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When Your Antisemitism Fighter Is Bankrolled by One

Brad Parscale builds the AI tools that target voters based on their "prejudices and fears." He takes the money from both the antisemite and the state that wants to fight antisemitism. He deploys the same manipulation infrastructure for contradictory purposes.

Shadow Seeker

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When Your Antisemitism Fighter Is Bankrolled by One

Here's a riddle for the morally flexible: How do you take $6 million from the State of Israel to "combat antisemitism" while simultaneously taking $7.5 million from a man who told a Jewish elected official that only Christians should hold leadership positions?

If you're Brad Parscale, you don't even try to answer. You just cash both checks.

In September 2025, Donald Trump's former campaign manager registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to work for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His company, Clock Tower X LLC, secured a four-month contract to fight antisemitism, particularly among young MAGA voters, where Charlie Kirk had warned that antisemitic sentiment was reaching "record levels."[1],[2]

The contract requires Parscale to produce at least 100 creative assets monthly, generate 5,000 derivative versions, achieve 50 million monthly digital impressions, and, here's the part that should alarm anyone who thinks about information ecosystems, "create websites and content to provide GPT framing outcomes" and influence "conversational outputs on ChatGPT and AI platforms such as Claude."[3],[4]

This represents what observers have called "the first known public attempt by a state to influence AI chat systems and shape their political narratives."[5]

The man building this AI manipulation infrastructure? He's business partners with Tim Dunn, the Texas oil billionaire who believes Jews shouldn't lead.

The Money Trail: $7.5 Million From an Tim Dunn

Brad Parscale and Tim Dunn aren't casual acquaintances. They're not donors and consultants who shake hands at fundraisers. They are deeply, financially, personally intertwined.

The Investment: In April 2023, Dunn's Hexagon Partners invested $5 million in AiAdvertising, where Parscale serves as strategic advisor earning $10,000 monthly plus $120,000 annually in stock. In January 2024, Dunn provided another $2.5 million. Total investment from Dunn into a company where Parscale holds a key advisory role: at least $7.5 million.[6],[7],[8]

Board Control: As part of his investment, Dunn designated two AiAdvertising board directors. Not just any directors, former GOP congressman James Renacci and Thomas O. Hicks Jr., the former RNC co-chair and hunting buddy of Donald Trump Jr. This gave Dunn significant governance control over a company central to Parscale's business operations.[7:1],[6:1]

Physical Proximity: In 2023, Parscale bought property in Midland, Texas, Dunn's hometown. According to ProPublica, Parscale's house is located "around the corner from Dunn's compound." Multiple sources confirm Parscale relocated to Midland explicitly to deepen his partnership with Dunn.[9],[10],[11]

This isn't a consulting relationship. This is a marriage.

Shared Vision: Texas Monthly reported that AiAdvertising, backed by Dunn and advised by Parscale, plans to use AI to create "hyper-personalized campaigns" so that messages voters see "will increase in frequency and be even more specifically tailored to their interests, prejudices, and fears."[8:1],[6:2]

Their interests. Their prejudices. Their fears.

This is the same psychological manipulation playbook Parscale used to help elect Donald Trump in 2016, the one that involved Cambridge Analytica harvesting Facebook data without consent. Now it's funded and directed by a man who believes Jews shouldn't hold leadership positions.

"Only Christians Should Lead"

On a day in November 2010, Tim Dunn sat down with Joe Straus. Straus was the Speaker of the Texas House. He is Jewish.

The meeting occurred shortly after Dunn's political network had targeted Democrats and moderate Republicans who supported Straus's speakership. When Straus rebuffed Dunn's demand to replace committee chairs with tea party-aligned lawmakers, their conversation turned to social policy.

That's when Dunn told him: "Only Christians should hold leadership positions" in the Texas legislature.[12]

Straus didn't go public with this until April 2024. But when he did, he didn't equivocate. He didn't suggest Dunn had been misunderstood. He stated plainly what Dunn had said.

Tim Dunn has never denied making the statement.[13]

Think about what this means. Not "I prefer Christian candidates." Not "I think Christian values should guide policy." The statement was categorical: Only Christians should lead. Jews, like the man sitting across the table from him, should not.

This is not ambiguous. This is not subject to interpretation. This is explicit religious discrimination that excludes Jews from full civic participation. It is, by any reasonable definition, antisemitic.

And the man who said it is Brad Parscale's primary business partner.

Seven Hours With a Holocaust Denier

If the Straus incident could be dismissed as an isolated remark, and it can't, but let's pretend for a moment, the Nick Fuentes meeting makes that defense untenable.

On October 5, 2023, Jonathan Stickland, then-president of Dunn's Defend Texas Liberty PAC, hosted Nick Fuentes at the PAC's Fort Worth office. For seven hours.

Nick Fuentes is not a complicated figure to evaluate. He is a white supremacist. He is a Holocaust denier. He has openly praised Adolf Hitler. He attended the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. He has called for "total Aryan victory" and a "holy war" against Jews.[14],[15]

This isn't some fringe character Stickland might have accidentally bumped into at a conference. You don't accidentally meet with a Holocaust denier for seven hours. You don't accidentally provide hospitality to a man who praises Hitler.

The Texas Tribune observed Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi outside the building during Fuentes's visit. Two other individuals with ties to Fuentes or white nationalist groups, Ella Maulding and Konner Earnest, were spotted at the location.[16]

When the scandal broke, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said Dunn characterized the meeting as "a serious blunder."[17]

A blunder. Seven hours with a Hitler admirer is a "blunder." Like accidentally replying-all on an email, or forgetting to pick up dry cleaning.

Defend Texas Liberty PAC issued a two-sentence statement: "We reject Speaker Phelan's effort to combine Defend Texas Liberty PAC with Nick Fuentes. We oppose Mr. Fuentes' incendiary views."[18]

What's missing? Any explanation for why the Holocaust denier spent seven hours at their office. Any accounting for why white nationalist associates were present. Any real accountability.

Stickland was quietly replaced as PAC president. But the money kept flowing. The network kept operating. Just under a new name.

The Shield: How Israel Credentials Launder Antisemitism

Here's where the story becomes genuinely cynical.

On October 9, 2023, one day after Speaker Dade Phelan condemned the Fuentes meeting, and after 60 House Republicans called for the Texas GOP to cut ties with Defend Texas Liberty, Tim Dunn posted on X: "I am proud to have been named as a top 50 Christian ally of Israel by the Israel Allies Foundation, and call on all people to stand with Israel at this time of need."[19],[20]

The timing tells you everything. When accused of hosting Holocaust deniers, Dunn's first instinct was to brandish his Israel credentials. When confronted with white supremacist ties, he reached for the pro-Israel shield.

And then he did it again. In late October 2025, Kevin Roberts, Dunn's protégé who moved from running Dunn's Texas Public Policy Foundation to leading the Heritage Foundation, released a video defending Tucker Carlson after Carlson gave Nick Fuentes a friendly, unchallenging interview. Roberts called Carlson "a close friend of the Heritage Foundation" and said that "canceling" Fuentes "is not the answer either."[21],[22]

The backlash was immediate. At least five members of Heritage's antisemitism task force resigned. Economist Stephen Moore quit after 12 years. Major donors threatened to pull funding. Staff members called for Roberts' resignation during an all-staff meeting, with one attendee saying Roberts showed "a stunning lack of both courage and judgment."[23],[24]

Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said of Roberts' comments: "When the head of a leading conservative think tank publicly declares that he stands with a vile pundit who detests Christian Zionists... you know that the conservative movement has a problem."[25]

And just days later, right on cue, Tim Dunn posted on X that he'd made the Israel Allies Foundation's Top 50 Christian Allies list again, for 2025.[26]

The same playbook. The same shield. The same cynical deployment of Israel credentials the moment antisemitism scandals erupt in his network.

This is not coincidence. This is a strategy.

Tim Dunn serves as Chairman of the Christian Advisory Board of the Israel Allies Foundation. He was ranked #44 on the IAF's 2022 "Top 50 Christian Allies" list.[27],[28]

Dunn holds a leadership role in the organization's governance structure.[29],[30] His Israel Allies Foundation credentials function as rhetorical insurance, a credential he can brandish whenever his antisemitic associations surface. "How can I be antisemitic? I'm on Israel's Top 50 list!"

But supporting a foreign state's geopolitical interests while excluding Jews from American civic equality is not philosemitism. It's instrumentalization.

The Christian Zionist Paradox

Tim Dunn's relationship with Israel reveals a critical dynamic in American Christian Zionism: support for the State of Israel can coexist perfectly with antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in American society.

The theological basis resolves the apparent contradiction. Christian Zionist support for Israel is often rooted in end-times theology, not in concern for Jewish people's welfare or equality. Israel plays a role in biblical prophecy about Christ's return, making support for the Israeli state instrumental to Christian eschatological goals.

Dunn has been explicit about this framework. In a 2019 speech to the Convention of States, he stated: "When we started the Convention of States, and I was there at the beginning, I knew we had to have a spiritual revival, a Great Awakening and a political restoration for our country to come back to its roots."[31]

In sermons, he has described born-again Christians as God's response to "Lucifer and his army of demons," calling them "faith superheroes" appointed to wield "authority to reign." He has said that politics is the arena where Christians are "made to rule and reign," viewing earthly existence as a proving ground for those who will govern alongside Jesus in the "kingdom to come."[31:1],[9:1]

In his podcast, Dunn stated: "Jesus won't be on the ballot, OK? Now, eventually, he's going to take over the government and we can look forward to that. In the meanwhile, we're going to have to settle."[9:2]

This is Christian Dominionism. The Seven Mountains Mandate. The belief that Christians must take control over government, education, media, arts, entertainment, business, and religion.

It's the theological framework that produces statements like "only Christians should hold leadership positions." It's not a gaffe, it's the logical conclusion of the worldview.

And it's completely compatible with "supporting Israel" as a prophetic necessity while excluding actual Jewish Americans from political leadership.

The Influenceable Operation

The Parscale-Dunn partnership isn't just investment money and advisory fees. They coordinate political operations together.

In June 2023, Parscale and Dunn co-headlined an event in Fort Worth sponsored by Influenceable, a company that recruits conservative influencers for political advocacy without disclosing the financial relationships. The event recruited Gen Z conservative influencers to promote Attorney General Ken Paxton and the film "Sound of Freedom."[32],[33]

After the event, Parscale and nine other attendees posted about the film at least 50 times using identical talking points.[32:1]

Campaign finance records show that Defend Texas Liberty PAC, funded primarily by Dunn, paid $18,000 to "Influencable LLC" [sic] just days before the Texas House investigation into Paxton became public.[33:1],[32:2]

This is what coordinated influence operations look like. The same AI manipulation tools. The same undisclosed financial relationships. The same network of paid advocates pretending to be grassroots supporters.

Influenceable has a "strategic relationship" with Parscale's Campaign Nucleus, the platform that serves Trump's 2024 campaign and received over $1.5 million from Trump-affiliated committees.[34],[35]

The same infrastructure. The same funding source. The same lack of transparency about who's paying whom.

Follow the Money

Let's trace the financial flows that make Brad Parscale's "antisemitism fighting" contract so grotesquely cynical:

Dunn → AiAdvertising/Parscale: $7.5 million for AI political manipulation tools[7:2],[8:2],[9:3]

Dunn → MAGA Inc.: $5 million (December 2023)[7:3]

MAGA Inc. → Campaign Nucleus (Parscale): Client relationship, money flowing to Parscale's company[7:4]

Israel → Parscale: $6 million to "combat antisemitism"[1:1],[2:1]

Parscale is being paid by Israel to combat antisemitism while simultaneously being paid by an antisemite to build the AI manipulation infrastructure that could be used to spread the very discriminatory messaging he's supposedly combating.

The tools don't care about ideological consistency. The algorithms are agnostic. Whether you're targeting voters based on their "prejudices and fears" to elect Christian nationalist candidates or shaping AI conversations about Israel, the technology is the same.

And Parscale profits from both ends.

The Kevin Roberts Connection

The cynicism extends beyond Parscale himself. The entire network operates through what might be called ideological money laundering, using institutional legitimacy to sanitize extremist associations.

Kevin Roberts is Tim Dunn's protégé. Roberts ran Dunn's Texas Public Policy Foundation before becoming president of the Heritage Foundation, the $150 million conservative policy infrastructure that produced Project 2025.[36],[37]

Dunn was TPPF's vice chairman for years. He helped shape the organization that incubated Roberts' career. When Roberts moved to Heritage, he brought the Dunn network's approach with him.

So when Roberts released a video on October 30, 2025 defending Tucker Carlson after Carlson gave Nick Fuentes a friendly, unchallenging interview, calling Carlson "a close friend" and saying "canceling" Fuentes "is not the answer", he was representing the same ideological ecosystem that Tim Dunn funds.[21:1],[22:1]

Heritage Foundation explicitly denied "distancing" from Carlson. Roberts said the think tank wouldn't "take direction from comments on X" or "take direction from members or donors."[38],[39]

The backlash has gutted Heritage's credibility. At least five members of Heritage's antisemitism task force, called "Project Esther", resigned. Major donors threatened to pull funding. Economist Stephen Moore quit after 12 years. More than a dozen staff members have since left to join Mike Pence's competing organization.[23:1],[40]

Former Ambassador David Friedman's assessment was blunt: "When the head of a leading conservative think tank publicly declares that he stands with a vile pundit who detests Christian Zionists... you know that the conservative movement has a problem."[25:1]

And through it all, Tim Dunn, Roberts' mentor, TPPF's vice chairman, the man who funded the network that produced Roberts, said nothing critical. Instead, days later, heDec 27, 2025 posted about making the Israel Allies Foundation's Top 50 list again.[26:1]

The personnel pipeline runs from Texas Public Policy Foundation to Heritage Foundation to America First Policy Institute. The same donors fund the same network of think tanks, media operations, and AI manipulation infrastructure. And at every level, the antisemitic associations are either tolerated, minimized, or actively defended.

The Texas GOP Can't Even Ban Nazis

You may recall in late 2023, the Texas GOP executive committee narrowly rejected a resolution that would have banned associating with Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis, and antisemites.[41]

Some committee members argued such a ban could "create a slippery slope" and "complicate the party's relationship with donors or candidates."[42]

Let's be specific about which donor they were worried about.

According to ProPublica, in 2024, Tim Dunn and his associated entities provided two-thirds of the donations to the state Republican Party.[43] Two-thirds. The Texas GOP couldn't ban Nazi associations because doing so might upset the man who funds two-thirds of their operations, the same man whose PAC president had just hosted Nick Fuentes for seven hours.

This isn't speculation. This is math. When one donor controls two-thirds of your funding, and that donor's organization just got caught hosting a Holocaust denier, you either confront the donor or you water down the anti-Nazi resolution. The Texas GOP chose option two.

Only after public outcry did the executive committee pass a "significantly watered-down version" of the anti-Nazi resolution.[42:1]

At the 2024 Texas GOP convention, one delegate captured the party's Christian nationalist turn: "If you're accused of being a RINO, you're essentially not as Christian as someone else. God help you if you're Jewish."[44]

This is the environment Tim Dunn's money has cultivated. This is the political infrastructure Brad Parscale helps operate. And this is what "combating antisemitism" looks like when your business partner believes only Christians should lead.

What "Combating Antisemitism" Actually Requires

Consider what Brad Parscale is being paid $6 million to combat:

  • Conspiracy theories about Jewish power and dual loyalty
  • Holocaust denial and minimization
  • Claims that Jews control media, finance, or government
  • Violent threats against Jewish communities
  • White supremacist organizing

Now consider what his business partner Tim Dunn is actively doing:

  • Telling Jewish elected officials only Christians should hold leadership positions[12:1]
  • Funding a PAC whose president hosted a Holocaust denier for seven hours[14:1],[15:1]
  • Using Israel credentials as a rhetorical shield when his antisemitic ties were exposed[19:1],[20:1]
  • Promoting a theology that explicitly reserves governance for Christians[31:2],[9:4]
  • Funding a political ecosystem where the GOP can't even ban Nazi associations without worrying about hurting his feelings.[41:1],[42:2]

If you're fighting antisemitism while financially entangled with someone who enables it, you're not fighting antisemitism. You're providing cover for it.

The Weaponization Problem

Both Parscale's Israel work and Dunn's IAF role contribute to something insidious: the weaponization and degradation of "antisemitism" as a concept.

When documented antisemites can use pro-Israel credentials as a shield, when Tim Dunn can say "only Christians should lead" and then post about being a "top 50 Christian ally of Israel", the term loses its power to identify actual anti-Jewish prejudice.

When the accusation of antisemitism is deployed against critics of Israeli government policy while people who host Holocaust deniers hide behind their IAF board positions, the word stops meaning what it should mean.

This makes Jews less safe, not more.

The Business Model of Moral Laundering

There's a type of operator in Washington who has always existed, the mercenary who will work for anyone if the price is right. But Parscale represents something newer and more corrosive: the mercenary who works for contradictory clients simultaneously, using the same tools to serve incompatible masters.

The AI manipulation infrastructure doesn't care whether it's targeting American voters for Christian nationalist candidates or shaping ChatGPT conversations about Israel. The algorithm is agnostic. The quarterly reports are consistent.

  • From Dunn: $7.5 million for AI tools that target voters based on "prejudices and fears"[7:5],[8:3]
  • From Israel: $6 million to "combat antisemitism" using AI influence[1:2],[3:1]
  • From Salem Media: Chief Strategy Officer position to integrate both clients' messaging into 200+ radio stations[45],[4:1]

The contradictions are a feature, not a bug. They provide plausible deniability in all directions. When critics point to Dunn's antisemitic associations, his supporters note his "pro-Israel" credentials. When critics question the Israel contract, Parscale's team points to his "fight against antisemitism."

Everyone has cover. Everyone has talking points. And the underlying rot continues unexamined.

At Least The Checks Clear

Brad Parscale moved across the country to live around the corner from Tim Dunn's compound. He accepted at least $7.5 million in investment from Dunn's entities. He coordinates political operations with Dunn's PACs. He co-headlines events with Dunn recruiting influencers for undisclosed advocacy.

Then he signed a $6 million contract with the State of Israel to "combat antisemitism."

This isn't cognitive dissonance. It's not a contradiction that requires explanation. It's the business model working exactly as intended.

Tim Dunn believes only Christians should lead. He funds organizations that host Holocaust deniers. He promotes theology that reserves governance for Christians. When confronted with these associations, he brandishes his Israel Allies Foundation credentials.

Brad Parscale builds the AI tools that target voters based on their "prejudices and fears." He takes the money from both the antisemite and the state that wants to fight antisemitism. He deploys the same manipulation infrastructure for contradictory purposes.

The algorithms don't care. The technology is agnostic. The checks clear.

And somewhere in Midland, Texas, around the corner from each other's compounds, the partners keep working. The tools keep running. The money keeps flowing.

You can't combat antisemitism while being bankrolled by one. But you can pretend to. And apparently, that's good enough.

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