What exact quote did Charlie Kirk say about Israel and on what date?
Executive summary
Charlie Kirk made several public statements about Israel and Jewish influence; the clearest verbatim quotes documented in the provided reporting include a long remark accusing Hamas of weaponizing famine narratives and at least two explicit lines about “Jewish” funding of cultural movements — but the exact dates for some of those verbatim lines are not provided in the sources supplied, which only give publication dates and timeframes (e.g., “fall 2023”) [1] [2] [3]. The record compiled by multiple outlets shows both pro‑Israel advocacy and rhetoric critics call antisemitic, yet the sources do not uniformly attach calendar dates to every quoted sentence [4] [5] [6].
1. The most widely circulated quotes and how they read
One of the widely reported verbatim passages quotes Kirk arguing that “this is the only way that Hamas can quote unquote survive the war is through a narrative war where they win sentimentality in the West. So they are willing to have their people starve and they’re willing to invoked famine so that they can win points in the West and then blame it on Israel. These are the very same people that did this on October 7th against the innocent Israelis on October seventh. Why wouldn’t they also do it to their own people?” — that passage appears in Newsweek’s roundup of Kirk’s remarks [1]. Another repeatedly documented line attributed to Kirk — rendered in multiple fact-checks and reporting — is: “Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years. Stop supporting causes that hate you,” which FactCheck.org and Snopes identify in transcripts and clips from Kirk’s podcast appearances following the October 7, 2023 attacks [3] [2].
2. What the reporting says about when those words were spoken
The sources establish timeframes rather than precise calendar days for many of the quotes: outlets report Kirk made the “Jews have been some of the largest funders…” remarks on episodes of his podcast in fall 2023, in the weeks after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack [2] [3]. Newsweek published a selection of Kirk’s Israel‑related remarks on September 19, 2025, but that article compiles statements he made over an interval and does not date the specific quote about Hamas and famine within the piece [1]. Other outlets likewise place Kirk’s pro‑Israel and critical comments across 2023–2025 without attaching a single originating date for every sentence quoted [7] [4].
3. Where the reporting provides exact wording versus paraphrase
FactCheck.org and Snopes reviewed audio/video clips and provide near‑verbatim transcriptions for the “Jews have been some of the largest funders…” passage, while noting some viral social posts paraphrased or condensed his language and that the precise phrase “Jewish money” was more a paraphrase used by others than a word‑for‑word quote in every clip [3] [2]. Newsweek prints full quoted paragraphs (for example the Hamas/famine passage) as part of its catalogue of Kirk’s comments, indicating the outlets had access to recordings or written material, but those pieces do not always include the originating broadcast or event date for each quote [1].
4. Context, contention and how different sources frame those lines
Reporting shows two competing frames: some outlets and commentators emphasize Kirk’s staunch, repeated public defense of Israel and praise from Israeli officials (including posthumous honors noted by AP and support from Netanyahu’s office), while others highlight critics who say his language trafficked in antisemitic tropes [6] [4] [5]. FactCheck and Snopes both interrogate viral graphics and paraphrases, confirming the substance of the fundraising/funding claims in Kirk’s spoken words while cautioning that some social media captions simplified or rephrased his lines [3] [2]. The Times of Israel pieces stress Kirk’s long pro‑Israel record and his religious framing of support, complicating a simple “pro‑Israel = not antisemitic” narrative [4].
5. Bottom line on the direct question: exact quote and date
The supplied reporting documents verbatim quotes — notably the Hamas/famine passage (as printed by Newsweek) and the “Jews have been some of the largest funders…” line (as transcribed by FactCheck.org and Snopes) — but does not provide a single, consistent calendar date tied to each quoted sentence in the sources given; the funding comment is placed in fall 2023 in the post‑October 7 period, and the Newsweek compilation containing the Hamas/famine paragraph was published September 19, 2025 [3] [2] [1]. Therefore, the exact quoted words are available in these sources, but precise original speaking dates for every quote are not specified in the supplied reporting [1] [2] [3].