President Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale has registered as a foreign agent for Israel, hired to create digital campaigns combating antisemitism in a contract worth $6 million.
Parscale filed paperwork with the Foreign Agents Registration Act saying he began work for the Israeli government on Sept. 18. He registered a company called Clocktower X LLC and is primarily corresponding with Israel’s minister of Foreign Affairs and Eran Shayovich, listed as chief of staff at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to his LinkedIn.
Parscale’s contract was first reported by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Washington-based think tank that advocates for restraint in foreign policy.
According to Parscale’s contract, his company is hired to create content where at least 80 percent “is tailored to Gen Z audiences across platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, podcasts, and other relevant digital and broadcast outlets.”
The contract also states that “Agency shall provide strategic communications, planning, and media services in support of Client’s engagement by the State of Israel to develop and execute a nationwide campaign in the United States to combat antisemitism.”
Fernando Cerimedo, an Argentine political operative who has worked on right-wing campaigns across Latin America, was arrested in Bolivia this week in connection with the attempted murder of a woman with whom he reportedly had a romantic relationship.
As Drop Site News pointed out, he is business partners with President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale, and The Economist has called him “MAGA’s man in LatAm” for “forging close ties” to the US leader’s right-wing movement.
Aug. 19 (UPI) — Bolivian prosecutors will seek six months of pretrial detention for Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo, a former campaign adviser to Argentine President Javier Milei and an adviser to Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, over his alleged role as the intellectual author of a shooting attack against his former partner, Nadia Beller.
Santa Cruz departmental prosecutor Alberto Zeballos said Wednesday that prosecutors filed charges against Cerimedo for attempted femicide and will request that he remain for 180 days in Palmasola prison while the investigation moves forward, Bolivian newspaper EL DEBER reported.
“We have an alleged perpetrator in custody, as the intellectual author,” Zeballos said, referring to Cerimedo.
Prosecutors also opened a second investigation into Cerimedo in La Paz for alleged illicit enrichment after raiding two homes linked to the consultant and finding money, a satellite phone, valuables and vehicles, including one equipped with security features reserved for official use, according to La Paz departmental prosecutor Luis Carlos Torrez.
Israel has hired Clock Tower X LLC, a company with conservative leanings led by Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, with a $6 million contract to promote pro-Israel content on social media platforms
Israel has hired Clock Tower X LLC, a company with conservative leanings led by Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, with a $6 million contract to promote pro-Israel content on social media platforms.
The campaign will primarily target TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and podcasts, aiming to reach 50 million monthly impressions.
The company is also tasked with creating websites designed to shape Israel’s representation in AI models like ChatGPT and using MarketBrew AI to amplify pro-Israel narratives in Google and Bing search results.
The billionaire’s move to the Southern Cone is less about taxes or paranoia than about a vision of political and economic control
Pablo AlabarcesPablo Alabarces is a distinguished professor of popular culture in the faculty of social sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a senior researcher at CONICET
June 25, 2026
What Is Peter Thiel up to in Argentina?
The billionaire’s move to the Southern Cone is less about taxes or paranoia than about a vision of political and economic control
Pablo AlabarcesPablo Alabarces is a distinguished professor of popular culture in the faculty of social sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a senior researcher at CONICET
June 25, 2026
Peter Thiel holds up money at a bitcoin conference in Miami in April 2022. (Marco Bello/Getty Images)
Javier Milei’s rise to power in Argentina has transformed the country into a laboratory for the global far right and tech capital. At the center of this convergence stands Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Palantir, who has been living in Buenos Aires for just over a month.
Some commentators in the press and on social media have claimed that Thiel’s relocation represents a new flight of defeated Nazis to South America (though Thiel is not a Nazi, let alone a defeated one). Others suggest that his interest in the Southern Cone is due to fear of wealth taxes in California or a global collapse. Thiel’s arrival in Argentina is not, however, the product of paranoia, a mystical impulse or fascination with Javier Milei’s rhetoric; it is a logistical operation coordinated by a network of intermediaries, advisers and think tanks belonging to the transnational far right. And ultimately, it is part of a larger project of political and economic control.
After the end of World War II, many Nazi criminals escaped to South America — often with the covert support of local governments. None, of course, made it public; the Nazis had very bad press in Latin America in the postwar period. Among them, the government of Juan Perón (1946-1955) in Argentina attempted to recruit German scientists, much as the U.S. did with Wernher von Braun, a German-American aerospace engineer who was a member of the Nazi Party and one of the most important champions of space exploration in the 20th century. Perón’s attempt was a fiasco: Ronald Richter was neither much of a Nazi nor much of a scientist, though he managed to get Perón to finance a hydrogen isotope fusion energy project for several years, which was later revealed to be a hoax.
Far more serious was the case of SS officer Adolf Eichmann, a pivotal figure in the implementation of the “Final Solution,” who was abducted in Buenos Aires by the Mossad in 1960, taken to Israel, tried and executed. Over the years, the presence of Nazis in Argentina (and Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay) turned the country into a sort of pop-culture metaphor for a criminal safe haven. When the Blue Meanies are defeated by the psychedelic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the animated Beatles film “Yellow Submarine,” one of them asks, “Where can we flee? To Argentina?” The existence of a relatively significant German immigrant community in certain areas of Argentina contributed to the myth.
It is surely for this reason that a recent article in The Nation magazine begins by connecting Peter Thiel’s move to Argentina with that of Nazi criminals. Its author, David Futrelle, also jokes about the infamous escape of British criminal Ronnie Biggs to Brazil in 1964 (Biggs and 14 other men stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail Train in 1963). But Thiel is no train robber either; he is a German-born billionaire, naturalized as an American and later a New Zealander, who could become Argentine and, just in case, has also bought land in Uruguay. It is certainly an irony for a patron of JD Vance and the forces of “antiglobalist” nationalism to himself have citizenship in so many countries and be, in effect, a hyperglobal rootless cosmopolitan.
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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