An Israeli government-backed public relations campaign aimed at evangelical Christians lists 38 Arizona churches as potential targets.
Publicly available documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in late September say the goal of the campaign is "encouraging Christians to have a more favorable view of the Nation of Israel."
One of its proposed tools is geofencing: drawing a virtual boundary around places of worship and sending targeted ads to cell phones that enter the boundary. According to the documents, the campaign plans to "geofence the actual boundaries of every major church in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado and all Christian colleges during worship times."
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