• Turning Point USA has a history of working with influencers and individuals who have pushed antisemitic, racist, and white nationalist talking points. [Media Matters, 9/15/23]
• Some Turning Point USA-linked figures have been criticized for their responses to the war. [Media Matters, 10/18/23; MSNBC, 10/18/23]

Kirk blamed “Jewish dollars” for funding “Cultural Marxist ideas." According to Jewish Currents, “Cultural Marxism” is an antisemitic trope that purports that Jewish people are attempting to “undermine traditional American values.” [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 11/7/23; Jewish Currents, 5/3/19]

• Kirk said that Jewish people control “not just the colleges; it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it.” Kirk also said ”the number one funding mechanism of radical, open border, neoliberal, quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions, and nonprofits" is “Jewish donors.” Claims that wealthy Jewish people and donors control major institutions and Hollywood are common antisemitic tropes. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The Washington Post, 10/17/22; The Times of Israel, 11/17/22]

• Kirk did an antisemitic impression of a Jewish person while responding to a protest on the Cooper Union campus. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23; The New York Times, 10/26/23]

• Kirk made a blanket statement about Jewish people, saying that in “American Jewish society” there is an “overcompensation to want to be liked,” and Jews go “above and beyond to give donations.” [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/26/23]

• Kirk suggested that “secular” and “elite” Jewish people who are “pumping money” into colleges and universities have been “turning a blind eye” to antisemitism. [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/13/23]

• Kirk blamed “elite Jewish culture” for being “one of the main funding sources” for “elite” colleges and universities that he suggested are breeding “Jew hatred.” [Salem Media Group, The Charlie Kirk Show, 10/13/23]

• On X (formerly Twitter), Kirk has repeatedly attacked Jewish people who have donated to American colleges and universities, sometimes by name. [Twitter/X, 10/17/23, 10/17/23, 10/11/23, 10/26/23]

Updated (11/7/23): This post has been updated with additional examples.