Netanyahu calls conspiracies linking Israel to Charlie Kirk murder a 'monstrous lie'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that claims the Jewish state was involved in the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk were 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,” the premier said in a video message on X that garnered 1.6 million views.

“This is insane.