Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday addressed widespread internet conspiracy theories that Israel was behind the deadly shooting of pro-Israel conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, telling a US outlet that the accusation was “insane.”

Allegations spread on X in the hours after the shooting in Utah on Wednesday, fueled by past allegations of antisemitism against Kirk, his recent comments tying Mossad to the Jeffrey Epstein case, and the rapid response to his death by Israeli politicians.

“That’s insane,” Netanyahu told Newsmax host Greta Van Susteren, adding sarcastically, “Israel also changes the orbit of the moon, Israel pushes the sun.”

“They have no limits. When you hate Jews, when you hate the Jewish state, you’re willing to say anything and promote all these absurd, absurd rumors,” he said.

‘And by the way, they’re willing to kill us all the time. Over the centuries, especially in the horrific Middle Ages, the worst things were said about Jews that you could possibly believe. We were poisoning the wells, we were drinking the blood of Christian children.’

“That continued, actually, up to the Holocaust. The Nazis said the same thing. You know, we’re carrying vermin, we’re spreading disease. And people believed it. And every time they........

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