Max Blumenthal Exposes High-Level Pressure Campaign From Zionist Donors Against Charlie Kirk
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Max Blumenthal Exposes High-Level Pressure Campaign From Zionist Donors Against Charlie Kirk
Max Blumenthal reveals the intense pressure campaign from Netanyahu's allies and Zionist donors against Charlie Kirk in the final days of his life. Kirk faced daily management from Israeli-funded operatives, had donors pull millions in funding, and was attacked by Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Laura Loomer after resisting talking points fed to him on Zoom calls. While Blumenthal states there's no evidence Israel assassinated Kirk, he documents how Kirk was caught between young conservative activists drifting from Israel-first politics and wealthy donors demanding absolute loyalty to Netanyahu's agenda. The pressure was so intense that Kirk complained publicly, and Netanyahu felt compelled to deny involvement in Kirk's death twice.
Max Blumenthal has conducted some of the most detailed journalism in America examining the circumstances surrounding Charlie Kirk's death and the intense pressure he faced from Zionist donors in his final weeks. While Blumenthal explicitly states he has no evidence that Israel assassinated Kirk, he documents a coordinated political attack that was already underway against the Turning Point USA founder.
The attacks came from multiple directions. Ben Shapiro was attacking him. Mark Levin was attacking him. Laura Loomer, who was making personnel and policy decisions inside the White House, was attacking him. Kirk was complaining about these attacks publicly, revealing the strain he was under from Netanyahu's media cutouts.
Major Donors Withdrawing Support
Blumenthal's investigation revealed that Robert Schillman, identified as the key funder of the Islamophobia industry in the United States and the most anti-Palestinian organizations across the Atlantic, had defunded Kirk. Schillman, who reportedly donated over $6 million to Turning Point USA, cancelled a plaque that was going to be erected honoring him inside TPUSA's office complex in Phoenix.
Tucker Carlson confirmed similar dynamics, stating that Kirk lost a $2 million donation just two days before his death because he had publicly pledged to bring Tucker to the next Turning Point conference in December. The donors who were offended went after Kirk and tormented him, according to Carlson, with a small but very intense group tormenting him until the day he died.
Daily Management by Israeli Operatives
Perhaps most revealing, Blumenthal discovered that Kirk was being managed on a daily level by a right-wing Israeli government-funded rabbi in Israel from the United States named Pesach Wolicki. Kirk had to call into small Zoom sessions with Bill Ackman, Shaun Maguire (a venture capitalist from Sequoia Capital described as fanatically anti-Palestinian), and Josh Hammer, who serves as one of Netanyahu's key voices in the media and is editor at large at Newsweek.
These operatives were explicitly feeding Kirk talking points and telling him what to say because they were afraid of what was going to take place on his upcoming campus tour which began September 10th at Utah Valley University. Wolicki said that Kirk was pushing back on many of the things they were telling him to say, that he had fallen under the influence of the media and of people close to him who were pushing him in another direction, likely referring to people like Tucker Carlson.
The Hamptons Summit Confrontation
One account has Kirk at a summit in the Hamptons holding up his phone and drafting out a text that said Benjamin Netanyahu should resign, asking the group in frustration what would be immoral about sending this text right now. This moment captured Kirk's resistance to the pressure being applied by his Zionist donors.
The donors were so concerned about Kirk's independence that they were trying to make a WhatsApp group with him so he would be fed talking points minute by minute. This is not something you do with someone you feel comfortable with as an Israel advocate. They were not able to get access to him just through personal rapport. It wasn't clear that Kirk particularly liked them. They were just kicking down a lot of money to his organization and holding money over his head.
Kirk's Resistance to Iran War Plans
The pressure on Kirk seemed to coincide with the middle of July when he went on record pleading with Donald Trump not to bomb Iran and not to start a regime change operation with Iran. Implicit in that was the idea that Trump couldn't be misled and steered in this direction by the same neocons that got the United States into disaster foreign policy blunders throughout time.
Why People Believe Israel Was Involved
Blumenthal compared the situation to the plot of the early 1990s book The Firm, which was made into a film starring Tom Cruise, where if you join a firm and try to leave, you will be eliminated. While he has no evidence that Israel eliminated Kirk, the theory developed online for understandable reasons.
Netanyahu is at the helm of what Blumenthal calls a historically unparalleled global assassination apparatus that even weaponizes household communication goods to kill people, referring to pagers. Wikipedia documents thousands of Israeli assassinations broken down by decade, more than any other country. Even compared to the United States, which has only several dozen documented, Israel's list is extensive and recent, ending with assassinations in Doha.
The theory exploded online to the point where Netanyahu has had to come out twice and deny assassinating Kirk. Once he did so of his own volition, not even being asked during an interview, deciding to make a video on his personal channel denying killing Kirk. This is unprecedented—a foreign leader denying killing an American public figure.
Netanyahu's Unique Influence Over America
It could only be Netanyahu because no other foreign leader enjoys that level of influence over not just American politics but over American life itself, over American entertainment, over American finance. Netanyahu is described as the embodiment of Zionist occupied territory, which is why he felt compelled to deny involvement.
Blumenthal's theory is that for once Netanyahu was innocent and he just wanted everyone to know. But the takeaway is that his investigative reporting has given the conservative grassroots, which has been sick of being bossed around by the cutouts of a foreign country that happens to be an occupying genocidal entity, a voice. They are more emboldened to speak out now, and this rebellion in the conservative grassroots is only going to grow.
Why This Matters for Netanyahu
There are two reasons why this is such a problem for Netanyahu and why they are throwing so much money at this particular constituency and demographic in the United States. One is obviously because Trump is president, and in order to influence the president, they need to keep his base on side.
The other reason, which is more of a long-term problem, is that Israel needs white Christian conservative men, who increasingly make up a disproportionate portion of the enlisted military ranks as well as military leadership. They need them to fight their wars. They have to go to war for Israel. They have to go fight Iran. And if the next round of conflict with Iran doesn't go well, Netanyahu wants a ground war with US boots on the ground.
The Closing Window of Opportunity
There is desperation from the Israel-first lobby and the Israel lobby in general because they see their opportunity window closing. In ten years, the demographics are not shifting in their favor. Younger people's sensibilities regarding this issue differ from their parents and grandparents who were more supportive of Israel generally speaking.
Younger people are not buying this whole Israel-first mentality wholesale anymore. The lobby may have a ten-year window to consummate the Greater Israel project—expanding Israel's borders, completely eliminating the Palestinians through ethnic cleansing, and disrupting and destabilizing the Iranian regime, who they view as their top rival.
Regime change in Iran is Netanyahu's endgame, the ultimate goal of Netanyahu and everyone who will come in his wake. This is a significant moment, a turning point in the USA, where not only the traditional bases of opposition to Israeli apartheid and Israeli control are more mobilized than ever, but a rebellion is taking place within the traditional base of pro-Israel support. It's growing and accelerating.
The Battle Within Conservative Ranks
The last bastion of devout, fervent, ardent support for Israel is being diminished on the right. Though it may not seem that way politically with Trump in power as a Israel-first leader, the on-the-ground activists and populist forces are seeing this for what it is: foreign influence over the government.
When you use the tagline and slogan America First, it looks even worse when you defer all political capital to a country you're supporting financially to the tune of $20 billion last year. Previous years saw $4 billion. You're basically being drawn into wars and entangling alliances and inheriting all of the enemies of Israel for no reason whatsoever for the United States.
The taxpayer doesn't benefit from that one bit. Quite to the contrary, it ends up with debt and encourages inflation, with the central bank printing new currency and imposing an invisible tax upon all wealth holdings.
A Small-Scale Civil War in the Conservative Movement
If you follow the conservative movement closely enough, especially at the grassroots level, you can see that a small-scale civil war is playing out over this issue. Whether or not you think Israel had a hand in Kirk's murder, this is a story worth talking about. It's emblematic of the pressures being put upon high-profile influencers on the right.
A young, sharp person like Kirk was heavily influenced by his donors. Weighing the pressures he had from both activists and donors while trying to produce, encourage, and expand his organization was no easy feat. If the pressures on Kirk were this intense in the last few weeks of his life, which Blumenthal's journalism demonstrates they were, you can see how the pressures on elected politicians are that much more fierce.
The influences on the bureaucracy and the president are even stronger. The president was bought off by Miriam Adelson for $100 million, and she got to basically call the shots about who was going to be in his cabinet: Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Waltz—Israel-firsters to the core. That was the biggest litmus test for anyone in Trump's cabinet: How pro-Israel were they? RFK and Tulsi Gabbard were very pro-Israel too.
That's what you get from a Zionist-occupied government where AIPAC and the Israel lobby have such unprecedented control and influence over the government, and you saw that pan out when it comes to the Charlie Kirk story.
