Charlie’s murder is not just a personal tragedy. It’s a wound in society. But the painful truth is that the murder began a long time ago – not with the bullet, but with the slander. For years, the media has been painting him as an enemy. For years, academia has been explaining that he’s dangerous. For years, social media has been trying to remove him from our feeds.
And when you label someone a “threat to democracy” enough times – don’t be surprised if someone takes it a step further.

Anyone who thinks this is an American story is greatly mistaken. Here in Israel, too, there are those who mark opinions as “dangerous,” there are those who make sure to suspend accounts, cancel events, and paint people as monsters. Anyone who thinks it ends there should remember that when someone is marked as an enemy of the people, there will always be someone who will take the law into their own hands.

Charlie Kirk was no longer a political commentator. He was a culture warrior. He understood something that many conservative politicians miss to this day: that the real struggle takes place not in parliament, but in the classroom. Not in the Knesset or in Congress – but on the campus pavements and the screens of TikTok. He knew that without returning public discourse to a healthy center – we can forget about any political reform.