by Lawrence Erickson, The Unz Review:
It wasn’t until the evening that I learned that Charlie Kirk had been shot. As the sun was going down, I began a routine phone call with a politically involved friend of mine, and I asked how he was doing. He sounded distressed and told me that he was shaken by the news of the day. Having not browsed social media since morning, I assumed he was referring to the killing of Iryna Zarutska on the subway. Although that killing was tragic, that sort of event has unfortunately become very common so I was confused that it seemed to have such an impact on him.
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He then told me that Charlie Kirk had been shot and killed. I was floored and started asking him rapid-fire questions for details. After learning that the assassin had killed Kirk with a single shot from 200 yards away and had even escaped, my first thought was that it must have been a professional. My second thought was that it was the Israeli Mossad.
After all, I had heard chatter on social media recently about Kirk feuding with many of his Jewish donors, primarily over the fact that he had platformed Tucker Carlson and Carlson had declared that Epstein was working for Mossad. Facing the fact that his base was turning on Israel from under him, but also needing to retain donor support, Charlie Kirk seemed to hope that he could play both sides and tried to explain to his donors that he was helping them through managing the conversation. Unfortunately, Israel does not like their minions to play both sides, and it is easy to see why they may have killed him for this perceived betrayal.
Shortly afterwards, Max Blumenthal released a more detailed exposé outlining how Kirk had felt intimidated by his pro-Israel donors shortly before his death and had even rejected an offer from Netanyahu that would have boxed him into a more pro-Israel position. This, along with the highly professional appearance of the killing, the conspicuously planted evidence that seemed designed to frame a leftist, and other inconsistencies in the official narrative seemed to paint a very clear picture of Israeli culpability.
There was just one problem I could not figure out. Charlie Kirk had spent his entire career defending Israel and continued to do so (at least publicly) up until the very end. An article from Joseph Correro outlines this quite well. Given his transactional nature and dependence on Jewish donors, a complete flip to being anti-Israel seems that it would have been very unlikely. Andrew Anglin notes that Kirk was pretty much the only major media personality with appeal among the youth who would defend Israel at all:
Charlie Kirk was one of the single most fiendish men working in American cultural manipulation. His evil acts go far beyond being literally the only non-Jew under 50 promoting the super-hardline Zionist narratives like “there are no starving Gazans, it’s a staged hoax” and “Israel has never targeted civilians.” Like, literally no one says that sort of stuff anymore, and hasn’t in like a year, and he was out there just reading Netanyahu press releases as fact every single day.
An article from Ambrose Kane also makes the point that Israel rarely assassinates media figures:
Although it’s true that the Israeli government has little qualms about assassinating people they see as a threat, Mossad does not go around killing controversial public figures in the U.S. who criticize them in the way that some think. How many social media influencers do you know that have been direct targets for death by Israel? Many of these same influencers have been ardent critics of Israeli policies and even of the Jewish people themselves – yet they have not been taken out by a sniper! The most strident anti-Semites to have walked the earth and who have published books savagely criticizing Jews have not, to my knowledge, been murdered by Mossad operatives. Even the British historian, David Irving, was never assassinated by the Mossad, although he did suffer greatly in other ways because of what he wrote. A string of Holocaust deniers has been imprisoned over the years (mostly in Europe), including scholars and authors who have published books critical of the Holocaust narrative. Yet I have not known any of them to have been murdered by professional hitmen.
With Kirk dead, a power vacuum has opened up for who will lead the conservative youth in America. Most of his followers will probably go to either Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Andrew Tate or Nick Fuentes, all of whom are far more anti-Israel than Kirk was. Fuentes has already gained nearly 200k Twitter followers and many right-wing figures, such as Steve Bannon, seem to think he is now the de facto leader of right wing youth. Surely it would be better for Israel to have a fence-straddler who could be worked with like Kirk than to leave his millions of followers to be scooped up by other voices that are militantly hostile to them.
