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Footage from just months before Charlie Kirk’s assassination has resurfaced showing him condemning antisemitic conspiracy theories, calling the theories people like Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes are pedalling “brainrot” and “lunacy”.

In an X (formerly Twitter) video distributed widely before Christmas, Canary Mission—an organisation dedicated to exposing antisemitic conspiracies and Jew hatred—has compiled old footage of Charlie Kirk speaking about what he calls “brainrot” conspiracies about Israel and Jews, interspersed with clips of Candace Owens asserting the very positions Kirk condemned.

The video highlights how Owens’s unfounded conspiracy theories about the Jews and the State of Israel directly contradict the stated positions of Kirk before he was assassinated in September this year.

Canary Mission’s stated aim is to document “individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond”. It “investigates hatred across the entire political spectrum, including the far right, far left and anti-Israel activists.”

In their recent video, which was published on X on 23 December 2025, Charlie Kirk urges people to reject unhealthy conspiratorial rabbit trails on the internet—what he calls “Deep Internet Theories”. While he acknowledges that such theories are “tempting to engage in”, he says they are ultimately “rooted in lunacy”. 

“…it is very tempting to engage in—let’s just say deep internet theories that are constantly have the goalposts changing, that quite honestly are rooted in lunacy and rooted in complete nonsensical type stuff.”

Charlie Kirk on Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories

The comments come from an episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, published in July 2025—a matter of months before Kirk was murdered—where Kirk called out the rise in anti-Jewish rhetoric. He said the phenomenon of deep internet theories are a symptom of “being hyper online”.

Responding to a question by a listener named Bonnie, who highlighted the antisemitic theories her adult son was beginning to believe, Kirk said he hoped the anecdote was “a wakeup call for the audience”.

“I don’t just fight radical leftwing lunacy,” he noted. “At times I have to fight people that have devolved into very dark stuff.”

“One of the major problems is that a lot of these narratives appeal to secret knowledge, otherwise known as Gnosticism. At the core of so much of the Jew hatred and the antisemitism is an appeal of Gnosticism, ‘We have secret knowledge’, and there’s this dark alley that the search for secret knowledge can go.”

Bonnie had asked Kirk to name some of the influencers who peddled antisemitic and pro-Hitler theories online, but Kirk responded, “I do know the names. I’m not going to repeat them because that only makes them and their little irrelevant circle bigger.”

He calls the tendency to blame “an entire group for all of your problems” “sloppy, shallow, reprehensible behavior” and “low IQ”.

Kirk said that he would encourage Bonnie’s son to “more than anything else: read the Bible, scripture—not online influencers, not even the Charlie Kirk Show—scripture, the teachings of Jesus Christ that will point him and set him in the right direction.”

In a statement that he said would make “people very angry”, Kirk argued that “It is fundamentally a liberal attitude to blame other people for your problems. The left blames white men and some people blame the Jews.”

Instead, he urged people to “start taking responsibility for their own actions and don’t blame other people for your problems”

Candace Owens and Antisemitic Deep Internet Theories

In contrast with Kirk’s advice to avoid pointless speculations and online conspiracies, the Canary Mission clip shows Candace Owens spreading a theory that Jews are using “psychology” to “make their religion the religion of the world”. She bases this on the unfounded speculation that Sigmund Freud was a “Kabbalist”—a follower of the ancient Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah.

Other claims that are presented within the video include that the nation of Israel “may have been established by some Frankists”, and that the Jews are using vices including “drugs, prostitution, sex, pornography” to “control us” and to “crush the church”.

In another clip highlighted in the Canary Mission video, Candace Owens favourably cites a quote by Nick Fuentes in which he claims that Jews control the White House. 

Instead of critiquing Fuentes’s claim, Owens proceeds to read an excerpt from The Times of Israel highlighting the number of Jewish people in office under the Biden administration. She then criticises Dr Jordan Peterson for slamming Fuentes as a “psychopathic rat”, suggesting that Paterson is responsible for what she perceives as people’s waning trust in him.

The X video also incorporates Candace Owens’s recent comments on Jewish control of the slave trade, where she urges black people to “wake up” to their history—to understand that “white men” were not responsible for slavery, but that it was the Jews who had enslaved them. She also claims that Jews control publishing and media to keep Christians warring against Christians and Christians warring against Muslims.

“I challenge black Americans to wake up to your true history because your quarrel is not with white men. Wake up to who publishes these books and keeps us warring with one another—Christians versus Christians, Christians versus Muslims. Wake up and learn the true history of slavery, ’cause that wasn’t exactly a white men sport, okay. Jewish people were the ones that were trading us. Jewish people were in control of the slave trade.”

30-Day Woke Right Challenge by Christian Content Creator

Canary Mission’s tweet has elicited various responses, from X users defending Candace Owens by asserting (without evidence) that Charlie Kirk came to reject his principled opposition to “secret knowledge” and would actually support Owens if he was still alive, to others applauding the account for resurfacing the footage.

The video, which has been viewed more than 200,000 times on X, was also picked up by Christian content creator and commentator, Ruslan, who shared it with his YouTube following.

Over the past several months, Ruslan has regularly called out members of the so-called “woke right”—encouraging people to take a break from listening to Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and others like them who exhibit what he called “Israel derangement syndrome”.

This is what he is calling his 30-Day Woke Right Challenge. Like Charlie Kirk, Ruslan is now challenging his followers—specifically, those who also follow the likes of Owens, Fuentes, and Carlson—to stop blaming other people for their problems and to take responsibility for their own lives.

“…for 30 days, do a media fast where you cut out all of the Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes. I want you to cut all of that out. Anything that’s telling you you’re a victim, anything that’s telling you that the system is rigged, that you can’t get—I want you to cut all of that out. And I only want you to consume stuff that is going to build you up and encourage you. […] For 30 days—here’s a challenge—cut out all of the poison, all of the brainrot. Cut all of it out for 30 days and just consume Christian content. […] Do that for 30 days and tell me you don’t freaking feel different. Tell me you don’t view life different.”

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Image courtesy of Charlie Kirk‘s YouTube channel.