cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/34808375
In the months leading up to his death, Charlie Kirk rejected a funding offer from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and grew increasingly concerned about pressure from pro-“Israel” figures, according to a longtime friend who spoke to The Grayzone.
While no evidence links “Israel” to the assassination, speculation continues to spread rapidly.
Kirk was devoted Zionist, full stop.
However, a large portion of his audience was Gen Z, and their negative views on Israel are more in line with their generation as a whole, then with the standard Republican platform.
So occasionally he had to give them a bone to make it look like he’s wasn’t who he actually was.
Conspiracy theorists on X are saying Israel is behind it and that Tyler Robinson is a patsy/fall guy.
Motive is that Kirk had criticized Israel in recent months. There is a clip too where he expresses frustration at being called anti-Semitic just for having some daylight between his view and Israel’s current actions.
Idk, hosting Dave Smith and refusing money (if true) are not small bones for me. All of this smells fishy af.
Exactly, and I’m assuming you disliked Charlie Kirk .
So if his token gestures were enough to make you question his devotion to Israel, how do you think they were interpreted and received by his Gen Z audience, those already predisposed to liking him?
Israel could have orchestrated it. They are allied to nazis so it all checks out. I wonder if the shooter had a terminal disease and his gf and family will get something in return.
Speculation you say? I’ll take three!