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.
https://xcancel.com/Partisangirl/status/1965872588863033370
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?