> When Charlie Kirk was assassinated last month it took erstwhile > friends of his a matter of days to start speculating that the Jews > or Israel killed him. These podcasters and others dishonored his > memory by claiming that the person caught by the FBI for carrying > out the shooting could not have done it, or could not have acted > alone. Soon a full-on twenty-first-century stampede was in > operation. When the Israeli prime minister issued a video saying > that of course Israel had nothing to do with the murder of one of > its most prominent American conservative supporters, those who > spread the libel doubled down. “I never have to admit not to have > killed someone I haven’t killed,” they trilled. Because of course if > an Israeli prime minister did not make a statement on this then the > Jews could be accused, and if he did deny it then the Jews could be > accused.