OPINION:
It happened before our eyes in May 2021. Within 72 hours, more than 2 million bots flooded the Facebook page of my organization, the Jerusalem Prayer Team. It was a digital tsunami of hatred and deception. You have to ask yourself, Who would unleash such machines to silence prayer?
Around that same time, radical networks launched coordinated campaigns that tanked Facebook’s ratings on Apple and Google. These weren’t random trolls but a calculated cyber assault. When it reached our doorstep, Mark Zuckerberg shut down the Jerusalem Prayer Team — 77 million strong — and blamed us. Our “crime”? A simple image of myself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. That was enough to trigger an algorithmic avalanche of antisemitic venom.
This wasn’t a glitch. It was darker: the spirit of Antichrist, expressed through artificially intelligent Christophobia. Since that day, artificial intelligence has grown more cunning. It can tag, track and target your posts the moment you write anything in defense of Israel. It floods your feed until truth appears as hate. This isn’t just technology; it’s theology written in code.
A new war is unfolding — not on battlefields but in the cloud. The soldiers are bots, and the victims are evangelical Christians and defenders of Israel being gaslit into silence or seduced by replacement theology. Through the veins of social media, an ancient lie now travels at the speed of light.
This isn’t accidental. A psychological operation funded by Qatar and its proxies seeks to fracture U.S. evangelical support for Israel. AI-generated comments manufacture the illusion of public consensus. Propaganda disguised as moral nuance spreads through podcasts and influencers, turning friends of Israel into opponents. It is the same old hatred, reborn in digital form, from Pharaoh to Pharaoh’s algorithms.
Years ago, my friend Shimon Peres warned that 21st-century wars would be ideological, economic and proxy, fought via media. He was right. The ideological battle of the Gaza Strip, financed by Qatar and Turkey, is waged through headlines and hashtags.
We now live in an age where truth is shadow-banned, lies are algorithm-boosted and virtue is weaponized as funding. The Jerusalem Prayer Team was not merely a website; it was also a wall of intercession. When they tore it down, they tested a weapon.
The Antichrist isn’t coming. He’s online.
MIKE EVANS
Founder, Friends of Zion
Dallas, Texas
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