Israel’s $50 Million Experiment to Change U.S. Public Opinion
Freerepublic.com·July 19, 2026
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Israel's government has launched a $50 million campaign leveraging influencers, Trump administration insiders, and AI-generated text messages to improve its public image in the United States. The effort includes automated messaging from accounts like "Friends for Peace" using common names to reach American voters about Israel-related issues.
The Israeli government is trying to shore up its U.S. reputation with help from influencers, Trump insiders and millions of AI-driven texts
The text messages come from senders named Emma or Sarah, with a group called Friends for Peace. “How do you think the U.S. and Israel’s peace talks with Iran will impact global security?” they ask.
Millions of similar texts have flooded American cellphones in recent months. They are written with artificial intelligence, pushed by a longtime Trump adviser’s firm—and paid for by the Israeli government.
Some 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel, according to a March poll by Pew Research, driven by its handling of its wars in Gaza and Iran.
Israel is pouring tens of millions of dollars into a somewhat quixotic effort to beat back that tide, drawing on novel strategies powered by AI and directly paying conservative media.
Vice President JD Vance this past week accused Israel’s influence campaign of trying to undermine U.S. negotiations to end the Iran conflict. Some Israeli officials are “manipulating and trying to change American public opinion to keep the war going on indefinitely,” he told podcaster Joe Rogan.
The artificial-intelligence texts are one piece of a more than $45 million contract that the Israeli government recently signed with Brad Parscale, a longtime ally of President Trump.
Israel set a 2026 budget of more than $700 million to expand the country’s efforts to “shape consciousness” and improve its image around the world, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said late last year. The Israeli Foreign Ministry didn’t respond to interview requests. Its allies argue that its influence campaign is necessary to counter those run by Iran and the pro-Palestinian movement.
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Israel has allocated some $730 million (that we know of-— probably much, much more) in its 2026 national budget.
Billions are being spent for “public diplomacy and image-building”, b/c large amounts of money buy anything....... even a good image.
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This $730 million funding is a dramatic increase from the $150 million spent in 2025 b/c it is intended to counter worsening global anti-Israel views.
Specifics of the campaign include extensive US operations since Israel and its military are totally dependent on US tax dollars.
$50 million is dedicated to “reshaping American opinion” through <><>AI-driven text campaigns, <><>conservative media advertising, <><>and shaping search engine and chatbots.
The $730 million budget funds <><>social media initiatives, <><>trips to Israel to exploit influencers and politicians, <><>and inventing favorable digital content.
Israel is utilizing private US firms: <><>$45 million to Trump’s ex-campaign manager <><>Brad Parscale’s company is Clock Tower X LLC. <><>another $45 million to Christian-centered organizations. <><>US tax dollars to manipulate other venues are not delineated.
You can read more about the scope of these efforts in the Wall Street Journal. Or follow community discussions in the Israeli-based Jerusalem Post.
FYI—Although vocally visible, Jews are considered too few in number for broader population polling.
B/c they make up an infinitesimally small percentage of the US population, standard ntl polls use extraordinary methods to ensure adequate representation.
This makes it appear Jews are numerous (when public policy..... like Congressional funding issues.... loom).
The total U.S. Jewish population is insignificant ....... an infinitesimal fraction of the overall US population.
Jews are too small a number to study with the usual methodology.
Major research organizations, such as the “American Jewish Population Project” at Brandeis University, conduct “targeted surveys” specifically to analyze Jewish Americans’ views and demographics.
Methodology To get statistically significant results for a smaller demographic like Jews, has pollsters use techniques like:
Oversampling: Including using a larger number of Jewish individuals in a survey sample than would occur by pure random chance, and then weighting the results back to their correct proportion in the overall population for national estimates.
Targeted Sampling: Using commercial lists or focusing on geographic areas (such as specific counties in New York, Florida, or Pennsylvania) where large Jewish populations reside to reach potential respondents.
Yet Jews’ high voter registration and turnout rates and voting patterns, all of them supporting Democrats, make their vote an area of analysis, especially for campaign funding and political strategies.
While they are a tiny minority group, the Jewish population is routinely polled using extraordinary statistical methods to get their opinions and voting behavior.
Approximately 1.8 million Jewish adults, just under one-third of the total Jewish electorate, live in twenty-five congressional districts.
National Profile of the Jewish Electorate, May 2020
Of the top twenty-five districts by Jewish population, nearly half are in New York — NY10, NY-3, NY-12, NY-17, NY4, NY-9, NY-6, NY-8, and NY11.
The remaining districts with Jewish populations are found in seven states including Florida, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. FL-21 has the greatest number of Jewish adults at 152,000.
With the exception of NJ-4, these districts are represented by Democrats and all but two (NJ-4 and NJ-5) are Democratic-leaning districts.
American Jewish voters and campaign donors historically align with and donate heavily to the Democratic Party, with roughly 70% of Jews identifying as or leaning Democratic because of unwavering Democrat support for Jewish liberal values, such as abortions with the government picking up the tab, the gay agenda, social welfare, pluralism, and church-state separation.
US Jews allegiance to the Democratic Party is driven by a commitment to liberalism, and that Democrats represents the Jewish community’s values.
Pro-Israel Tax Dollar Funding: pro-Israel lobbying groups (like AIPAC’s United Democracy Project) direct significant funding toward Democratic primaries to influence foreign policy positions......paericularly rax dollar billions to subsidize Israel’s military, economy and generous social welfare system
The majority of individual Jewish donations go to Democrats. (Pew Research Center)
I imagine they’re up against billions in muslim brotherhood money.
OH Krap! More commie/nazi/leftist projecting against the Jews. They’ve got a REAL mental problem, hangup.... this is for sure.
And when Jerusalem doesn’t attempt yo correct all the lies being spread against it (billions of dirty dollars from enemy nations Qatar Saudi and enemies within like Soroznazi’s many false front groups etc.), when Israel mostly ignored all the calumnies— it was highly criticized for not trying to correct the record. For letting the lying Neo- and not-so-new Nazis and IslamoNazis and communists “get away with it.”
As Jos. Goebbels said and practiced: “The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”
So which is it to be —- let the enemies control and warp the discourse — rendering it basically a complete falsehood —- or at least try to get some truth back into the public square (and, alas, be blamed for that, too).
It is Catch 22. The enemies of America continue to seriously slant, distort, largely control our mass media (and misuse our universities like stages for their farcical and very well-planned and organized-in-advance “spontaneous demonstrations”) —- cleverly using our “free speech” principles against us like we’re all mental retards who are so easily brainwashed. As Goebbels said: “We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons (resources). If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the (Nazi) revolution is fine by us.”
— As Goebbels also said, “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
ps: Goebbels also undestood well the (perverted) philosophy, purpose of the Third Reich, “Athens and Rome are his (Hitler’s) Meccas. The Führer is a man totally attuned to antiquity. He hates Christianity, because it has crippled all that is noble in humanity ... What a difference between the benevolent, smiling Zeus and the pain-wracked, crucified Christ ... What a difference between a gloomy (Christian) cathedral and a light airy ancient (pagan) temple.”
“Israel set a 2026 budget of more than $700 million to expand the country’s efforts to “shape consciousness” and improve its image around the world” ********************************
Well that’s $700 million down the drain. No amount of money is going to change people’s opinions about Israel at this point. If anything the hatred towards Israel is likely to get worse.
Re: "B/c they make up an infinitesimally small percentage of the US population, standard ntl polls use extraordinary methods to ensure adequate representation."
The 2020 U.S. Census says 2.4% of the USA population is Jewish.
4.5% of the USA population has at least one Jewish grand parent - which gets you automatic citizenship in Israel.
What is unknown is how many Jewish Americans conceal their religious heritage because they fear Jew Hatred - from people like Liz.
Which includes the billions spent by Muslims countries to influence the Universities in the USA.
And don't forget the propaganda effects of Qatar based Al Jazeera. That's massive influence by itself.
US demographers research shows the Jewish population represents a small minority in the US.
Demographers estimate that roughly 4.5 million Americans identify as Jewish, making up fewer than 1% of the total 345 million American population.
This includes Jews who identify with Judaism by religion and those who consider themselves culturally or ethnically Jewish who have no religion.
Their national percentage is too small for polling, and is heavily concentrated in major metropolitan areas.
Nearly 80% of the less than 1% of total Jews live in US metro areas.
Over half of all American Jews reside in just four states: New York, California, Florida, and New Jersey.
They have tried to get along with them, but the Shia sect will never get along with anyone, evben their Arab Islamic brothers. They are a scourge upon anyone & everyone that they come in contact with.
I too am sicj & tired of the Jew bashing. They too have a right to use whatever they have to seek assistance from others. That something they have is money.
DOnald Trump is not susceptible to to cajoled into being the puppet for anotyther nation. Instead, he just knows that the Jews have a lot more positive to offer theworld.
Islam created higher math skills, before they got involved in Islan, but have offered nothing since Islam was established.
Jesus was a Jew, would they also say the same about Jesus as they label Jews with, now?
“ Some 60% of American adults now have an unfavorable view of Israel”
60% apparently believe the Gaza genocide lie spewed by the Enemedia.
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