🤯1,000 White Pastors Travel to Israel for Propaganda Training from Indicted War Criminals. And Are Asked to Recruit 10,000 More
Israel is training American pastors to defend a man charged with genocide. Jesus warned us exactly about this.
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A Warning From Jesus That Echoes Through This Moment
Jesus said:
“It would be better for you to tie a millstone around your neck and throw yourself into the sea than to harm one of these little ones.”
(Luke 17:2)
Little ones.
Children.
The vulnerable.
The oppressed.
And yet this week, over 1,000 American pastors — overwhelmingly white, conservative evangelicals — flew to Israel, not to protect life, not to advocate for peace, not to comfort the wounded, and not to walk beside the suffering…
…but to be trained by the Israeli government in hasbara, a foreign propaganda operation, during an active genocide.
And they didn’t fly themselves there.
They were brought — paid for and flown in by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
They came to the land of Jesus
and aligned themselves not with the oppressed
but with the oppressor.
A Foreign Influence Operation Targeting the American Church
Israel’s MFA openly bragged that they brought “over 1,000 pastors” to Jerusalem to train them in how to spread pro-Israel messaging throughout their churches.
They are being asked — in Netanyahu’s own recorded words — to recruit 10,000 more.
This is not a fellowship.
Not a pilgrimage.
Not a spiritual retreat.
This is a foreign influence campaign targeting the American church.
And Mike Huckabee, now serving as U.S. Ambassador under Trump, said exactly what this operation is designed to do:
“It’s an extraordinary time for pastors to go to their pulpits… and push back on the bigotry being pushed toward Israel.”
Translation:
Use your pulpits to defend a government charged with genocide.
Use your pulpits to silence criticism.
Use your pulpits to protect Netanyahu.
And he didn’t stop there:
“There is a growing cancer in the evangelical movement where people are starting to think Israel doesn’t matter.”
A cancer?
Or a moral awakening?
What They Refused to See in the Land of Jesus
Palestinian pastor Jack Sara wrote a message to these American pastors — one that every Christian should read with trembling.
He told them:
“You walked where Jesus walked — but refused to walk beside His followers who are struggling to survive here.”
They prayed at stones,
but ignored the living stones —
the Palestinian Christians who still bear Christ’s name in the land of His birth.
They blessed a political state
but refused to meet the people being displaced, bombed, starved, or silenced.
And in the presence of a genocide court case,
they chose the side of power
over the side of Christ.
Rev. Munther Isaac amplified Pastor Sara’s words, adding:
“Tens of thousands of Palestinian children have been killed or traumatized, and you stayed silent.”
Pastors came to the birthplace of Christianity
and would not meet a single Palestinian Christian.
How do you claim to represent Jesus
while ignoring His people?
The Man Training Them Is Charged With Starving Children
Let’s state this clearly:
Benjamin Netanyahu is currently under indictment by the International Criminal Court for:
mass starvation of civilians
extermination
persecution
intentional targeting of children
He is, by every legal definition, an accused war criminal.
And yet American pastors sat in rows, nodding like obedient students, as he told them:
“I’m counting on you. I know you’ll do what has to be done.”
Do what?
Defend genocide?
Silence dissent?
Spread propaganda through churches?
Turn Christianity into a political weapon?
If Jesus overturned tables in the Temple for far less corruption than this,
what would He do today?
The Single Moment of Clarity We Must Name
Let’s say plainly what this is:
A foreign government flew in 1,000 American pastors for propaganda training.
The training was led by a man charged with genocide.
The pastors were asked to spread political messaging in their churches.
They were told to recruit 10,000 more pastors.
And they did all of this while ignoring the suffering Christians who live in the land of Jesus.
This is not spiritual leadership.
This is complicity.
The Gospel They Preached Was Not the Gospel of Jesus
These pastors stood on the Mount of Beatitudes
while remaining silent about the people who mourn.
They celebrated the Good Samaritan
while walking past today’s wounded on the side of the road.
They preached about “blessing Israel”
while ignoring the biblical command to:
“Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God.”
(Micah 6:8)
They proclaimed a ministry of reconciliation
while embracing a political narrative built on division.
They rejoiced in ancient stones
but ignored the living stones —
the Palestinian Christians being erased from the land.
They claimed to love their neighbor
but refused to love their Palestinian neighbor.
And they talked about religious freedom in America
while ignoring the shrinking freedoms of Palestinian Christians.
What gospel is this?
Whose kingdom are they supporting?
Because it is not the Kingdom Jesus preached.
The Truth American Christians Deserve to Hear
Evangelical support for Israel has never truly been about theology.
It has always been about power, politics, money, and control.
The Israeli government understands this so clearly that it is now openly recruiting American pastors as political operatives.
Why?
Because the American church is one of the last institutions with unquestioned moral authority in conservative politics —
and Netanyahu wants to weaponize it.
This isn’t discipleship.
It’s indoctrination.
This isn’t solidarity with Israel.
It’s collaboration with oppression.
And it is happening in broad daylight.
Where We Stand as Followers of Justice
Family, in Islam we say:
“Stand firmly for justice, even if it is against yourselves.”
In Christianity, the message is the same:
“If one member suffers, all suffer together.”
(1 Corinthians 12:26)
And Jesus modeled a religion where the oppressed come first.
I refuse to let the murder of Gazan babies
and the starvation of entire families
be blessed from the pulpits of America.
And you should refuse it, too.
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As a Christian, I am enraged. All Christians should be enraged. All lovers of justice should be enraged. Those 1,000 pastors should be utterly ashamed.
This is absolutely outrageous, of course. You can't love God and hate your brother or sister.