Netanyahu Says Charlie Kirk “Murdered for Speaking Truth and Defending Freedom”

The Times of Israel report­ed on 11 Sep­tem­ber that Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu declared that US activist Char­lie Kirk was “mur­dered for speak­ing truth and defend­ing free­dom.” Netanyahu called Kirk a “lion-heart­ed friend of Israel” who “fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Chris­t­ian civ­i­liza­tion.” The Israeli leader revealed he had spo­ken with the Turn­ing Point USA founder just two weeks ago and invit­ed him to vis­it Israel. “Sad­ly, that vis­it will not take place,” Netanyahu wrote as Israeli offi­cials warned of poten­tial copy­cat polit­i­cal vio­lence fol­low­ing the Utah Val­ley Uni­ver­si­ty shoot­ing. The arti­cle begins:

Israeli lead­ers mourned Char­lie Kirk as a cher­ished friend of the Jew­ish state after the lead­ing voice of the pro-Trump right was shot Wednes­day dur­ing an appear­ance in Utah. Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Ita­mar Ben Gvir warned of poten­tial copy­cat shoot­ings amid Israel’s inter­nal polit­i­cal strife. US Jew­ish groups also react­ed with alarm over the assas­si­na­tion, decry­ing polit­i­cal vio­lence. “Char­lie Kirk was mur­dered for speak­ing truth and defend­ing free­dom,” Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu post­ed on X. “A lion-heart­ed friend of Israel, he fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Chris­t­ian civ­i­liza­tion.” The prime min­is­ter said he had spo­ken with Kirk just two weeks ago and invit­ed him to vis­it Israel. “Sad­ly, that vis­it will not take place,” Netanyahu wrote. “We lost an incred­i­ble human being. Rest in peace, Char­lie Kirk.”

Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-ministers-mourn-lion-hearted-charlie-kirk-some-warn-of-copycat-killings-in-israel/

Key Points

• Netanyahu’s full trib­ute stat­ed: “Char­lie Kirk was mur­dered for speak­ing truth and defend­ing free­dom. A lion-heart­ed friend of Israel, he fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Chris­t­ian civilization.”
• Finance Min­is­ter Beza­lel Smotrich mourned Kirk as “a true friend of Israel” while warn­ing that oppo­nents “want­ed to mur­der the mes­sen­ger of a dif­fer­ent opinion”
• Ben Gvir sug­gest­ed the assas­si­na­tion could inspire vio­lence against the right in Israel, , “The left in the US mur­dered a man of the right. We hope that their imi­ta­tors in Israel won’t succeed.”
• Major US Jew­ish groups, includ­ing the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mit­tee, Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tions of North Amer­i­ca, and Anti-Defama­tion League, con­demned the shoot­ing as hav­ing “no place in our democracy.”

Israel, Charlie Kirk, and the Global National Conservative Alliance

The Glob­al Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (GIOR) recent­ly pub­lished a report titled “Israel and India as Co-Anchors of the Glob­al Nation­al-Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance.” The syn­op­sis of that report begins:

This report exam­ines the emerg­ing ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment between Israel and India with­in the frame­work of the Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance (GNCA). It argues that the two states—historically root­ed in dis­tinct civ­i­liza­tion­al iden­ti­ties and geopo­lit­i­cal traditions—have con­verged around a shared embrace of nation­al-con­ser­v­a­tive gov­er­nance. This con­ver­gence is not pri­mar­i­ly dri­ven by treaties or mil­i­tary alliances but by shared ide­o­log­i­cal frame­works that empha­size civ­i­liza­tion­al nation­al­ism, max­i­mal sov­er­eign­ty, and a tra­di­tion­al­ist social order.

Down­load the full report here.

The GIOR also pub­lished a report today titled “Char­lie Kirk & The Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance.” The syn­op­sis of that report begins:

Char­lie Kirk’s polit­i­cal evo­lu­tion charts a shift from lib­er­tar­i­an youth activism to becom­ing a promi­nent ampli­fi­er of the Nation­al Con­ser­vatism move­ment. After found­ing Turn­ing Point USA in 2012 on a plat­form of free mar­kets and oppo­si­tion to lib­er­al acad­e­mia, he embraced Don­ald Trump’s pop­ulist nation­al­ism in 2016 and reori­ent­ed toward themes of sov­er­eign­ty, immi­gra­tion restric­tion, and Chris­t­ian traditionalism.

Down­load the full report here.

Disclaimer

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