Israeli government officials, along with their state aligned partners, are commissioning the Sunday School literature, shaping the small-group curricula, and guiding the theological education of American evangelicals. Pastors are bribed, congregations are mapped, young believers are digitally targeted, and study materials are packaged as discipleship while promoting the interests of a foreign state. The American church has become a delivery system for narratives conceived in government offices overseas. What began as emotional support for Israel has evolved into a pipeline of influence that reaches straight into the pulpit and the classroom. The deepest scandal is simple. Evangelicals thought they were blessing Jews. Unbelieving Jews, instead, have been discipling them.
The Israeli government has spent years building this disciplined influence system that reaches from cabinet offices in Jerusalem to the Sunday school classrooms of the American church. From curated pastor tours to geofencing campaigns, it’s all because a foreign state has learned how to speak fluent evangelical. Sadly, key Christian leaders have become accomplices.
Ask a typical American evangelical why they support Israel and you will hear the same script every time. It is about the Bible. It is about blessing Abraham. It is about standing with the people of God. They imagine their loyalty rose naturally from their reading of Scripture and from a vague sense of shared morality. They picture it as a grassroots conviction, not as the end product of a coordinated program. In their minds there is no architect. There are only sincere believers, grateful Israelis, and a relationship that just happened.
What I’m about to reveal to you at Insight to Incite is that behind the sentimental language lies a set of institutions that treat evangelical support as a strategic asset. The Israeli state does not look at tens of millions of politically engaged Christians and see only prayer partners. It sees a voting bloc that can make or break policies in Washington. It sees donors, influencers, university boards, and megachurch networks that can normalize whatever Israel needs normalized in American life. They’ve built an influence infrastructure in America that’s astounding, once you see it.
It’s no surprise a foreign government wants to influence us. What’s so astounding is the way that planning reaches directly into American churches. The engine sits inside the government, not on the fringe. The messaging is not primarily run by romantic Christian tourists with a love for the Holy Land. It is guided by cabinet level offices, national ministries, and government aligned entities that track evangelical sentiment and adjust tactics when support starts to slip.
For years the church has been told to think about Israel in prophetic terms. What it has not been told is that Israel thinks about the church in strategic terms. That asymmetry is exactly what this series is meant to expose. To do that honestly, you cannot start with famous pastors or emotional trips to Jerusalem. You have to start at the top. I’ll put the words, names, and titles in bold that you need to remember.
UPDATE: If the informant she talks about in the first part is telling the truth, this has become a huge story.
If the dude is telling the truth, both he and Candace are in real danger.
If he is lying and participating in a psyop, she is still in danger but maybe a little less.
In psyops, a common technique is to push out a plausible but false story that draws the public into a minefield which eventually blows up, discrediting the true conspiracy and those who are researching it.
I am saying this simply to alert readers to this possibility.
This series is still very much worth watching and I plan to continue doing that. ABN
The clip features Michael Evans, CEO of Friends of Zion, announcing a partnership with Blackboard to train 100,000 evangelical Christians as pro-Israel ambassadors in their home countries, aimed at defending Israel’s image and fighting antisemitism, which the author labels “disgusting” to critique Christian Zionism.
This initiative builds on evangelical theology viewing Israel as central to biblical prophecy, with FOZ leveraging edtech for scalable online courses; similar programs have trained thousands since 2018, per FOZ reports.
By averaging individual EEG responses to 500 images, researchers were later able to identify individual people with 100% accuracy. The main expected use for this research is biometric identification of people wanting to enter secure spaces.
That this research also has implications for social-psychology is what I am interested in today.
If each of us is unique with unique responses to pretty much everything, how are we able to communicate?
We communicate with each other in cultural terms. That is, we use unifying cultural concepts to provide a sense of agreement. Some might say to manufacture an illusion of agreement.
Culture is a hierarchical group of unifying principles that organizes the minds of its members.
Similarly, what we call the “self” or the “ego” is nothing more than a unifying principle that organizes the mind of the individual.
It should not take too much effort to see that what people think of as their “self” is usually an imported hierarchy that comes from the individual’s understanding of the culture to which they belong.
Individuals tailor their imported “selves” in much the same ways that we decorate our rooms or choose our clothes. There is a good deal of leeway in how you construct yourself, but there are also serious limitations.
This why individuals in one culture differ from individuals in another. If they have commonalities, those are often shared cultural roots or instinctive human behaviors that find expression in all societies.
I believe the above view of culture and the individual’s role in it describes a dangerous trap.
This is so because the resonance between “self” and “culture” is a powerful tautology, based on illusions.
No matter how you change culture, the trap remains the same.
Change in culture means little more than a rearrangement of limited parts that will never come together as an enlightened whole because cultures are always lowest common denominators.
Make culture more “tolerant” and it will gradually be undermined and replaced by those who come into the tent under the new rules.
We see exactly this happening with SJWs whose demands for tolerance have morphed into totalitarian demands for tolerance as they define it.
Do as we say or be fired, ostracized, demonstrated against, beaten-up.
I do not see any way to get out of this problem except the Buddhist way. Renounce culture in most of its guises and as an individual withdraw from its worst bs as much as possible.
Culture, as much as the ego or self, is a fundamental delusion. It is the stuff of the first noble truth and it causes suffering.
As a Buddhist, I understand that culture is necessary for our educations up to a point. And I understand that the self is necessary for healthy individual development up to a point.
But once that point has been reached, I renounce the totalitarianism of culture, the totalitarianism of the self, the totalitarianism of any lowest common denominator anything.
Notice I said totalitarianism of.
I can accept and function in a culture that allows great freedom of thought with few rules. I always gladly obey all the rules in national parks and adore the Bill of Rights, though sadly it is slipping away.
Similarly, I am good with a healthy persona restrained by the five precepts and used as a basis for social intercourse and freedom of thought.
Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang
Yao Zhang says she doesn’t have any friends, yet every week, thousands of her 175,000 YouTube subscribers tune in to her channel to listen to her live takes on Chinese current affairs.
“China isn’t a democratic country. Everyone suffers in that regime,” Zhang told Radio-Canada during an interview held somewhere between Montreal and Quebec City.
Concerned for her safety, the 39-year-old guards any information that could give away her location.
And for good reason: the Quebec YouTuber, who refuses to be silenced, has been the target of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government for over a year.
“I have to be very, very careful,” she said. “I stopped all communications with the Chinese community because I don’t know who I can trust.”
The video highlights a real December 2025 event where over 1,000 U.S. evangelical pastors and influencers visited Israel for a weeklong solidarity mission, the largest since 1948, aimed at combating antisemitism through pro-Israel advocacy in churches and media.
Attached video footage shows participants praying at the Western Wall and Temple steps, meeting rabbis, and emphasizing evangelical support for Israel as “God’s place for God’s people,” aligning with speakers like Mike Huckabee’s message that “pro-Bible is pro-Israel.”
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UPDATE: This going to greatly damage Christianity if not kill it off altogether. These pastors should be required to register with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Older and less well-informed Christians may fall for this schtick but I doubt younger Americans will. ABN
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