Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed wild conspiracy theories that his government was involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination — floating the idea that the lies could be Qatari-funded. “Somebody has fabricated a monstrous big lie — that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder,” he said in a social media video posted Wednesday morning Israeli time. “This is insane, it is false, it is outrageous. Netanyahu said Kirk loved Israel and the Jewish people, and had sent a supportive letter to the Israeli leader recently before his death. “Now, if Charlie disagreed with a policy of mine or a decision here and there, not only did I not mind, I welcomed it,” Netanyahu said. READ MORE

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The best we can say for the new Tucker is that he is not as whacked-out as Candace Owens. Candace has become the poster woman for something we might call ICI or “Internet-Caused Insanity,” the lust for more and more online notoriety until your brains explode. Every day it’s something new. Brigitte Macron is a man. Stalin is Jewish. Now it’s the Jews who killed or coerced Charlie (hard to tell with Candace who appears to be dodging another defamation suit in her phrasing—one’s enough).

TABLET MAG Op Nation: Why Tucker Carlson became America’s conspiracist-in-chief The similarities between Obama’s politics and Tucker Carlson’s hardly stop at America’s shores. Both men are suspicious of U.S. ties to Israel, and seek to position the U.S. as sympathetic to Muslim terrorists who kill Americans. Both men feel entirely comfortable doing business with tyrants like Vladimir Putin and with Holocaust-denying theocracies like Iran. Both men share a common dislike for Winston Churchill, whose bust was removed from the White House under Obama, and whom Carlson has recently painted as the chief villain of World War II. Both men use polite euphemisms like “Likudnik” and “Zionist” to license overt antisemitism among their followers.