I was hesitating to share this article in its entirety, nor does it take away my absolute admiration for Charlie Kirk in terms of spearheading Conservatism among our youth, especially. In my generation, it was Andrew Breitbart (who was also murdered) who was a force, Ben Shapiro (before he turned RINO and is now back, riding the coattails of unwavering Patriots), and Glenn Beck. But all were singular voices, impressive enough, but none turned their Conservatism into an actual national movement, and one that as we have seen, reached across generations. Not many people have reach from 13 year olds to 80-year-olds.
Charlie Kirk’s meteoric rise was a backlash against the left’s villainization of White culture, which is the dominant culture of America, of Christianity (America is a Christian nation), and most consequential, demonizing and humiliating young men by hammering the lie that ‘toxic masculinity’ is the central issue in this country. Americans noticed that the rights of criminals were elevated above law-abiding citizens, and that the Democrat party via the FBI and IRS targeted individuals and businesses who were vocal Republicans. ANTIFA emerged as the new KKK of the Democrat party (the Democrat party used the KKK in the 1920s and 1930s to intimidate both Black Americans and to be used as a weapon when needed against White Republicans.
Prior to the emergence of MAGA (Patriot party), the Republican party for decades was a weak shell of itself which allowed the Democrats to domineer and nearly destroy the U.S., and no, the Democrat party did not ‘suddenly’ become Socialist nor are there ‘leftists’ – that party has been racist, antisemitic, and Socialist since FDR. A young Charlie Kirk attended the CPAC conference after stale Mitt Romney’s expected loss in 2012 and vowed to be a change agent for the Conservative movement.
And a change agent he was – he mobilized at first Gen Z, especially the young men, spoke openly about the importance of Christianity as the bedrock of this nation, warned against the dangers of Socialism, and despite the left’s baseless claims of Charlie being racist against Black people, helped promote Black Conservatives and propelled the launch of the Blexit movement. Nor were any of those actions delivered from an isolated pulpit, but through public conversations and debates. Charlie and TPUSA allowed both high school and college Conservatives students to feel seen, something the left suppressed. To say Charlie Kirk helped change the political landscape is an understatement.
However, I am seeing too many Jews blanket post how pro-Israel Charlie was, and for years he was indeed. He was not that pro-Israel as of late – many have clearly not viewed those podcast videos where he was questioning ‘aid’ for Israel, was asking Ben Shapiro if Israel is ‘ethnically cleansing’ the Arab occupiers and was complaining why Israelis have more freedom to criticize Israel than he does. Lately, he was becoming more influenced by Tucker and the self-hating Jew, Dave Smith. In Charlie’s last conference, he featured Tucker Qatarlson, who railed against AIPAC with cheers from the audience. I too hate AIPAC but for very different reasons. I also know AIPAC is not a lobbying arm of Israel, but an American PAC which often works against Israel’s best interests. And, dangerously, Charlie was vehemently against the bombing of Iran.
I still respected him for his non-Israel work and it was not his job to ‘promote’ or ‘defend’ Israel. But this is why we as Jews should never ever look to non-Jews for ‘help.’ They’ll never get it.
Same reason why Douglas Murray does more damage than good, who uses antisemitic terminology which only upholds the lies that justify to Jew haters why Israel ought to be hated and why Jews in Israel being murdered is ‘deserved.’
Leave Zionism to Jews and only those Jews who do not aid in the antisemitic lies.
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For 20 years, I was an anti-Israel Jew, not due to the media, but largely due to the Jewish organizations I was part of, who would misinform that Israel was ‘founded’ in 1948, that Herzl had anything to do with it, or even more laughable, the UN. Antisemitic terms such as ‘Palestinians’ to mean the Arab occupiers, and not the indigenous Jews in Israel, who were called Palestinians from 136 AD – 1948, West Bank, settlers, settlements, Green Line, and East Jerusalem. Other lies included that all Jews were exiled after 136 AD. Or that Jews came to Israel per a Biblical story and not invoking actual history, that Jews literally emerged from Semitic tribes in Judea & Samaria 4,000 years ago.
None mentioned that Gaza was Judean land since 145 BC, and to this day, legally, per international law (Article 80) still belongs to Israel. Or that Gaza was an epicenter of Judean life in numerous eras prior to the liberation of Israel, in 1948, by brave Jews after 20 years of fighting the British occupiers. Or that most of the Arab occupiers in Jewish Gaza are not ‘Gazans’ but former Egyptian nationals settled in after 1947/48 and radicalized, or that the other smaller cohort are former Israeli-Arabs who came to Israel originally from 25 different Muslim nations, and who then fled to Gaza, once Egypt stole Gaza, to help Arab armies kill Jews faster in the 1947-1948 War.
In 2014, I became a Zionist, and began to learn actual Judean history along with the history of Israel, as that is interwoven. Social media posting turned into becoming a published op-ed writer on the topics of Israel, antisemitism, and politics. Thousands of people since then have been converted to being pro-Israel solely by my sharing irrefutable facts and history. To date, I have been published over 50 times in both Jewish and non-Jewish publications. And, in 2022, I launched Taking Back the Narrative (www.tbtnisrael.com), a Zionism education company.
All my materials were triple vetted by top Middle Eastern affairs experts, and in the few years of the company being in operation, 7 classes of Israel Explained: Through the Lens of History have been completed, with on average of 100 students per class (worldwide, over Zoom), a newsletter, a Zionism-oriented podcast, The Zionist Corner, and I have been a featured speaker on podcasts, tv segments, and a speaker for both Jewish and non-Jewish groups in person and online.
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I am currently also working on a ‘tear sheet’ on Israel to counter the false ones out there, to spread to colleges and universities for Spring 2026.