Katie Halper's Take on Kirk's Break From Israel Allies

Showing 1 Katie Halper video from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Katie Halper co-hosts the Due Dissidence podcast, where she and her co-host have pushed back against the official account of Charlie Kirk's assassination less through the kind of forensic ballistics claims common elsewhere and more through political context: tracing his documented falling out with prominent pro-Israel donors like Bill Ackman, his declined invitation from Netanyahu, and his decision to platform Israel-critical guests like Tucker Carlson and Dave Smith in the final stretch of his life. Halper has been careful to note she isn't endorsing every claim Candace Owens has made while still finding the underlying tension between Kirk and his pro-Israel donor base worth taking seriously on its own terms. She made a separate and more pointed argument alongside Briahna Joy-Gray about who America extends grief to and who it doesn't, pointing out that writers like Ezra Klein described seeing themselves in Kirk after his death while the same empathy rarely extends to Palestinians or to George Floyd, and using a personal story from law school to argue that much of Kirk's rhetoric would be recognized as bigoted immediately if the group being discussed were swapped from Black Americans to a different minority.