Whatever one thought of his politics, Kirk consistently confronted antisemitic lies on U.S. campuses and stood with Jewish students in the face of hostility. Kirk was gunned down at a campus event in Utah — a chilling reminder of the growing threat of political violence in America. Journalists, activists, and politicians who have trafficked in antisemitic tropes or winked at violence against Zionists are suddenly against political violence when it takes the life of a man they spent years vilifying. “Political violence is absolutely unacceptable and indefensible,” she wrote, urging Americans to “pray for no more lives being lost to gun violence.” The same politician who has vilified Jewish students for their Zionism now demands the moral high ground on political violence. This commentary on Charlie Kirk’s murder is not about speculating on motive.