Overview

• At State Farm Stadium, Carlson likened Kirk to Jesus and said, “Why don’t we just kill him,” then laughed, in a passage critics called antisemitic.
• The Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish figures said his description echoed the deicide myth, with former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman calling it inappropriate.
• Some conservative allies praised Carlson, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, highlighting a split response across right-leaning circles.
• Far-right influencers such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes, along with Quds News Network, boosted interpretations suggesting Israeli or Jewish culpability in the killing.
• Officials have not identified a motive in Kirk’s Sept. 10 assassination, though charging documents cite a text from the suspect saying he had “had enough of his hate.”