Antisemites on the right, the kind who devoutly believe in conspiracy theories, have tried to make their credulous followers believe that Charlie Kirk’s death was arranged by Jews, who were alarmed at what they claim was his distancing himself from the Jewish state. It was absurd; Kirk never expressed any doubts about his steadfast support for, and articulate defense of, the Jewish state. In fact, he wrote a letter earlier this year to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing anguish at the loss of support for Israel even among some on the right, and offered advice as to how the Jewish state could better make its case. More on Kirk’s letter to Netanyahu, proving the depth of his commitment to Israel and the Jewish people, can be found here: “Charlie Kirk’s Words Crush the Conspiracy: Private Letter to Netanyahu Reveals a Steadfast Supporter of Israel,” by David Swindle, Algemeiner, September 30, 2025:
A newly published letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated earlier this month, offers a potent rebuttal to conspiracy theories alleging that the prominent podcaster had turned against the Jewish state in the months before his death.
Far from drifting away from his long record of support for the Jewish state, Kirk’s own words show him urging Netanyahu to develop a stronger social media defense of Israel in what he described as a deteriorating “information war” online and in universities. However, Kirk did also offer distinct notes of criticism in his correspondence.
“One of my greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances with Jews in the fight to protect Judeo-Christian civilization,” Kirk wrote at the top of his letter, which the New York Post reported on Monday. Addressing Netanyahu directly, Kirk said he sought “to lay out our concerns and outline potential remedies. Everything written here is from a place of deep love for Israel and the Jewish people.” He warned that “as Muhammadism spreads into Western societies, it’s critical that Jews and Christians stay united in the effort to contain and roll back radical Islam and Sharia law.”…
While most of the letter offered praise of Israel, on the subject of COVID-19 vaccines and other topics, Kirk did present criticisms and skepticism.
“Our generation was also lied to by the governments of Israel and the US that COVID vaccines were safe and effective,” he wrote. “Israel intelligence missed the boat on Oct. 7, but we’re asked to trust Israeli intelligence 100 percent that Iran is on the cusp of obtaining nuclear weapons. Young conservatives are very skeptical of government proclamations.”
Kirk stated that he understood social media “as well as anyone in the world” and that “from my vantage point, Israel has retreated from social media without a fight. How are you going to win over younger generations if you’re starting out in retreat on social media?”
He advised filling communications staffs with people in their twenties and thirties who “grew up with cell phones and social media — not pay phones and TV news,” and implored Netanyahu to stop treating TikTok as a sideshow. “My campus tour last fall and this spring have received approximately five billion impressions,” Kirk noted, adding that Israel should take advantage of platforms like X, where Elon Musk is “a good friend to Israel.”
TikTok has been one of the major carriers of anti-Israel messaging. But now TikTok’s American operation has been bought by a consortium that includes Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, the company that will oversee and control TikTok’s algorithm. Ellison, the second richest man in the world, will now largely control TikTok. Ellison is also a fervent supporter of Israel, and a major contributor to Israeli charities. No doubt he will make sure that TikTok no longer is such a fount, as it has been for much too long, of anti-Israel material.
Kirk’s letter to Netanyahu, written earlier this year, is an expression of sympathy for the Jewish state and a cry of anguish at its inability to properly make its case, due to both an insufficiency of trained personnel, speaking accent-less English, and a failure to hire people who understand how to appeal to, because they are young themselves, the cohort of younger voters in America. He suggests a number of practical steps for Netanyahu to take, including running efforts at hasbara “like a political campaign.” This means immediate responses to attacks by Israel’s enemies, instead of waiting to consider very methodically all aspects of the matter, which means days can go by before Israel responds. Mark Twain’s famous remark, that “a lie can go halfway round the world, while the truth is still putting on its shoes,”describes the situation of Hamas lies being accepted before Israeli truths are told. One example of this is the strike, supposedly on the Al-Ahli Hospital, with 500 dead, for which Hamas immediately blamed Israel. The international media spread that story before Israel came out with the truth: the strike was the result of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile that had misfired and landed inside Gaza; it fell not on the hospital itself but in a parking lot; 52, not 500, people lost their lives. By the time the IDF was ready with the truth, Hamas’ false narrative had had time to sink in and to convince many members of a largely ill-informed public that “Israel hits Al-Ahli Hospital, 500 feared dead.” Israeli spokesmen at every level also need to master the art of the memorable soundbite, as Prime Minister Netanyahu has done.
No one, except certifiably crazed antisemites such as far-right podcaster Candace Owens and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, or uncrazed antisemites like Tucker Carlson, could still think, after the evidence of this letter, that Charlie Kirk was “moving away from Israel,” and thus, we are expected to believe, powerful Jews had him killed. Charlie Kirk was always right there for Israel, defending without surcease the much-maligned Jewish state.
mgoldberg says
And I think that with the incessant lies that the problem is that they accrue and build a sediment that reinforces the lies long after they are disproved. That being the problem the task is to challenge the liars with their lies over and over as to why they allow these to be generated; and that takes us to the core issue, the core problem. That being that the Islamic call to subjugate all others- esp. Israel, and the Jews- means that lying is more than acceptable and permitted in Sharia law, to Kaffirs. That lying is endemic in Islam because Sharia law says it is and so commands.
Michael King says
Furthermore, Israel is regularly and loudly vilified by the left; using the same logic, why wouldn’t Israel take out the leaders of all the leftist grievance groups like Students for Justice in Palestine? Answer: they haven’t. and to suggest that Israel would take out Charlie Kirk because he was “moving away” from Israel is the height of absurdity. Israel and its people are far more resilient than that.
MJ Raichyk, PhD says
Yes, the comparison to damage from the left makes up for the timing arrows that Charlie was getting worried right before the assassination about Israeli heated attitudes.
People don’t get it that Israelis are an argumentative culture…
The wimpy, politically correct West about has hysterics if someone says things with less than enough correctness… I once long ago had an Israeli phone company operator answer helpfully and assertively ‘What do you want” that was stunningly hilariously different from the western operators saying ”may I help you please” so subserviently but meaning the exact same thing
The date on the letter was MAY 2nd….
The evidence that there was a plan to kill Kirk was the song uploaded in mid August with the refrain ‘Kirk dead at 31”…. THAT fits the timeline of any comments Charlie made to worried people about his safety,, TTYL
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! If Netanyahu was anything close to Putin, or if Mossad had a Putin-like leader, SJP would be far higher on that list, and then maybe Candace Owens and Dave Smith. Charlie would be way down in their priority list
somehistory says
The lies have been told, and re-told, so even the Truth of this letter….how Mr. Kirk felt, what he believed, what he wanted… will not be readily accepted by those who already accept the lies.
True Christians recognize that without Israel and the Hebrew people, Christianity would not exist.
Without the care and dedicated loyalty, the Bible would not have been written and preserved.
God used the Hebrew people to convey His message of Love, Life and Forgiveness to mankind. and to send His Special Son down to us.
The Apostle Peter gave instructions to his brothers, and a part of that is being “always ready to make a defense for your faith.”
Israel can do this….be always ready as Mr. Kirk suggested….don’t wait…get the Truth out as quickly as possible.
James Lincoln says
Excellent spot-on post, somehistory.
Robert says
One might ask if the modus operandi of the Mossad fits a public risky killing where the victim is struck in the neck? Or does a public violent killing more fit the workings of Islam. Consider that Kirk was one of the few voices outside of Jihad watch that was stating the fact that Islam is incompatible with Western culture. One of the only Evangelical Christian voices with a influential say in the politics of the party in power. It’s silly with no evidence to assume Israel has had a part in a killing of an influencer who is open to taking their part. Kirk was entirely closed to Islam and saw them as an enemy of Christianity and America. The details given by the official narrative of his death are full of holes. So who did it? If I had to guess on a perpetrator I would look to Islam first. Israel is way down the list.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I go by the Occam’s Razor explanation – that this was a Trantifa attack 🏳️⚧️. Tyler Robinson was a pro-🏳️⚧️ Leftist who is dating a guy “converting” into a gal (I hope he didn’t have future reproduction in his life plans for Lance Twiggs, once the latter became his “wife”)
islam has a rap sheet long enough in its own right to wrap the earth around the equator several times over. One need not invent allegations against them of which they’re not guilty
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Megyn Kelly too has been going that direction while speaking out of both sides of her mouth. On one hand, she declares herself a full Zionist, but on the other, she says that Israel’s losing support from the US Right after completely losing it from the US Left, and that almost all under-30 Americans are now anti-Israel, on both sides of the aisle
To the extent that it’s true, I do think Israel needs to free itself from all military dependence on the US, so that a future Biden, or even a Trump, will be powerless from stopping Jerusalem from doing whatever it thinks it has to do, from bombing Gaza to trying out regime change in Tehran. Also, Israel provides the US a tremendous amount of intelligence that the CIA would be at a loss to do. So Israel should respond in kind: if most Americans think that Israel is not an ally, or that Israel is not being properly brought to heel (as Dave Smith thinks), then Jerusalem should be the one ending this alliance. We all know that the Kremlin is opportunist, and that Russia would love to have an alliance w/ Israel rather than Iran, whose drones were so worthless that Moscow refused to pay for them
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Also, some of the suggestions described above would depict Americans as shallow beyond belief. On one hand, the Israelis who are talking w/ ya (aside from Bibi, who lived in Philly & studied at MIT) have an accent that Americans supposedly have difficulties w/, but somehow, the Arabs – be it the Rashida Tlaibs, Ilhan Omars, et al have a perfect accent that we have no trouble w/?
TikTok is one thing that kids in their teens or tweens should avoid, regardless of whether it’s managed from Beijing or Hawaii/Woodside (where Larry has his homes). ByteDance’s Chinese counterpart has completely wholesome programming, and Chinese kids don’t spend their social media time talking about their “body-counts” or doing other stupid things and then publishing them for the world to see. If the new TikTok makes the US programming like that, automatically sending the stupid stuff to /dev/null, then there may be a point
But Israel has completely lost the Left – that’s why even Alan Dershowitz is now an Independent. Until now, TikTok had a policy of censoring the Right, so Israel did the right thing by blacklisting it