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Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals [Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil | September 12, 2025 | thegrayzone.com]

A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence provoked a private backlash from Netanyahu’s allies that left him angry and afraid.

The source said anxiety spread within the Trump administration after an apparent Israeli spying operation was uncovered.

Charlie Kirk rejected an offer earlier this year from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to arrange a massive new infusion of Zionist money into his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) organization, America’s largest conservative youth association, according to a longtime friend of the slain commentator speaking on the condition of anonymity. The source told The Grayzone that the late pro-Trump influencer believed Netanyahu was trying to cow him into silence as he began to publicly question Israel’s overwhelming influence in Washington and demanded more space to criticize it.

In the weeks leading up to his September 10 assassination, Kirk had come to loathe the Israeli leader, regarding him as a “bully,” the source said. Kirk was disgusted by what he witnessed inside the Trump administration, where Netanyahu sought to personally dictate the president’s personnel decisions, and weaponized Israeli assets like billionaire donor Miriam Adelson to keep the White House firmly under its thumb.

According to Kirk’s friend, who also enjoyed access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, Kirk strongly warned Trump last June against bombing Iran on Israel’s behalf. “Charlie was the only person who did that,” they said, recalling how Trump “barked at him” in response and angrily shut down the conversation. The source believes the incident confirmed in Kirk’s mind that the president of the United States had fallen under the control of a malign foreign power, and was leading his own country into a series of disastrous conflicts.

By the following month, Kirk had become the target of a sustained private campaign of intimidation and free-floating fury by wealthy and powerful allies of Netanyahu – figures he described in an interview as Jewish “leaders” and “stakeholders.”

“He was afraid of them,” the source emphasized.

At TPUSA, the rift with Israel widens

Kirk was 18 years old when he launched TPUSA in 2012. From its inception, his career was propelled by Zionist donors, who showered his young organization with money through neoconservative outfits like the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He repaid his wealthy backers over the years by unleashing a relentless firehose of anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic diatribes, accepting propaganda trips to Israel, and sternly shutting down nationalist forces challenging his support for Israel during TPUSA events. In the Trump era, few American gentiles had proved more valuable to the self-proclaimed Jewish state than Charlie Kirk.

But as Israel’s genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip drove an unprecedented backlash within grassroots right-wing circles, where only 24% of younger Republicans now sympathize with Israel over the Palestinians, Kirk began to shift. At times, he toed the Israeli line, spreading disinformation about babies beheaded by Hamas on October 7, and denying the famine imposed on the population of Gaza. Yet he simultaneously ceded to his base, wondering aloud if Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli intelligence asset, questioning whether the Israeli government allowed the October 7 attacks to proceed in order to advance long-term political goals, and parroting narratives familiar to his most vociferous critic on the right, streamer Nick Fuentes.

This July, at his TPUSA Student Action Summit, Kirk provided a forum for the right-wing grassroots to vent its fury about Israel’s political hammerlock on the Trump administration. There, speakers from former Fox News stalwarts Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, to the anti-Zionist Jewish comedian Dave Smith, denounced Israel’s blood-soaked assault on the besieged Gaza Strip, branded Jeffrey Epstein as an Israeli intelligence asset, and openly taunted Zionist billionaires like Bill Ackman for “getting away with scams” despite having “no actual skills.”

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Following the confab, Kirk was bombarded with infuriated text messages and phone calls from Netanyahu’s wealthy allies in the US, including many who had funded TPUSA. According to his longtime friend, the Zionist donors treated Kirk with outright contempt, essentially ordering him to fall back into line.

“He was being told what you’re not allowed to do, and it was driving him crazy,” Kirk’s friend recalled. The conservative youth leader was not only alienated by the hostile nature of the interactions, but “frightened” by the backlash.

The friend’s account dovetails with those of multiple right-wing commentators with access to Kirk.

“I think, in the end, Charlie was going through a spiritual transformation,” Candace Owens, a conservative influencer who shifted decisively against Israel after October 7, reflected after her friend’s killing. “I know it, he was going through a lot. There was a lot of pressure, and it’s hard for me to watch the people who were pressuring him just say the things that they’re saying.”

She continued: “They wanted him to lose everything for changing or even slightly modifying an opinion. It’s very hurtful to me.”

Kirk appeared visibly outraged during an August 6 interview with conservative host Megyn Kelly, as he discussed the menacing messages he was receiving from pro-Israel bigwigs.

“It’s all of the sudden: ‘oh, Charlie: he’s no longer with us.’ Wait a second—what does ‘with us’ mean, exactly? I’m an American, okay? I represent this country,” he explained, before addressing the powerful Zionist interests harassing him.

“The more that you guys privately and publicly call our character into question—which is not isolated, it would be one thing if it were just one text, or two texts; it is dozens of texts—then we start to say, ‘whoa, hold the boat here,’” Kirk continued. “To be fair, some really good Jewish friends say, ‘that’s not all of us’… But these are leaders here. These are stakeholders.”

He went on to complain to Kelly, “I have less ability… to criticize the Israeli government than actual Israelis do. And that’s really, really weird.”

In one of his final interviews, conducted with Israel’s premier influencer in the United States, Ben Shapiro, Kirk once again tried to raise the issue of censorship of Israel critics.

“A friend said to me, interestingly: ‘Charlie, okay, we’ve pushed back against the media on COVID, on lockdowns, on Ukraine, on the border,’” Kirk told Shapiro on September 9. “Maybe we should also ask the question: is the media totally presenting the truth when it comes to Israel? Just a question!”

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According to Kirk’s longtime friend, Kirk’s resentment of Netanyahu and the Israel lobby was spreading within Trump’s inner circle. In fact, they said, the president himself was terrified of Netanyahu’s wrath, and feared the consequences of defying him.

During the past year, the Trump insider was told by contacts in the White House that the Secret Service had caught Israeli government personnel placing electronic devices on its emergency response vehicles on two separate occasions.

While The Grayzone was unable to confirm the story with the Secret Service or White House, such an incident would not have been unprecedented. Indeed, according to a report in Politico citing three former senior US officials, a cellphone spying device was placed by Israeli agents “near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington” toward the end of Trump’s first term in 2019.

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounted a similar incident in his memoir, writing that his security team found a listening device in his bathroom soon after Netanyahu used his personal toilet.

The Israel-did-it theory

Kirk was killed this September 10 with a single shot fired by a sniper apparently positioned on a rooftop 200 meters away. He was shot while seated before a crowd of thousands at Utah State University in Orem, Utah on the first leg of his American Comeback Tour. The scene of Kirk collapsing from the impact of a gunshot to his neck just as he began answering a question about transgender mass shooters was perhaps the most shockingly vivid spectacle of assassination – and certainly the most viral – in human history.

There is currently no evidence of an Israeli government role in Kirk’s assassination. However, that has not stopped thousands of social media users from speculating that the pro-Trump operative’s shifting views on the issue contributed in some way to his death. By the time of publication, over 100,000 Twitter/X users have liked a September 11 post by libertarian influencer Ian Carroll declaring about Kirk, “He was their friend. He basically dedicated his life to them. And they murdered him in front of his family. Israel just shot themselves.”

Many advancing the unsubstantiated theory have pointed to a Twitter/X post by Harrison Smith, a personality at the pro-Trump Infowars network, stating on August 13 – almost a month before Kirk’s assassination – that he was told by “someone close to Charlie Kirk that Kirk thinks Israel will kill him if he turns against Israel.”

The frenzied speculation has set off shockwaves in Tel Aviv, where Netanyahu was compelled to explicitly deny that his government killed Kirk during a September 11 interview with NewsMax.

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Netanyahu and his allies bury the Kirk crisis as “big tent” collapses

That appearance was just one of several interviews and statements the Prime Minister dedicated to Kirk in the wake of his killing in an effort to frame the late conservative leader’s legacy in a uniformly pro-Israel light. The major public relations push has occurred while Netanyahu wages a military campaign on seven fronts, punctuated by a regional assassination spree that most recently reached into the heart of Qatar, a US ally.

Netanyahu first tweeted prayers for Kirk at 3:02 PM in the afternoon on September 10, minutes after news of the shooting broke. He has since authored three additional posts about Kirk, even breaking away from the Israeli war cabinet to spend the afternoon of September 11 memorializing the conservative leader on Fox News.

During that interview, Netanyahu did his best to insinuate that Israel’s enemies were responsible for murdering Kirk, despite the fact no suspect was named or in custody at the time:

“The radical Islamists and their union with the ultra-progressives—they often speak about ‘human rights,’ they speak about ‘free speech’—but they use violence to try to take down their enemies,” the Prime Minister told Harris Faulkner.

In a September 10 Twitter/X post eulogizing the conservative leader, the Israeli Prime Minister described a recent phone conversation with Kirk.

“I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel,” Netanyahu declared. “Sadly, that visit will not take place.”

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1965888327938158764

Left unmentioned was whether Kirk declined the invitation—just as he did with the Prime Minister’s offer to reload TPUSA’s coffers with donations from his coterie of wealthy American Jewish cutouts.

At the time of publication, a 22-year-old resident of Utah has been taken into custody after supposedly confessing to killing Kirk. The public may soon learn the true motives of the alleged assassin. Perhaps they will fuel the narrative which Trump and his allies advanced in the immediate wake of the shooting – that a leftist radical was responsible, and that a wave of draconian repression must follow.

But after the shooter’s initial escape and a series of federal law enforcement mishaps, a large sector of Americans will likely never believe the official story. Nor will they ever know where Kirk’s turning point on Israel would have taken the conservative movement.

Four days before the assassination, frustration among pro-Israel commentators bubbled over in public during an Fox News interview in which Ben Shapiro launched a chilling attack on Kirk without naming him.

“The problem with a ‘big tent’ is that you may end up with many clowns inside,” Shapiro told Fox host and fellow Zionist gatekeeper Mark Levin in an apparent critique of TPUSA.

“Just because you’re saying somebody votes Republican—that doesn’t mean that they ought to be the preacher at the front of the church, they’re not the person that ought to be leading the movement, if they are spending all day criticizing the President of the United States as ‘covering up a Mossad rape ring’ or ‘being a tool of the Israelis for hitting an Iranian nuclear facility.’”

When Kirk took his usual place at the “front of the church” four days later, he was cut down by a sniper’s bullet.

Within 24 hours of Kirk’s death, Shapiro announced that he would be launching his own campus speaking tour, vowing: “We’re gonna pick up that blood stained microphone where Charlie left it.”^[[1] https://archive.ph/uGU4p]

Archived Link: https://archive.ph/uGU4p

About Journalists:

Max Blumenthal | Editor-in-Chief

The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

Anya Parampil

Anya Parampil is a journalist based in Washington, DC. She has produced and reported several documentaries, including on-the-ground reports from the Korean peninsula, Palestine, Venezuela, and Honduras.

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The editor of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal, sat down with J-Speak's Rick Sanchez recently to discuss the recent turmoil in the Middle East. Blumenthal detailed the cooked intel that nearly sparked a war with Iran.

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Main Topic: The video discusses how allegedly "cooked intel" and the influence of Israel and its allies within the Trump administration nearly led the US to war with Iran. It also touches on the current state of Israel and its internal issues.

Key Points:

• Cooked Intel: Max Blumenthal reports that during the Trump administration, key figures like CIA Director John Ratcliffe and SenCom chief Michael Kurilla were allegedly feeding Trump disinformation from Israeli sources (Mossad, Netanyahu aids). This included claims about Iran's imminent nuclear breakout capacity and plans to transfer a nuclear warhead to Yemeni Houthis.
• Susie Wilds' Role: Then-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wilds is accused of isolating Trump, ensuring he only heard this pro-Israel narrative, and excluding dissenting voices like Tulsi Gabbard. Blumenthal claims Wilds previously worked directly for Benjamin Netanyahu, even helping with his election campaigns.
• APAC's Influence: The CEO of APAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) allegedly cultivated a relationship with John Ratcliffe since he was a freshman member of Congress, ensuring access and influence within the Trump administration.
• Israeli Coup: Blumenthal describes this situation as an "Israeli coup of US intelligence" aimed at pushing the US into bombing Iran.
• Trump's Motives: Trump is portrayed as wanting a Nobel Peace Prize and believing he could manage a limited strike without further escalation, but he underestimated Israel's destabilizing agenda.
• Israel's Objectives: Netanyahu's primary goal was to get the US to bomb Iran.
• Damage to Israel: Iran inflicted significant economic damage on Israel, targeting its knowledge economy and tech sector, including the Weizmann Institute and Microsoft offices.
• Internal Issues in Israel: The video highlights internal divisions within Israeli society, particularly between secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews, and the growing trend of negative net migration.
• Western Elites and Culture: Western elites are frightened by the growing support for Palestine, as demonstrated by the rapper's stance against the IDF.
• Blinken's Background: Secretary of State Tony Blinken comes from a long line of Israel lobbyists.

Highlights:

• The claim that the White House Chief of Staff was essentially a Netanyahu employee, controlling access to the President and filtering information.
• The assertion that APAC cultivated the CIA director to ensure Israeli intelligence had access to the Trump administration.
• The discussion of the economic and psychological damage inflicted on Israel by Iran.
• The analysis of the internal divisions within Israeli society and the challenges it faces.
• The point that Israel is currently experiencing negative net migration.

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Journalistically Speaking is a weekly podcast hosted by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Rick Sanchez. With over 30 years of experience across major networks like CNN, Fox News, NBC, Univision, and RT, Sanchez brings a seasoned perspective to global news and politics.

The show delves into headline-making stories and often overlooked issues, offering sharp analysis and candid commentary. Sanchez frequently features expert guests, including political analysts and military veterans, to provide in-depth discussions on topics such as U.S. foreign policy, media transparency, and international affairs. Listeners can tune in on platforms like Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, and YouTube.

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the growing freakout of NYC Zionists and establishment Democrats over the primary win of 33-year-old Zohran Mamdani.

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Main Topic: The video analyzes the Zionist backlash following Zohran Mamdani's New York primary victory and what it signifies about the changing political landscape and the declining influence of Zionism.

Key Points:

• Zionist Meltdown: Mamdani's victory triggered a significant negative reaction from Zionist groups, highlighting their fear of losing control and influence through democratic processes.
• Shifting Political Landscape: The election result indicates a growing repudiation of Zionism and a shift in public sentiment, particularly among young people, making Israel a political liability.
• Co-option Attempts: Established Democratic figures like Chuck Schumer are attempting to co-opt Mamdani, similar to how they allegedly co-opted AOC, to moderate his positions and integrate him into the existing political structure.
• Grassroots Movement: Mamdani's success is attributed to a motivated grassroots energy and an understanding that Zionism is toxic, representing a positive development in democratic politics.
• Zionist Billionaire Influence: The video discusses the influence of Zionist billionaires, their coordinated efforts to control political narratives and actions, and their alarm at the prospect of losing influence with Mamdani's potential victory.
• DSA Skepticism: One of the speakers expresses skepticism towards the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), viewing them with suspicion and criticizing their ties to the Democratic Party.
• Comparison to Corbyn: The video draws parallels between the attacks on Mamdani and the smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, emphasizing the need to stand firm against such tactics.

Highlights:

• Mamdani's clever response during a mayoral debate when asked about Israel's right to exist ("with equal rights for all").
• Discussion of Mamdani's family background, including his father's influential work on colonialism and his mother's career as a filmmaker.
• Analysis of the tactics used by Zionist groups, including WhatsApp groups of billionaires plotting political strategies and attempts to link Mamdani to anti-Semitism.
• The observation that many prominent Zionists who advocate for Israel's safety would never choose to live there themselves.

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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the 2025 Special Competitive Studies Project AI Expo in DC, and how Max got ejected for filming and attempting to question a few of the war criminals on hand.

#TheGrayzone

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Main Topic: Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone reports on the Special Competitive Studies Project AI Expo in Washington D.C., highlighting the event's focus on AI and cyber warfare, particularly in relation to China and Israel, and his experience being ejected from the conference for asking critical questions.

Key Points:

• AI Expo Focus: The conference, overseen by Eric Schmidt, brings together AI and cyber warfare contractors, military branches, and intelligence agencies, with a strong emphasis on countering China.
• Israeli and Ukrainian Presence: The Israeli and Ukrainian embassies had prominent booths, with Israel being celebrated for its AI advancements in warfare, specifically the Lavender system.
• Palantir's Role: Palantir, a data analytics company, was a major presence, showcasing its Foundry product, which is being used to centralize data on American citizens.
• Blumenthal's Ejection: Blumenthal was initially warned for filming a reporter questioning Palantir representatives. He was later ejected after questioning former Israeli military intelligence head Amos Yadlin about his role in shaping policies that led to civilian casualties in Gaza.
• Confrontation with "Holocaust Supporter": After questioning Yadlin, Blumenthal was confronted by a woman who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor and accused him of antisemitism. Blumenthal responded by accusing her of supporting a current genocide.
• Lack of Critical Journalism: Blumenthal notes the absence of critical journalists at the conference, with most reporters present being paid by the arms industry to ask softball questions.
• Security Measures: Security at the conference was reportedly concerned about protests and critical questions, discussing measures to vet attendees and search bags.
• Rhombus Power: Another major sponsor, Rhombus Power, was showcasing generative AI that they claimed could predict cataclysmic events, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Highlights:

• Blumenthal's direct confrontation with Amos Yadlin and the woman who accused him of antisemitism, highlighting the hypocrisy of those who weaponize the Holocaust to defend current Israeli policies.
• The description of the AI Expo as a gathering of "AI warlords" and the lack of critical media coverage, underscoring the close relationship between the tech industry, the military, and the arms industry.
• The irony of Palantir, a company focused on restoring control and preventing social unrest, being unable to prevent protests at its own conference.

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Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

@MaxBlumenthal

Our documentary shredding Israel's genocidal post-Oct 7 lies, Atrocity Inc., is now live

@TheGrayzoneNews

Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells The Destruction Of Gaza

Watch @MaxBlumenthal's new documentary takedown of the media deceptions and hoaxes Israel pushed to manufacture consent for its genocidal assault on Gaza

In collaboration w/ @propandco & @sutjhally

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Atrocity Inc.

A documentary by Max Blumenthal that takes us through the events of October 7th and the meticulously manufactured lies that came out of Israeli media. Atrocity Inc. takes a deep look at the mechanisms behind the propaganda created to serve Israeli goals.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1843320308654387634

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal on the dangerously arrogant and clueless thinking paving the path to regional war.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

At Rage Against The War Machine in Washington DC on September 28, 2024, Max Blumenthal slammed Joe Biden's endorsement of the Israeli attack that killed hundreds in order to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and outlined how Greater Israel has grown to encompass the heart of the US political establishment.

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil discuss an upcoming CNN special attacking anti-imperialist influencer and self-described "MAGA communist" Jackson Hinkle, and what it says about the relationship between the US security state and a failing corporate media.

#News, #Democrat Politics, #Jackson Hinkle, #cnn, #lawfare, #pressfare, #russiagate, #putin

@MaxBlumenthal

While sucking up to Genocide Joe’s press secretary & propagandist Jen Psaki, Mehdi did not dare ask if she considered her boss a war criminal. Careerists like him are more comfortable slapping that label on the targets of Washington, and leveraging it to bully antiwar activists.

[Image of Jen Psaki and Mehdi]

@mehdirhasan

Me: "Vladimir Putin is a war criminal in your view? And Assad is a war criminal?"

Jill Stein: "Uh, yes. In so many words."

Me: "What does that mean, 'in so many words'?"

My exchange with the Green Party candidate on war crimes.

Full interview: https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-mehdi-interviews-jill-stein

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@MaxBlumenthal

*Linsey Davis co-hosted the debate, not Kristin Welker. I watch political coverage on ABC maybe once every 4 years, so forgive the mistake.

@MaxBlumenthal

Trump supporters are deluding themselves if they think he won the debate. Trump fell for the bait Kamala's handlers set for him at every possible point, spent much of the debate on the defense, stammered, spewed references that only extremely online members of his base would recognize, and got clobbered on abortion. When Kamala taunted Trump about the size of his rallies, he stumbled cluelessly into her trap.

If Trump had entered the debate with an actual strategy, he would have responded that after Kamala's massive, elaborately staged campaign launch in Oakland in 2020, she failed to win a single delegate, wasted tens of millions of donor money, and was only installed as the Dem nominee by the media and party elites. (That critique only came in latter half of the debate, when it was too late, and most viewers' perceptions had solidified). Similarly, when Kamala cited Goldman Sachs and Wharton to tout her economic credentials, Trump had an easy opportunity to hammer home Goldman's role in the foreclosure crisis that destroyed the lives of millions of hard working Americans. Instead, he grumbled that he graduated from Wharton, before veering off track again. When Kamala predictably raised Trump's call for executing the Central Park 5, he could have reminded voters of how she boasted of jailing massive numbers of Black youth for truancy and marijuana possession. On foreign policy, Trump should have homed in on Dick Cheney's endorsement of Kamala for a redux of his demolition of Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary debates. He had two hours to put forward a critique of a candidate who was not well known to most swing voters, to paint her as a media created phony and reckless warmonger afraid of her own record, and he failed.

Trump supporters are correct that the moderators, David Muir and Kristen Welker, orchestrated the debate in Kamala's favor, never fact checking her and feeding her one alley-oop after another, while relentlessly cornering Trump. Muir and Welker clearly saw the Beltway press corps' disappointment with Dana Bash and Jake Tapper for failing to ruthlessly fact check Trump in the first debate, and seized the chance to burnish their status. In the past, Trump would have recognized the moderators as a second opponent, and blasted the fake news media for its shameless bias. But the Trump of 2016, whose campaign was propelled by a popular sense of anti-establishment betrayal after the Iraq war and financial crash, is a ghost. If he somehow makes it into the Oval Office after this performance, he will be focused on personal survival, with his agenda hijacked and subverted by the forces he once thundered against.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1833909786024521831

@MaxBlumenthal

Here’s the clearest indication yet that Kamala Harris is Bought and Bossed by the Israel lobby, and will do nothing different than Genocide Joe

In between tired bromides, Kamala repeats the “Hamas mass rape” hoax that was fed to her by Israel lobbyists

[Video, link below]

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@MaxBlumenthal

Here’s our mastercut from the DNC

“That’s not what’s up for discussion,” said SNL’s Keenan Thompson when asked about the Biden-Harris policy of sponsoring Israel’s genocide

To be fair, Keenan was the only DNC speaker I questioned who seemed to have a guilty conscience

@TheGrayzoneNews

WATCH The Grayzone's @MaxBlumenthal & @wyattreed13 challenge Democrat leadership and celebrity performers at #DNC2024 on the Biden-Harris support for Israel's genocide in Gaza

Featuring:

1. Keenan Thompson of SNL
2. Chuck Schumer
3. Rev. Al Sharpton
4. Stevie Wonder
5. Sen. Cory Booker
6. Wolf Blitzer of CNN
7. Kaitlan Collins of CNN
8. Rep. Steny Hoyer
9. Terry McAuliffe

[Video, link below]

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@MaxBlumenthal

NYU has issued new rules declaring the use of the term Zionist a "code word" which could constitute hate speech

Which means NYU has made a protected group out of the apartheidist billionaires who dominate its administration and the genocidal military that occupies Palestine

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[Headline] NYU issues hate speech guidelines discouraging students from targeting 'Zionists'

[Sub-Headline] Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activists claim targeting Zionists isn't antisemitic because not all Jews identify as Zionists; new policy shows school disagrees, given that most Jews do

By ANDREW LAPIN | Today, 5:43 am

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New York Jewish Week via JTA – Students and faculty who discriminate against or harass "Zionists" may be violating New York University's hate speech policies, according to the school's updated guidelines for the fall semester.

In July, Meta banned the use of “Zionist” as a cover for attacks on Jews or Israelis on its platforms. Now, NYU, which like many universities became embroiled in pro-Palestinian unrest during the last school year year, appears to be the first college to take a stance on the term's use.

"Using code words, like ‘Zionist,' does not eliminate the possibility that your speech violates the NDAH [Nondiscrimination and Anti-Harassment] Policy," read NYU's new student community standards, which it published on Thursday.

Article: https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyu-issues-hate-speech-guidelines-discouraging-students-from-targeting-zionists/

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1827433842480996506

@MaxBlumenthal

When you fabricate key parts of your harrowing life story for fame and marry a millionaire investment banker, there’s no limit to what you can become in America

@YeonmiParkNK

I am a survivor of a Socialist system in North Korea, and I am voting for @realDonaldTrump this November 🇺🇸

#MAGA24

[3 images of Yeonmi]

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@MaxBlumenthal

Here’s one to grow on

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[Meaning of antisemitism in English]

[Antisemitism]

[noun] [(also anti-Semitism, anti-semitism)]

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[When you say that IDF soldiers are not allowed to gang rape Palestinian detainees]

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FYI:

TRT is a Turkish public broadcast service.

US Democratic Representative Cori Bush has lost her Missouri primary to Wesley Bell, a challenger funded by America's most influential pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. She's the third Congress member - who's been critical of Israel's war in Gaza - to be unseated by a candidate backed by pro-Israel groups. Max Blumenthal, author and the editor-in-chief of the news website Greyzone, explains how powerful this lobby group is in the US.

#AIPAC #Gaza #Israel

Independent news and investigative journalism on politics and empire.

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the latest stage of the Kamala coup, including her brutal hippy punching of anti-genocide protesters, and cover the new wave of pro-rape protests in Israel, as well as the latest from Gaza and the looming retaliation by Iran and Hezbollah.

@MaxBlumenthal

Apartheid Israel has spent the past several days bombing schools in Gaza, burning scores of children alive

Now, the US and UK mobilizing their militaries to defend the ethnosupremacist state responsible for the modern Holocaust

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@MaxBlumenthal

*are mobilizing

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1820236079233896687

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the countdown to another Iranian counterattack following Israel's brazen assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and insurrectionist riots inside Israel. Anya Parampil joins to discuss the latest from Venezuela, where Washington has officially endorsed regime change and accused President Nicolas Maduro of rigging an election.

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Apartheid Israel eliminates another eyewitness to its Gaza Holocaust with full support from the Biden-Harris-Blinken cartel

@moawady

Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity.

“Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of men who are missing their loved ones never fade from my hearing.

I can no longer bear the sound of children’s voices from beneath the rubble, nor can I forget the energy and power that reverberates at every moment, turning into a nightmare. It is no longer easy for me to stand before the rows of coffins, which are locked and extended, or to see the dead people more than the living who are fighting death beneath their homes, not finding a way out to safety and survival.

I am tired, my friend…”

Ismail Al-Ghoul

Al Jazeera Correspondent in Gaza

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[Image of Ismail Al-Ghoul with a blue press vest and helmet, holding an Al Jazeera microphone]

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818673398618226738

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Only in the Middle East's "only democracy" can a debate take place over whether it is legitimate to "insert a stick in a person's rectum"

@AdameMedia

MK Ahmad Tibi (TA'AL): To insert a stick in a person's rectum, is that legitimate?

MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud): Yes! If he is a Nukhba everything is legitimate to do him!

This is a scum society from top to bottom. Boycott anyone who supports them.

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Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1818159418254430325

The Grayzone’s publication of an embarrassing phone call with a National Endowment for Democracy VP triggered an institution-wide meltdown at the US government’s regime change laboratory. Following the call, the group’s founding president privately admitted the “fiasco” exposed major “problems beneath the polished surface.”

Read a collection of the NED files exclusively obtained by The Grayzone here.

Link: https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NED-Master-Files.pdf

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Everyone from Netanyahu's son, Yair, to Israel's Economy Minister Nir Barkat, to Justice Minister Yariv Levin, has chimed in to defend the right of soldiers to rape Palestinian prisoners. What was intended as a legal charade to demonstrate to the ICC that Israel could hold its soldiers accountable for crimes – in this case, the gang rape of a prisoner at the Sde Teiman concentration camp – has backfired and exposed the psychological sickness emanating from the heart of Jewish Israeli society.

The sadistic torture that has taken place at Sde Teiman and other Israeli dungeons was undeniably fueled by the state-led propaganda hoax accusing Hamas of "systemic sexual violence" on October 7. Legacy Western outlets like the NY Times, BBC, The Guardian, along with the voice of Israel's "enlightened public," Haaretz, legitimized the hoax, and have refused to retract or even correct reports that were comprehensively debunked. Thus, to the common Jewish Israeli, Hamas militants not only violated hundreds of women before butchering them for pleasure, they cruelly emasculated the Israeli male who supposedly conquered the land.

Behind the walls of Sde Teiman, the shadowy goon squad known as Force 100 has been tasked with restoring Zionist machismo by revenge-raping defenseless Palestinian men kidnapped from Gaza. All prisoners are "terrorists" in their minds, therefore anything is permissible. As Hanoch Milwidsky, a member of Knesset from the ruling Likud Party stated openly in a parliamentary debate, "If he is a [Hamas] Nukhba member, everything is legitimate to do him!"

The same media outlets that propagated the Hamas "mass rape" hoax are predictably downplaying the documented gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner. Haaretz has referred to the rape in a front page headline as mere "abuse." Currently, there is nothing on the NY Times front page about the incident, while the Washington Post refers cryptically to "detainee abuse" in its coverage, which is buried at the bottom of its website. Prominent liberal Zionists, meanwhile, are pronouncing Israel's "democracy" and its international image as the ultimate victims of the crisis, and not the Palestinians who have endured rape and torture at the hands of the occupation's enforcers.

The war in Gaza suffocated the national protests against Netanyahu's judicial reform plans, seemingly breathing new life into the PM's career. But now, after nine months of blood-letting, the war is setting the stage for an existential civil meltdown if and when Netanyahu agrees to a ceasefire without scoring the "total victory" he's promised. If that day comes, let it be recorded that the turning point was a violent Zionist riot in support of the right to rape Palestinian men.

@Resist_05

Israel could be the first country in history to start a civil war over the right of its military to rape prisoners…

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Eyepatch McCain hoists the Stars and Stripes after bowing before a foreign apartheid leader and pledging billions to his genocidal militias

@DanCrenshawTX

We raised the flags back up🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Earlier today, terrorist sympathizers tore down the American flags at Union Station, burned them, and raised the Palestinian flag in its place. After votes tonight, a group of members, including many veterans and the Speaker of the House, took our flag back and raised it.

Took a while to get it done because the Hamas supporters broke the connections, but DC police helped us out and got us zip ties.

Source: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1816350602642776079