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.

But behind the scenes, Kirk was drifting away from Netanyahu’s agenda—highlighting a growing rift within Israel’s critical US support base. Netanyahu’s desperate messaging war signals a deeper political crisis threatening to unravel long-standing alliances just as Max lifts the curtain on what’s really happening.

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, let’s start with what has happened in the United States, the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the way that the Israeli government specifically, particularly Benjamin Netanyahu, was reacting to what has happened in the United States. What is his obsession with the case of Charlie Kirk?”

Max Blumenthal
“Yeah, I’ve lost count of the amount of videos, the number of videos that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has released and the interviews that he has conducted specifically about Charlie Kirk since the conservative operative was killed on September 10th. But Netanyahu immediately weighed in with prayers about Charlie Kirk just minutes after he was killed. It was eerie. His body was still warm and Netanyahu was beginning to claim Charlie Kirk’s legacy. I’ve been writing about Charlie Kirk for 10 years now. He was not just one of the most important conservative youth activists. He was also one of the most critical Gentile assets that the self-proclaimed Jewish state controlled inside the United States. And he had started to move away from the Israeli line and specifically Netanyahu’s line and even entertained the possibility of publicly calling for Netanyahu to resign because he privately despised Netanyahu in the months before his death. He was under enormous pressure from Zionist activists who are close to Netanyahu, basically Netanyahu’s cutouts and the millionaires and billionaires that Netanyahu presides over inside the United States. He was under enormous pressure to kind of fall back to stop providing a platform to Israel critics at his TPUSA events like Tucker Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene. And Charlie Kirk was resisting.”

Max Blumenthal
“So Netanyahu sought to paper over all this history and this reality, which was mostly taking place in private, but which people who paid close attention to Charlie Kirk like me knew were taking, knew was taking place because of the public statements he was making complaining about all of this Israel lobbying he was being subjected to. And why can’t he care most about his own country and not this foreign country? So Netanyahu seeks to bury that history and to make Charlie Kirk out to be the hero of Israel after his killing. And he starts carrying conducting interviews on Fox about how much Charlie loved Israel. Then he introduces a video on Twitter X, Netanyahu personally speaking to a camera about a letter Charlie had written him based on an invitation Netanyahu extended to Charlie Kirk two weeks before his death to visit Israel on a propaganda trip, which would have ostensibly been paid for by Israel.”

Max Blumenthal
“And Netanyahu didn’t say whether that, whether Charlie Kirk accepted his invitation.”

Max Blumenthal
“The reason Netanyahu was doing this, just to answer your original question was because Israel requires American Christian, mostly conservative men to fight the war of Armageddon that Netanyahu wants against Iran. Just as it required them to fight Israel, the war Israel wanted 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.”