Washington, DC – A few minutes after the news broke out that the right -wing American influencer Charlie Kirk was shot down, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared a social media position expressing his sympathy.
While Kirk was declared dead on Wednesday, Netanyahu and other Israeli officials rushed to praise the 31 -year -old activist and underline his support for Israel.
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“A friend at the heart of the Lion of Israel, he fought the lies and held great to Judeo-Christian civilization,” wrote the Israeli Prime Minister on X. “I told him only two weeks ago and I invited him to Israel. Unfortunately, this visit will not take place.”
This push, to portray Kirk as a fallen champion of Israel as much as from the American conservative movement, comes from many influential right commentators have been increasingly critical of the unconditional support of Washington for his ally of the Middle East.
The Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Saar called Kirk an “incredible friend” of Israel.
“Charlie represented the Judeo-Christian values which unite Israel and America,” he said in an article on social networks. “Above all, he was a fearless warrior for truth and freedom. He was murdered for this.”
No suspects were detained for the murder of Kirk, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, and the motivations behind the murder remain vague.
The Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir paid tribute to Kirk on Wednesday, sharing a photo of the right-wing activist with an Israeli flag outside the Ibrahimi mosque, one of the most sacred sites in Islam, in occupied West Bank.
“The collusion between the world left and radical Islam is the greatest danger to humanity today,” said Ben-Gvir.
“Charlie Kirk saw the danger and warned of this. But the contemptible murderer’s balls struck him.”
In some of his latest public appearances, Kirk – who regularly struck Islam and Muslims – has promoted the theory of unfounded conspiracy that Islam and the political left work together to undermine the United States and Europe.
“Islam is the sword that the left uses to split the throat of America,” he wrote in an article on social networks on Tuesday, one day before it was killed.
Several Israeli politicians have underlined Kirk’s bonds with Israel while welcoming his opinions.
For example, the former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz described Kirk as a “voracious defender of Judeo-Christian values, America and the State of Israel”.
The term “Judeo-Christian values” calls on traditional American conservatives, but criticisms say that it aims to exclude Muslims and other religious groups from Western societies.
They also argue that it is anhistoric, given the hostility and anti -Semitism that the Jewish communities have been confronted in Christian societies in Europe over the past centuries.
But the “Judeo-Christian values” were a recurring theme in Israeli praise for Kirk.
The Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, joined other Israeli officials by calling Kirk “true friend of Israel”.
The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragic and devastating blow.
Charlie was a true friend of Israel, but beyond that, he was a man who engaged in a real dialogue with his opponents as a means of promoting his values.
A dialogue in which he defended the morality and the principles he … pic.twitter.com/ta4wncqr9g
– Bezalel Smutrich (@Bezalelsm) September 11, 2025
Kirk Israel Views
Kirk was indeed a fervent supporter of Israel – but not without occasional reluctance.
Last month, he denied the well -documented famine imposed by Israeli in Gaza, echoing the lies of Israeli officials that the United Nations not excluded from the territory is a “pure visual war”.
However, despite his years of pro-Israeli advocacy, he was not immune to the ideas of the growing “America First” movement which questioned the advantages of the devotion of Washington to his ally of the Middle East.
While Israeli leaders put pressure on Trump to bomb Iran in June, Kirk warned that the “Make America Great Again” base (Maga) was opposed to war.
“I can tell you right now, our Maga base does not want a war at all,” said Kirk on his podcast. “They don’t want involvement. They do not want the United States to be engaged in this area. ”
Kirk supported Trump’s repression against the plea of the Palestinian rights campus, including efforts to expel the student from the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, who, according to the militants, violated the rights to freedom of expression.
However, he sometimes spoke out against overrun by pro-Israeli defenders to censor the country’s opponents.
In May, he expressed his opposition to a law proposed to penalize the boycott Israel.
“In America, you are allowed to have different opinions. You are allowed to disagree and protest,” Kirk wrote on X at that time.
“We have enabled far too many people who hate America who move here from abroad, but the right to speak freely is the birth right of all Americans.”
In July, he welcomed a panel of young skeptical conservatives about the American-Israeli alliance and seemed to express his frustration in the face of anti-Semitism against any criticism of Israel.
“Some people have told me that if I criticize the Aipac, I am an anti -Semitic,” said Kirk, referring to the American public affairs committee of Israel.
