In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.It should go without saying that Charlie Kirk was not assassinated by Israel‘s Mossad foreign intelligence service. Unfortunately, some commentators continue to push this narrative. They do so in pursuit of attention, listeners, and revenue.Two notable purveyors of salacious deception are Candace Owens and Ian Carroll. When Owens isn’t claiming that the main problem with Adolf Hitler was that he was a globalist, making herself a puppet for Vladimir Putin, or accusing the French president’s wife of being a man, she is inventing other mad conspiracy theories. A devoted antisemite, one of Owens’s favorite theories is that Israel was involved in the September 2025 assassination of Kirk.
CHINA JUST FIRED A NUCLEAR WARNING SHOT ACROSS THE PACIFICOwens advanced that claim last Wednesday by posting a video of conservative commentator Ben Shapiro saying that Kirk’s security detail had called his own detail shortly after Kirk was shot — presumably in case a coordinated attack on conservative commentators was underway. Referencing a speech Shapiro made shortly after the assassination, Owens then claimed, “I clocked that Ben was TOO invested in this. … Ben Shapiro is Satanic.”Owens was only getting started. In another X post last Thursday, she added that “nobody in the world outside of Zionists believe Tyler Robinson murdered Charlie Kirk and that Israel’s hands are clean.”Reposting Owens’s first post, Carroll added, “What??? Ben screwed up reeeall good by making this claim. [Kirk’s] security team called Ben Shapiro’s IDF security team before they called anyone else….? Before they’d even gotten [Kirk] to the hospital? When they should have been stopping bleeding and protecting the spine.” Showing his lack of understanding of firearms and ballistics, Carroll subsequently posted spurious theories questioning whether Tyler Robinson was the shooter.This is astonishingly absurd stuff. To borrow a great line from the movie Lethal Weapon, Owens and Carroll “are out there like f***in’ Pluto!” Fortunately, suggestions of Israeli involvement in Kirk’s murder are also easily repudiated in three ways.First off, the evidence (or utter lack thereof)
