On Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu posted an unusual video to X: a preemptive denial that Israel was involved in the murder of Charlie Kirk.

“Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, said that the bigger the lie, the faster it will spread,” the Israeli prime minister said in the video, in English. “Well, somebody’s fabricated a monstrous big lie: that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder.”

Without getting into specifics about the accusations, Netanyahu asserted that the young conservative pundit “loved Israel” and “loved the Jewish people.” Quoting from a letter he said Kirk had sent him a few months prior to his killing, Netanyahu said that advocating for Israel was one of Kirk’s “greatest joys as a Christian,” adding, “He told me, ‘The Holy Land is so impor

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