Israel Hires Firm to Train ChatGPT for Pro-Israel Messaging

The gov­ern­ment of Israel has hired a new con­ser­v­a­tive-aligned firm, Clock Tow­er X LLC, to cre­ate media for Gen Z audi­ences in a con­tract worth $6 mil­lion. At least 80 per­cent of con­tent Clock Tow­er pro­duces will be “tai­lored to Gen Z audi­ences across plat­forms, includ­ing Tik­Tok, Insta­gram, YouTube, pod­casts, and oth­er rel­e­vant dig­i­tal and broad­cast out­lets” with a min­i­mum goal of 50 mil­lion impres­sions per month. Clock Tow­er will even deploy “web­sites and con­tent to deliv­er GPT fram­ing results on GPT con­ver­sa­tions.” In oth­er words, Clock Tow­er will cre­ate new web­sites to influ­ence how AI GPT mod­els such as Chat­G­PT, which are trained on vast amounts of data from every cor­ner of the inter­net, frame top­ics and respond to them — all on behalf of Israel. As part of this work, the firm will also use search engine opti­miza­tion soft­ware Mar­ket­Brew AI, a pre­dic­tive AI plat­form that helps clients adapt to algo­rithms and pro­mote their work on search engines like Google and Bing, to “improve the vis­i­bil­i­ty and rank­ing of rel­e­vant narratives.”

Read more: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-chatgpt/

Key Points

• Clock Tow­er X will cre­ate new web­sites to influ­ence how AI GPT mod­els such as Chat­G­PT frame top­ics and respond to them on behalf of Israel, using search engine opti­miza­tion soft­ware Mar­ket­Brew AI to improve the vis­i­bil­i­ty and rank­ing of rel­e­vant narratives.
• For­mer Trump cam­paign man­ag­er Brad Parscale, who hired Cam­bridge Ana­lyt­i­ca dur­ing Trump’s 2016 cam­paign, leads Clock Tow­er X and serves as chief strat­e­gy offi­cer for Salem Media Group, which will inte­grate pro-Israel mes­sag­ing into its con­ser­v­a­tive Chris­t­ian media properties.
• A July Gallup poll found that only 9 per­cent of Amer­i­cans aged 18 to 34 sup­port Israel’s mil­i­tary action in Gaza, while a leaked Stag­well Glob­al sur­vey for the Israeli Min­istry of For­eign Affairs found that 47 per­cent of Amer­i­cans believed Israel is com­mit­ting genocide.
• Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu told pro-Israel influ­encers on Fri­day that social media is the most impor­tant weapon Israel has at its dis­pos­al, stat­ing that the weapons change over time and the most impor­tant ones are the social media.

Israel and the Far Right: How Netanyahu Anchors the Global National Conservative Alliance

Israel has under­gone a pro­found ide­o­log­i­cal realign­ment under Ben­jamin Netanyahu’s lead­er­ship. The coun­try now serves along­side India as a co-anchor of the Glob­al Nation­al-Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance. Netanyahu’s Likud-led coali­tions have con­verged with oth­er nation­al­ist gov­ern­ments through a “civ­i­liza­tion-state” frame­work that pri­or­i­tizes eth­no-reli­gious con­ti­nu­ity over lib­er­al universalism.

Netanyahu has also sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly forged alliances with Euro­pean far-right move­ments based on shared oppo­si­tion to Islam and immi­gra­tion. Likud gained observ­er sta­tus with Patri­ots for Europe in Feb­ru­ary 2025, mak­ing it the first non-EU par­ty to join the far-right Euro­pean Par­lia­ment group along­side Aus­tri­a’s Free­dom Par­ty (FPÖ), France’s Nation­al Ral­ly, and Spain’s Vox. Israel lift­ed its diplo­mat­ic ban on these par­ties despite their prob­lem­at­ic histories—the FPÖ was found­ed by for­mer Nazis and refus­es to rec­og­nize Israel as a Jew­ish and demo­c­ra­t­ic state even while wel­com­ing Likud’s partnership.

Netanyahu has embraced Hun­gary’s Vik­tor Orbán despite Orbán’s gov­ern­ment using anti­se­mit­ic tropes against George Soros. Israel’s for­eign min­is­ter instruct­ed diplo­mats to for­mal­ize engage­ment with far-right par­ties in France, Spain, and Swe­den. Netanyahu even defend­ed Elon Musk after Musk appeared to per­form a Nazi salute at Trump’s inau­gu­ra­tion. Both Israel and India reject lib­er­al-uni­ver­sal­ist mod­els. They con­struct par­al­lel nar­ra­tives of nation­hood root­ed in reli­gion, his­to­ry, and majori­tar­i­an iden­ti­ty. This con­ver­gence rein­forces syn­chro­nized media nar­ra­tives around Islam, “wok­e­ness,” and glob­al institutions.

These transna­tion­al net­works bypass tra­di­tion­al diplo­ma­cy through shared par­tic­i­pa­tion in Nation­al Con­ser­vatism Con­fer­ences. They con­nect gov­ern­ments, think tanks, and dias­po­ra influ­ence net­works across con­ti­nents. How­ev­er, the Nation­al Con­ser­vatism con­fer­ence in Sep­tem­ber 2025 exposed grow­ing inter­nal divi­sions. Younger Amer­i­can con­ser­v­a­tives increas­ing­ly ques­tioned uncon­di­tion­al align­ment with Israel. Real­ist con­ser­v­a­tives chal­lenged Israel as a “tail wag­ging the dog” in U.S. for­eign pol­i­cy. These ten­sions sig­nal poten­tial frac­tures with­in the broad­er alliance.

Exter­nal References:
— A Dubi­ous Alliance: Netanyahu’s Israel and Europe’s Far Right — Green Euro­pean Journal
— Netanyahu’s Glob­al Far-Right Alliances — J Street
— Likud joins Patri­ots for Europe as observ­er mem­ber — The Jerusalem Post
— Major con­ser­v­a­tive split over Israel spills out into the open at Nat­Con — Respon­si­ble Statecraft

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