Journalist Max Blumenthal reveals how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has frantically tried to co-opt the narrative around conservative star Charlie Kirk’s assassination to maintain support among America’s Christian right.
In the background, Kirk began to distance himself from Netanyahu’s policies, showcasing a widening divide among Israel’s essential US supporters. Netanyahu’s fervent propaganda efforts suggest a significant political turmoil that risks unravelling long-lasting partnerships just as Max reveals the true situation.
Watch the video as Max Blumenthal exposes Netanyahu’s desperate attempt to control the narrative around Charlie Kirk’s death:
Max Blumenthal explains how Netanyahu is frantically trying to spin Charlie Kirk’s death to keep pro-Israel support strong in the US.
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Transcripts:
Nima R. Alkhorshid
“Max, can we discuss the developments in the United States, particularly the assassination of Charlie Kirk and how the Israeli government, with a focus on Benjamin Netanyahu, is reacting? What is Netanyahu’s fixation with the Charlie Kirk case?”
Max Blumenthal
“I can’t even recall how many videos and interviews Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has produced about Charlie Kirk since the prominent conservative figure was killed on September 10th. Netanyahu quickly responded with condolences for Charlie Kirk, just moments after the incident. It was unsettling. As Kirk had just died, Netanyahu was beginning to stake a claim on Charlie Kirk’s legacy. I have covered Charlie Kirk’s career for a decade. He wasn’t just a leading conservative youth activist; he was also a significant non-Jewish ally that Israel’s self-proclaimed Jewish state held in the US. Kirk had begun to distance himself from the Israeli narrative, particularly Netanyahu’s, and had considered urging Netanyahu to step down, as he privately loathed Netanyahu in the months before his death. He faced immense pressure from Zionist advocates closely linked to Netanyahu and the wealthy elite Netanyahu has influence over in the US. The pressure aimed to deter him from hosting critics of Israel at his TPUSA events, including voices like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene. Kirk was steadfastly resisting.”
Max Blumenthal
“Netanyahu attempted to obscure this history and current situation, primarily occurring behind closed doors, but those observant of Charlie Kirk, like myself, were aware of its occurrence due to his public comments about the lobbying attempts from Israel he was experiencing. Kirk questioned why he couldn’t prioritize his own nation over a foreign one? So Netanyahu tries to erase that part of the story, portraying Charlie Kirk as a champion of Israel posthumously. He began conducting interviews on Fox touting how much Charlie admired Israel. Additionally, he released a video on Twitter X showing Netanyahu discussing a letter from Charlie, which was based on an invitation Netanyahu extended for Kirk to visit Israel for a propaganda tour, funded by Israel, two weeks prior to Kirk’s death.”
Max Blumenthal
“And Netanyahu didn’t say whether that, whether Charlie Kirk accepted his invitation.”
Max Blumenthal
“The rationale behind Netanyahu’s approach, addressing your initial inquiry, is that Israel depends on support from American Christians, primarily conservative men, to engage in the conflict against Iran that Netanyahu envisions. This is similar to the support needed for the battle Israel pushed for against Iraq.”
Max Blumenthal
“And so they need to keep the MAGA base on their side and Charlie Kirk would have been the perfect symbol for that. And then the gray zone comes in and screws everything up because I had been talking to friends I knew of Charlie Kirk about this transformation he was experiencing in private. And my article about that and how he personally detested Netanyahu was one of the most viral pieces we have ever published at the gray zone. And I followed it up by exposing, we broke the story at the gray zone by exposing the secret summit that one of Netanyahu’s top billionaire cutouts in the United States, Bill Ackman, had convened in the Hamptons where basically Charlie Kirk was supposed to oversee an influencer summit where influencers were going to be paid to generate millions of clicks and impressions for Israel and everyone got invited on a propaganda tour to Israel. This was not supposed to be known and the summit devolved into what was described to me by one attendee as a disaster when Bill Ackman, the billionaire donor close to Netanyahu, started challenging and pressuring Charlie Kirk about his views on Israel. And then another Zionist influencer, this young British lawyer who is one of the biggest Zionist thugs in London trying to get every protester arrested. Her name is Natasha Hausdorf, started screaming at Charlie Kirk.”
Max Blumenthal
“And when this got out there, Candace Owens, a former TPU SA, associate of Kirk, longtime friend of Charlie Kirk, subsequent to the publication of my article about that influencer summit, Candace Owens goes live and provides more details about the summit. And from there, the entire Zionist world of bigwigs and donors and operatives who are close to Netanyahu in the United States, goes into full meltdown mode and launches this all out campaign to destroy Candace Owens’ reputation.”
Max Blumenthal
“They’re falsely claiming that the gray zone is funded by Iran. They’re trying everything they can to discredit this reporting.”
Max Blumenthal
“And then finally, Netanyahu does another video where he comes out and announces on his own, on the prime minister’s own channel on Twitter X and other social media networks that he did not kill Charlie Kirk.”
Max Blumenthal
“I never accused him of killing Charlie Kirk. I said there was no evidence that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, but he felt the need to proclaim that Israel killed Charlie Kirk. And he begins denouncing everyone who has reported that Charlie Kirk actually didn’t like him.”
Max Blumenthal
“So this got all the way to Netanyahu and he is in full panic mode. And again, the reason why Netanyahu is panicking, the reason why these, the Zionist network in the US is panicking is because they are losing their last base of support, which is actually their most critical base of support. What Israel lobbyists referred to as Israel’s safety belt in the Bible belt. And it’s that base that they require of Christian, young, white, mostly white men who will go and fight Israel’s wars on their behalf against Iran and its allies.”
