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Turning Point USA’s Conspiratorial Turn

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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 13, 2019.

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Officers of Turning Point USA, the national nonprofit organization that engages in conservative activism on college campuses, have taken positions on the Hamas attack on Israel that are, to put it lightly, strange.

Its founder, Charlie Kirk, intimated on a podcast last week that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed Hamas to massacre Israeli civilians to shore up political capital after the domestic protests against his judicial-reform push.

Zach Kessel

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Zach Kessel

Zach Kessel was a William F. Buckley Jr. Fellow in Political Journalism and a recent graduate of Northwestern University.

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