registered as a foreign agent for Israel. The contract: $6 million over four months ($1.5 million per month) to produce pro-Israel content and, critically, to ensure “integration of narrative messaging into Salem Media Network properties and aligned distribution channels.”
Salem Media Group owns over 200 conservative Christian radio stations nationwide. Its properties include shows hosted by Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder, Dennis Prager, Sebastian Gorka, Eric Metaxas, and until his recent death, Charlie Kirk. Salem operates Townhall.com, RedState, Hot Air, PJ Media, Twitchy, and Human Events. It runs Regnery Publishing, a major conservative book imprint. In April 2025, Salem announced that Donald Trump Jr. and Lara Trump had become “significant stakeholders” in the company. Lara Trump now hosts “The Right View with Lara Trump” on Salem’s network.
Brad Parscale now serves two masters. He is Chief Strategy Officer for Salem Media Group, responsible for advancing the company’s business interests, and he is a registered foreign agent for Israel, contractually obligated to integrate Israeli government messaging into Salem’s platforms.
Salem Media Group will not answer whether the company is being compensated for carrying this content. Reporters have asked repeatedly. The company maintains complete silence. Which means one of two scenarios is true:
Either Salem is being paid (making it a paid contractor in an Israeli influence operation,) meaning conservative Christian listeners are consuming foreign government propaganda without disclosure, or Salem is not being paid, in which case Parscale is using his executive position to give away company resources to serve his foreign principal, a potential breach of fiduciary duty to shareholders and possible corporate misuse.
Either way, millions of conservative Christians consuming Salem content are being manipulated by the Israeli government and have no idea.
What is Parscale producing with his $6 million? According to the FARA filing: 100 core pieces of content per month plus 5,000 derivative versions, which is a total of 5,100 pieces monthly. Eighty percent is aimed at Gen Z. Platforms include TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts. The goal is a minimum of 50 million impressions per month.
But the most disturbing component is the AI manipulation operation. The contract explicitly requires “search and language operation” using MarketBrew AI to run “monthly SEO campaigns” and make “efforts to shape outputs of GPT-based chatbots.” The stated goal: “shape conversational outputs on ChatGPT and AI platforms such as Claude” and “steer language pathways related to Israel.”
Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, called this “the first known public attempt by a state to influence AI chat systems and shape their political narratives.” The strategy is to flood the internet with so much AI-generated pro-Israel content that it trains the models themselves. When Americans ask ChatGPT or Claude about Israel, they’ll get Israeli government talking points baked into the algorithm.
The third tentacle is Bridge Partners LLC, an operation run by Uri Steinberg and Yair Levi, both former Israeli Ministry of Tourism officials. Bridge Partners registered as a foreign agent in September 2025 with a $900,000 contract to recruit 14 to 18 social media influencers and pay them $6,000 to $7,000 per post. The goal: 25 to 30 posts per month per influencer across Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, and Threads.
Bridge Partners has deep connections to evangelical Christian Zionist networks. Paid consultants include Matt Brown, an evangelical leader who has advised Bush, Obama, and Trump, and Mark Forrester, Chief Communications Officer for the Assemblies of God, one of America’s largest Pentecostal denominations. The operation also paid Candor Marketing Inc., a South Carolina-based firm owned by an evangelical Christian couple who previously partnered with Christians United for Israel.
After the FARA filing became public, the “$7,000” figure went viral. Pro-Palestinian activists began commenting “$7,000” under suspicious pro-Israel social media posts, turning it into shorthand for “you’re a paid shill.” The operation backfired spectacularly, creating a cloud of suspicion over every pro-Israel influencer—even those posting organically.
The fourth component involves SKDKnickerbocker, a Washington D.C.-based PR firm aligned with Democratic causes. SKDKnickerbocker was contracted directly by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (not through Havas like the others) to run bot farms, which are automated social media accounts designed to amplify pro-Israel messaging. The firm ended its contract abruptly on August 29, 2025, saying the work “had run its course.” Two days later, on August 27, Brad Parscale drafted his Israeli government contract. Israel replaced a Democrat-aligned firm that bailed under public pressure with a Republican operative who had the infrastructure to integrate propaganda into America’s largest conservative Christian media network.
This is the system: AI-generated content from Parscale (5,100 pieces/month), human influencer amplification from Bridge Partners (450+ posts/month at $7,000 each), bot network amplification to game algorithms, physical “grassroots” operations from Show Faith by Works to convert online messaging into real-world church presence, and all of it pumped through Salem Media’s 200+ radio stations reaching millions of evangelical Christians.
The total known spending through Havas Media Germany: over $10 million. The approved Israeli budget for global influence operations: $150 million. What we can see in FARA filings represents roughly only 7 percent of the total operation. Where’s the rest of it.
ESPIONAGE DRESSED AS EVANGELISM
This is not organic Christian conviction. This is a foreign government paying millions of dollars to reshape American theology.
The Israeli government is funding theological interpreters to tell American Christians what the Bible means. Matt Davis, paid by Israel, teaches that “Biblical promises of physical land to Israel still apply today.” Mike Huckabee, now U.S. Ambassador to Israel, has called replacement theology “warped” and “close to blasphemy.” Chad Schnitger frames supporting Israel as what Christians have “always believed,” while being paid $150,000 by the Israeli government to say so.
The theological wedge being driven into American evangelicalism is simple. Either you believe modern Israel has a divine right to the land (Christian Zionism), or you’re “ignorant” and possibly heretical (replacement theology). The debate is framed as binary, and one side is being funded by a foreign government spending $10+ million to make sure their position wins.
This represents a sovereignty violation on multiple levels. A foreign government is conducting surveillance operations on American soil, targeting U.S. citizens based on their religious practice. The original geofencing plan involved tracking phones inside churches during worship, a Fourth Amendment nightmare. The 2018 Supreme Court ruled that warrantless acquisition of cell-site location data violates the Fourth Amendment. Geofencing arguably falls into the same category.
But there are First Amendment implications as well. Targeting Americans based on religious attendance creates a chilling effect on free exercise and assembly. As the churches wrote in their letter to DOJ, “Allowing foreign government access to geolocation data of worshipers is akin to requiring churches to turn over membership lists.” Would we tolerate China geofencing churches to track Christians? Would we allow Russia to do this? Iran? The precedent is catastrophic.
The deception operates at scale. When Americans encounter pro-Israel content, they believe it’s coming from fellow Christians. They don’t know it’s from the Israeli government. The mobile museum doesn’t announce “Funded by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.” Salem Media shows don’t disclose that their Chief Strategy Officer is a registered foreign agent contractually required to integrate Israeli messaging. Influencers may or may not reveal their $7,000 payments. The entire apparatus is designed to look organic while being completely manufactured.
Why is Israel spending ten million dollars on this operation? Because the data shows they’re losing an entire generation of American Christians.
Pew Research shows American adults with an unfavorable view of Israel jumped from 42 percent in March 2022 to 53 percent in April 2025. Among Republicans under 50, half now hold negative views of Israel, which is a 15-point increase since the Gaza war began. Tel Aviv University research found that young evangelicals are “no longer automatically supportive, unlike their parents.” A Gallup poll from July 2025 found that only 9 percent of Americans aged 18 to 34 support Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Nine percent. An Israeli Foreign Ministry poll found that 47 percent of Americans believe Israel is committing genocide.
Israel is watching its American support collapse in real time, especially among the next generation of evangelicals who don’t remember 9/11 and are forming their views based on images from Gaza rather than inherited Cold War loyalties. The $150 million influence operation is a desperate attempt to recapture that generation before they’re permanently lost.
The operation is technically legal because the agents filed FARA paperwork. But legality and morality are not the same thing. Should foreign governments be allowed to manipulate American religious beliefs? Should foreign agents be permitted to track worshipers inside churches? Should foreign influence operations be allowed to masquerade as Christian ministries?
The FARA disclosures are filed with the Department of Justice, not announced to the people being targeted. Churches don’t consent. Congregants don’t know. Listeners don’t realize the content they’re consuming may be foreign propaganda. The system is designed for exactly this outcome: compliance with the letter of the law while violating its spirit entirely.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
The mobile museum is touring now. Churches in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado are being targeted this month. Expansion into Texas, Utah, and Wyoming is planned. Your church might be next.
If a 41-foot trailer shows up in your church parking lot offering an “educational experience” about Israel, ask who’s funding it. Demand disclosure. Check the FARA database to see if your church was listed as a target. Inform your congregation that they may be subjects of a foreign influence operation. Consider whether your church should permit registered foreign agents to operate on church property at all.
Individuals can take action too. Question pro-Israel content from “Christian” sources. Ask whether Salem Media personalities are disclosing Brad Parscale’s status as a foreign agent. Recognize that theological positions you’ve absorbed about Israel may not be your own convictions but foreign government messaging. Turn off location services when attending church to limit geofencing capability. Support transparency by demanding that influencers disclose payments. Think critically about who benefits from your theological positions.
The theological question is unavoidable: Are your convictions about Israel actually yours, or were they implanted by foreign agents? Would you still hold these beliefs if you knew they were purchased by a foreign government? What does it mean for Reformed theology if political positions are for sale? Is Christian Zionism organic conviction or manufactured consensus?
American Christians should not be subjects of foreign influence operations. Our churches are not marketplaces for foreign governments. Our theology is not for sale. Our national sovereignty requires constant vigilance, especially when the threat comes disguised as ministry.
The next time you see pro-Israel content from a “fellow Christian,” ask yourself: Is this genuine conviction, or am I looking at a $7,000 social media post? Is this organic theology, or $4 million worth of Israeli government propaganda? Is that “educational” mobile museum in the church parking lot a ministry tool, or a foreign intelligence operation?
The answer is in the FARA documents. And the mobile museum launched this week.
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