The Laurent Guyénot
Unz Review

While Chris Martenson has, I believe, shown that Charlie Kirk was shot from a different building at Utah Valley University (the Sorenson Student Center) than the one where Tyler Robinson was allegedly positioned (the Losee Center)—also disproving, in my view, speculations of a fake death, which I wrongly defended in an earlier article—other researchers continue to accumulate evidence that, in the weeks preceding Kirk’s death, his pro-Israel backers were trying to blackmail and threaten him into abandoning his recent criticism of Israel. They feared that Kirk would follow the path of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and draw millions of his young supporters behind him. After inviting Carlson and other conservative critics of Israel (Megyn Kelly and Dave Smith) at his Turning Point USA (TPUSA) Student Action Summit in July, Kirk was thinking of inviting Owens, as well as the outspoken anti-AIPAC representative Marjorie Taylor Green on upcoming platforms. And on September 10, he was launching his nationwide tour of American campuses with apparently no intention of sticking to the pro-genocide talking-points that his Jewish advisors were feeding him. Imagine not just the panic, but the sense of betrayal of those “Jewish donors” who had invested tens of millions of dollars into him and TPUSA.

Here, I recap what I think are the most important established facts. I have borrowed much from the long investigative tweets of former Utah Senate candidate Sam Parker (here, here, here, and here) and I encourage everyone to follow him on X and support his outstanding work.

The cabal

Let’s us first get acquainted with the Jewish cabal that is now the target of much suspicion.

Bill Ackman: American hedge fund manager, worth $9.4 billions, unconditional supporter of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and an important contributor to Turning Point USA for about a year. On August 4 and 5, Ackman hosted a two-day meeting on the Hamptons, Long Island, with Kirk and important executives and financiers of TPUSA. Kirk was strongly reprimanded for giving a platform to Carlson in July, and submitted to what he experienced as threats and blackmail over his recent public critics of Israel’s influence in America. Benjamin Netanyahu invited himself in that meeting by phone.

Josh Hammer: Jewish political commentator, senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, who defines himself as a full-time advocate “for the Jewish people and for the Jewish state of Israel,” and a believer that “Jew-hatred is inherent in the European DNA.” Hammer is also the author of a book claiming that Western civilization was founded by Moses on Mount Sinai.

Hammer “was there the whole time” (his words) during the Hamptons meeting. On the day before Kirk’s public execution, Hammer retweeted approvingly a 12-year-old tweet by Trump mentioning “public execution for all to see.” Three hours after Kirk’s death, he again cryptically tweeted “public execution”.

Rabbi Pesach Wolicki: American-Israeli citizen living in Israel, who presents himself as Charlie Kirk’s regular advisor of Israel issues. The night before Kirk’s assassination, he had a one-hour Zoom conversation with him to practice his pro-Israel talking-points. Josh Hammer was in the conversation. Wolicki later reported that Kirk was “in a combative mood” and “playing the devil’s advocate.”

Robert Shillman: American businessman and political financier, who has invested in several right-wing political activits such Laura Loomer, Tommy Robinson or Brilyn Hollyhand. He was financing TPUSA to the tune of 2 millions annually but, according to the New York Times, Oct 1^st, 2025, “Two days before Mr. Kirk’s death, Mr. Shillman angrily questioned Mr. Kirk for giving a platform to Mr. Carlson and informed him he was withdrawing a $2 million pledge to Turning Point.”

Seth Dillon: CEO of the news satire site The Babylon Bee since 2018, with an estimated net worth of $6 million in 2025. Dillon presents himself as an evangelical Christian but acknowledges his Jewish heritage. He was part of the heated meetings with Kirk and Ackman in the Hamptons.

The chronology

Keeping in mind the profile of these people, we can now summarize the chronology of their relationship with Kirk in the months leading to his assassination.

May 4: As Sam Parker has documented, tensions between Charlie Kirk and his pro-Israel backers did not start in July 2025, but at least two months earlier, when Kirk, with tweets viewed up to 8 million times, opposed the ADL’s call for censorship, and contributed to defeat the bill HR 867 that criminalized private boycotts of Israel.

July 11-13: Kirk hosted Tucker Carlson at his TPUSA Student Action Summit. Carlson stated unequivocally that Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli asset tasked with blackmailing American public personalities. The subject was also debated on stage between Carlson, conservative host Megyn Kelly, and Jewish comedian Dave Smith, all agreeing with Carlson’s position and demanding the release of the Epstein files. The following days, Kirk was bombarded with angry messages from his pro-Israel backers.

August 4-5: Bill Ackman hosted on the Hamptons, Long Island, a meeting with Kirk, TPUSA executives and Jewish donors. According to Max Blumenthal’s important article on the subject:

Zionist billionaire Bill Ackman “hammered” Charlie Kirk … for platforming critics of Israel at TPUSA events. … Ackman, according to multiple sources, had this meeting to basically bully Charlie Kirk into submission. … Charlie Kirk walked away, according to one person, feeling like there was an attempt to blackmail him. … He refused any offers of funding, and also refused the offer to travel to Israel and meet with Netanyahu…

During that meeting, Netanyahu spoke personally to Kirk on the phone, inviting him to Israel and offering him $150 million to bolster TPUSA. Kirk declined.

The next day, August 6: in a live exchange with Megan Kelly, Kirk complained of the “repulsive” ways he was treated, naming Josh Hammer in particular, and stating that, as executive director of TPUSA, “I have less ability… to criticize the Israeli government than actual Israelis do. And that’s really, really weird.”

August 13: Harrison H. Smith of InfoWar tweeted: “I was told by someone close to Charlie Kirk that Charlie thinks Israel will kill him if he turns against them.” This tweet drew little attention until after Kirk’s death, when Smith confirmed it, and Max Blumenthal stated that he had heard the same from another source.

August 27: Kirk invited Marjorie Taylor Green to speak at the next Turning Point’s annual AmericaFest conference, planned for December 2025. Green is known for her opposition to the power of AIPAC in American politics, and her demand that AIPAC be registered as a foreign agent. Kirk had previously addressed the AIPAC question, as in a July-2025 debate with TPUSA chapter leaders (here with Sam Parker’s insightful comments; full video of the debate here).

Sept 8: Kirk interviewed Ben Shapiro, the arch-Zionist Jewish editor of the Daily Wire , on his Charlie Kirk Show (broadcast the next day). He discussed Israel’s bombing of Qatar, quoted approvingly the distrust by some of his friends (Carlson?) of the mainstream narrative on Israel, and stated that he doesn’t like Bibi Netanyahu’s statement: “You can’t be MAGA if you’re anti-Israel”.

Hours after that exchange, Shapiro tells Mark Levin on Fox New: “You can’t be a leader of the right if you think the president is covering up a Mossad rape ring or struck Iran for Israel.”

Sept 9: Around 3:30 to 4 pm ET, Charlie exchanged messages on a WhatsApp group chat with seven other people, including Josh Hammer, Pastor Rob McCoy, and probably Rabbi Wolicki. Kirk was obviously in a combative mood: although punished for having invited Carlson, he was now “thinking of inviting Candace.” “I cannot and will not be bullied like this. Leaving me no choice but to leave the pro Israel cause.” Candace Owens revealed this exchange on Oct 7, and shamed McCoy and Hammer for having lied when denying its existence. She is vindicated by Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of TPUSA (here also). Since Kolvet reported this exchange to the FBI after Kirk’s death, he must have been part of that WhatsApp group and it is certainly him who communicated it to Candace.

Sept 9: Two hours after that exchange, from 6 to 7 pm ET, Kirk had a one-hour Zoom meeting with Rabbi Wolicki, Josh Hammer, Mickey McCoy (Kirk’s chief of staff) and a few others. In an interview he gave on Sept 13 to the New York Post, and in a later video appearance dated Oct 9, Wolicki said he was concerned that many of Kirk’s fans “were turning on Israel” and “there were prominent people … actively working to [get him to] to drop his support for Israel.” Kirk was, according to Wolicki, “in a combative mood” and “playing the role of devil’s advocate,” which, in view of Kirk’s messages the day before, must be understood as Wolicki’s euphemistic presentation of Kirk telling him and Hammer to go to hell.

Sept 9: At 9:05 pm, two hours after his Zoom meeting with Kirk, Josh Hammer retweeted approvingly a 12-year-old tweet by Trump saying: “Should be public execution for all to see—you will end this bullshit fast.” Since the context of Trump’s original tweet is irrelevant, and since Hammer was a key participant in all the communications with Kirk that day (the WhatsApp chat and the Zoom meeting), this tweet can reasonably by interpreted as referring to Kirk’s “public execution” the next day, and therefore indicative of Hammer’s foreknowledge

Sept 10: Kirk is shot dead on the Campus of Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, at 12:20.

Sept 10: Three hours after Kirk’s death, Hammer again cryptically tweeted: “public execution,” echoing his tweet of the day before, suggesting that he was cryptically taking responsibility for Kirk’s assassination.

Hours after Kirk’s death, Netanyahu eulogized Kirk in a X tweet and referred to his phone conversation with Kirk: “I spoke to him only two weeks ago and invited him to Israel. Sadly, that visit will not take place.”

Sept 12: Amid mounting rumors that Israel was behind Kirk’s assassination, Netanyahu booked himself on Newsmax to declare those rumors “insane”

What does “Israel killed Kirk” mean?

From this chronology, a reasonable suspicion emerges that Charlie Kirk was killed by a cabal of individuals who felt they had a right to dictate to him their pro-Israel talking-points and tell him who, in their list of “antisemites”, he was not allowed to invite. Although I had no interest in Kirk before his death, what I have learned since inspires me great respect for a man who, while knowing he might be killed for it, decided to do the right thing anyway—sharing what he truly believed. I have also gained great respect for Candace Owens who understands that Kirk was killed partly because of her influence on him, and who knows she too is risking her life in this fight for truth. She is bringing new elements every day: recently, for example, she exposed the suspicious profile of Utah’s Medical Examiner who was hired about the same time as Josh Hammer entered the life of Kirk, in May 2024.

Who killed Charlie Kirk? Israel had the motive. Kirk may not have been immensely important by himself, but his evolution in the last months of his life was potentially devastating for Israel’s PR. Here is a man who for years had been one of the most influential advocate of Israel on campuses, who could communicate directly with Netanyahu as well as with Trump. Those “Jewish donors” who had supported him with millions of dollars felt they owned him, as a master owns a slave. And now he was telling them to their face that he “wouldn’t be bullied”, and was “leaving the pro-Israel cause”—just as he was about to start a nationwide campus tour. The predictable effect on the conservative youth was enormous. But I imagine it was more out of anger than out of panic that they decided that he deserved a “public execution”. Israel wants Christians like Kirk to believe and repeat that they will be blessed if they support Israel, and cursed if they don’t. Kirk was smart enough to call it BS. They gave him the Kennedy curse.

Israel has the profile of a serial killer and a mass murderer, and the expertise in targeted assassinations, well documented by Ronen Bergman (Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, 2019). Israel has a known capacity to mobilize tens of thousands of sayanim (singular sayan) on U.S. soil, including professional assassins (remember Murder Inc., a department of the Jewish mob). Possibly Derek Maxfield was one of those sayanim. This wealthy American Jew close to the Chabad Lubavitch movement is the owner of the private jet that took off from Provo airport (a 12-minute drive from the crime scene) one hour after the crime, and turned off its radar-tracking system 30 minutes into the flight, only to reappear an hour later heading back to Provo. Utah’s new Medical Examiner Dr. Deirdre Weiss Amaro, hired by DHHS deputy director Dr. Michelle Hoffman in May 2024, could possibly have been a sayan involved in Kirk’s autopsy, or lack of. The search for potential sayanim has just begun, apparently.

Without doubt, therefore, Israel had the means to carry out Kirk’s assassination. As for the opportunity, this is harder to determine, but we must recall that Charlie’s security had been reinforced on that day by the Zionist-owned Shaffer Security Group, who forgot to secure the roofs.

But what do we mean by “Israel”? Israel is not, by essence, a State. The State of Israel is only one external aspect of Israel. Israel is more like a collective organism or a hive mind than a formal structure. Its leadership is a kind of international ethnic mafia or a secret society, but one in which the decisions come not from one center, but from a multitude of centers, sometimes in internal conflict, but nevertheless all connected by the same unshakable loyalty to the same project—the biblical project, considered as God’s mandate. “Israeliness” (to make a distinction with “Jewishness”) comes in many degrees. It is comparable to a gravitational field, with some people revolving far from the center, feeling only slightly concerned by Israel, while others are close to the nuclear core, and will gladly die—or preferably kill—for Israel. Josh Hammer is a fine example of such “hot Israeli Jews”, whose conviction to be doing God’s work is so strong that they can be recklessly in their sense of impunity. Israel is a worldwide network of such people, whose connections are not strictly formal or hierarchical. A small group of deeply loyal Zionist Jews is to Israel like a piece of a hologram to the whole image: it is a small Israel.

When we say “Israel killed Charlie Kirk”, therefore, we do not necessarily mean that the decision came from the head of the State, or even of the Deep State—whatever that may mean. It could have been orchestrated by the small group of pro-Israeli fanatics who took up the responsibility to control Kirk, and who decided, at some point, that their duty was to eliminate him before his turning away from Israel became public and contagious on campuses. They would have to get the green light from somewhere, to be put in touch with a team of experts in assassination (Murder Inc. version 2025), and to be sure that the entire Zionist deep state would cover for them, through its control of the FBI and the mainstream media in particular. Not to mention the need to control Erika Kirk, whose behavior is strange to say the least (see the analyses of her body language during her first speech and during the tribute ceremony).

The plan to kill Kirk was not hatched on September 9, but had been in preparation for two months, possibly more. Baron Coleman has uncovered a pattern of suspicious google searches from Israeli IP addresses in the week around July 20, on the names of persons of interest in the Charlie Kirk shooting, including George Zinn (the decoy man saying “I shot him” seconds after the shooting), Hunter Kozak (the student questioning Kirk about transgender person’s right to own guns at the precise moment of shooting), Medical Examiner Deirdre Amaro, and various surgeons at Timpanogas Regional Hospital where Kirk was taken after being shot. But the final go-ahead would have been given on September 9, after it was agreed that Kirk was irremediably lost to Israel. Hammer retweeting Trump’s “public execution” might have been that go-ahead. But more probably, both of Hammer’s tweets were signatures. Cryptically signing their names into what they believe is the holy history of God’s chosen people (the only history that matters), while maintaining plausible deniability before the immediate justice of the Goyim, is something that can also be found in the “public execution” of JFK (read my article on the Umbrella Man).

The effort to solve the murder of Charlie Kirk has now evolved into a showdown between Candace Owens and Josh Hammer. On October 9, on his Newsweek YouTube channel, Hammer expressed his surprise at finding himself “at the epicenter of an insane Candace Owens neo-nazi conspiracy theory.” Hammer defended himself by insisting on how close he was to Kirk: “I was the Jew in Charlie Kirk’s vision of a Jewish-Christian alliance to save the West.” Hammer claims that, in his final message on their WhatsApp group after their September 9 Zoom meeting, Charlie was “thanking us so much for preparing him to face the inevitable incoming tsunami of Jew-hate … He was deeply thankful for what we had discussed on that hour.” Unfortunately, Hammer does not provide the screenshot proving his words.

Hammer then goes on to explain that when, two hours after talking with Kirk on September 9, he retweeted an old tweet by Donald Trump mentioning “public execution for all to see”, he was not foreshadowing Kirk’s assassination: he was, Hammer claims, referring to what should be done to the murderer of Iryna Zarutska, killed on August 22, 2025, although that context is absent from his tweet.

But what about his second cryptic “public execution” tweet posted three hours after the death of his “friend” Charlie Kirk, that Sam Parker has brought to the attention of the public? We’re all looking forward to his explanation about it.

What about Trump?

Considering that Kirk considered himself a friend of Trump, whom he has supported wholeheartedly since 2016, many people have been disturbed by Trump’s behavior after Kirk’s assassination, when he was seen enjoying himself at a baseball game the day after Kirk’s assassination, or changing the subject when presented with condolences two days later, or posting an IA-generated photo of him and Charlie on the background of both the American and Israeli flags, with a cryptic caption.

More importantly, the FBI’s blatantly fraudulent investigation proves that Trump’s administration is dedicated to cover-up the real perpetrators of this assassination. In his Sept-12 Greyzone article, Max Blumenthal quotes friends of Kirk who also had access to Trump, to the effect that:

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.

That conversation may have been a breaking point in Kirk’s relationship to Trump. I don’t think, however, that Trump was involved in the assassination, or that he had foreknowledge of it. Rather, Trump is warranting Israel’s impunity, as he has been doing for every other Israeli crime since he entered the White House in January of this year.

Because Americans are now massively noticing that Trump is doing systematically Netanyahu’s bidding and is regularly visited by him in the White House (the first head of state to do so in February 2025, and every couple of months since), Netanyahu had to address rumors that he is controlling Trump and state publicly: “Trump is the most independent leader I’ve ever seen. The idea that I control Trump is a lie.” On another occasion, Netanyahu praised Trump as “the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House” (in a press conference with Marco Rubio, September 15).

Not just Netanyahu, but most Israelis love Trump, according to Trump’s arch-Zionist ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who said several times that criticizing Israel in his presence is like criticizing his wife: “If Donald Trump were on the ballot in Israel,” Huckabee said, “he would get 95% of the vote!” Remember when, in May 2018, commenting on Trump’s decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, Netanyahu declared that Trump was the equivalent of Persian emperor Cyrus 2500 years ago (hailed as God’s anointed in Isaiah 45:1-5). Well, here we go again: as Trump was about to land in Israel this October 13, billboards appeared in Tel Aviv hailing him as the resurrection of Cyrus the Great:

Perhaps the most telling sign of the true nature of the relationship between Netanyahu and Trump came on February 6, 2025, when Netanyahu offered Trump a golden pager, as a trophy or souvenir of Israel’s pager attack on Hezbollah members in Lebanon, September 23, 2024—a repellant form of International terrorism contrary to every international law. Trump accepted the gift, commented that “It was a brilliant operation,” and dedicated a photograph of himself with the inscription “Bibi, a great leader.”

There is little doubt that Trump (who is now considering pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell) is heavily compromised by his past relationship with Mossad agent Jeffrey Epstein (below a photo of his book dedicated to Epstein).