> When Charlie Kirk was assassinated last month it took erstwhile
> friends of his a matter of days to start speculating that the Jews
> or Israel killed him. These podcasters and others dishonored his
> memory by claiming that the person caught by the FBI for carrying
> out the shooting could not have done it, or could not have acted
> alone. Soon a full-on twenty-first-century stampede was in
> operation. When the Israeli prime minister issued a video saying
> that of course Israel had nothing to do with the murder of one of
> its most prominent American conservative supporters, those who
> spread the libel doubled down. “I never have to admit not to have
> killed someone I haven’t killed,” they trilled. Because of course if
> an Israeli prime minister did not make a statement on this then the
> Jews could be accused, and if he did deny it then the Jews could be
> accused.
https://www.thefp.com/p/douglas-murray-the-war-israel-wonand
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