JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel will honor the late Charlie Kirk for his work combating antisemitism at a conference in late January, four months after the conservative activist was assassinated while speaking at an American university.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Wednesday evening that Kirk will be given an award at the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Jerusalem. Several pro-Israeli leaders are expected to attend the event, among them Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Not entirely. Kirk started slowly turning on Israel about a month before his death. Probably because all the right-wingers were leaving him and going to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes. Grifting requires an audience to grift to. Kirk even invited some prominent anti-Israel figures and Tucker which some of his donors were not too happy about.
Anyone can fake a chat stream. And Owens is a notorious hack who will happily just make shit up for her rube base.
Publicly, Kirk was never anti-Israel.
In 2024, Kirk channeled $85M through his organization, largely via the Mercer and Adelson families. He was getting this windfall precisely because Tucker (their former leading conservative flak) had started drinking his own kool-aid.
ToiletPaperUSA’s show confirmed the leaked texts were real and Candace didn’t fake them https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-israel-candace-owens-turning-point-10845300
That’s semi true but Kirk started doing some fence sitting and invited guests like Dave Smith. He also started making statements like this
https://youtube.com/shorts/pUBc7Ow9qMU
Fun fact Kirks wife snipe-approached Kirk during a holiday in Israel. The rabbit hole goes pretty deep and Kirk was very deep into the Israel lobby. But he was starting to invite some people the Israel lobby really didn’t like, such as Tucker and KKKlandace Owens and was starting to lose a lot of Zionist donors over it. Charlie had to choose between losing Zionist donors bleeding out more of his base and he chose the first.
If you ask me whether Israel killed him I’d say no, but if after 50 years it turns out Israel actually did it I wouldn’t be that surprised.