Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday forcefully rejected conspiracy theories linking Israel to the murder of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling them �a monstrous big lie.�

�Josef Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, said that the bigger the lie, the faster it will spread. Well somebody has fabricated a monstrous big lie, that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk�s horrific murder,� Netanyahu said in a video statement. �This is insane. It is false. It is outrageous.�

Netanyahu praised Kirk as �a once-in-a-century talent� who, in his words, defended freedom, America and �our common Judeo-Christian civilization.� The prime minister cited a letter Kirk had sent him months earlier, in which the activist wrote: �One of my greatest joys as a Christian is advocating for Israel and forming alliances with Jews to protect Judeo-Christian civilization.�

Kirk, Netanyahu said, had urged him to make Israel�s case directly to the American people, warning of �support for Israel slipping away.� The prime minister recalled inviting Kirk to return to Israel shortly before his death. �Sadly that won�t happen,� Netanyahu said, before condemning what he described as rumors spread �perhaps out of obsession, perhaps with Qatari funding.�

�What I do know is this: Charlie Kirk was a great man and a great man deserves honor, not lies,� Netanyahu said.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who reposted Netanyahu�s video on X, added his own comment: �It�s painful to see people back in the U.S. attempt to get clicks & make $$ by making up outrageous lies while exploiting the death of Charlie Kirk whose impact & character the propagandists will never have,� Huckabee wrote. �@IsraeliPM sets the record straight.�

Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10 while responding to a question about mass shootings, in what prosecutors have described as a targeted political assassination. Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged with aggravated murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.

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