Transcript [00:00] Somebody shoots Charlie Kirk and within [00:02] a day millions of people know who did [00:05] it. No evidence, no investigation, just [00:07] a people and a country and there's a [00:10] reason that happens. And then there's [00:12] the reason it always happens to the same [00:13] country. Start with the honest part. [00:16] Psychologists call it proportionality [00:18] bias. We expect big events to have big [00:21] causes. A president is murdered and the [00:23] man who did it is a nobody with a [00:25] mail-in rifle. [00:27] That feels wrong, like the math doesn't [00:29] balance. So we go looking for a cause as [00:32] big as the event. That instinct isn't [00:35] stupid and it isn't evil. It's just how [00:37] people are built. But it's also the door [00:40] everything else walks through. And [00:42] here's what came through this time. [00:43] >> But we all kind of think Israel killed [00:45] Charlie Kirk. Just based on the actions [00:48] and the mood of the Israeli government [00:51] leaders, Bibi Netanyahu, and their [00:54] plethora of Zionist supporters [00:56] throughout the United States. They're [00:57] obsessed with lying about the Charlie [00:59] Kirk case. They just have to lie about [01:01] the Charlie Kirk case. They have to try [01:02] to debunk everything immediately. It's [01:05] giving us the vibe that they could be [01:07] guilty. [01:08] >> That's the entire case. Not a document, [01:10] not a leak, not a source, a mood. And [01:13] the denial counts as evidence, too, [01:15] which makes it the one accusation you [01:18] can't answer because answering it proves [01:20] it. But proportionality bias only [01:22] explains why people go looking for [01:24] something bigger. It doesn't explain why [01:27] they keep finding the same answer. And [01:29] for that, you need to look at something [01:31] much older. 1865, Lincoln is shot and [01:34] the story becomes a Jewish Confederate [01:36] cabinet officer and a Jewish banking [01:38] family. 1881, the Tsar is killed by [01:41] anarchists. The rumor says the Jews did [01:44] it. 200 pogroms in a single year. 1963, [01:48] Kennedy. 30 years on, a book pins it on [01:50] the Mossad and it's still in print. [01:53] 2001, the towers. Same claim, same [01:56] publisher. 2025 Charlie Kirk. Except the [02:00] list doesn't start in 1865. It starts [02:03] when this guy got executed. That's the [02:05] original. Everything after is a rewrite. [02:08] A new century, a new victim, same [02:11] defendant. And all those accounts [02:13] telling you Israel murders the people [02:14] who criticize it, I have spent the last [02:17] year criticizing Israel daily to [02:20] millions of people completely unharmed. [02:22] This isn't asking questions. Questions [02:25] have answers. This is just blaming the [02:27] Jews. [02:29] >> [music]
Within hours of Charlie Kirk's shooting, huge numbers of people had already settled on who was responsible, with nothing to back it up but a vibe.
We trace that feeling back to a real psychological pattern (the assumption that massive events need massive causes) and then further back, to an accusation that has followed nearly every major assassination for more than 150 years, always landing on the same target.
Presenter: Ben Chertoff
