{"id":315426,"date":"2025-09-18T06:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315426"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:34:25","slug":"billionaire-bill-ackman-convened-stormy-israel-intervention-with-charlie-kirk-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315426","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel \u2018intervention\u2019 with Charlie Kirk, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Blumenthal \u2013 The Gray Zone Sept 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A month before Charlie Kirk\u2019s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he and others \u201chammered\u201d Kirk for the conservative leader\u2019s growing criticism of Israeli influence in Washington. Kirk came away fretting about Israeli \u201cblackmail,\u201d sources say, as he contemplated a Catholic conversion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On September 11, one day after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman took to Twitter\/X to trumpet his relationship<\/a> with the late conservative operative. \u201cI feel incredibly privileged to have spent a day and shared a meal with @charliekirk11 this summer. He was a giant of a man.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Grayzone has spoken to five people with intimate knowledge of Kirk\u2019s meeting with Ackman, which was held in early August. According to one source, Kirk was left upset after the gathering turned into an\u00a0\u201cintervention\u201d where he was \u201chammered\u201d for his increasingly skeptical views on the US special relationship with Israel, and for platforming prominent conservative critics of Israel at his TPUSA events.<\/p>\n

Since publishing this report, The Grayzone has learned from one attendee of the Hamptons event that Ackman convened the influencers under the auspices of a discussion about Zohran Mamdani and the supposed threat he posed to the West if elected mayor of New York. But the meeting went off the rails when Ackman personally confronted Kirk about his views on Israel. The public face of UK Lawyers for Israel, Natasha Hausdorff, joined in the argument, and began \u201cscreaming\u201d at Kirk, according to the attendee.<\/p>\n

When his hosts presented him with a detailed list of every offense he supposedly committed against Israel, Kirk was \u201chorrified,\u201d said one person. Ackman also allegedly demanded Kirk rescind his invitation for Tucker Carlson to speak at his upcoming America Fest 2025<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing was a disaster,\u201d said an attendee.<\/p>\n

The Grayzone reported on September 12, citing a longtime associate of Kirk, that Netanyahu had offered to organize a massive infusion of pro-Israel money into TPUSA, and that Kirk refused. Another longtime friend of Kirk has told The Grayzone that the conservative activist also rejected an offer Netanyahu delivered<\/a> two weeks before his death to meet with him in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Kirk, according to one person with inside knowledge of the meeting with Ackman, said he left feeling as though he\u2019d been subjected to \u201cblackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a series of text messages with The Grayzone, Ackman described these account of his meeting with Kirk as \u201ctotally false.\u201d He pledged to release a public statement providing his own account of the event, but refused The Grayzone\u2019s request for clarification or further details. He would not accept phone calls from this reporter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I can easily put this to bed,\u201d Ackman promised, \u201cI have receipts as they say.\u201d He did not abide when asked to provide the so-called \u201creceipts.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an apparent bid to reinforce the pro-Israel tone at the Hamptons meeting, Ackman hosted a coterie of pro-Israel operatives and conservative influencers at the off-the-record engagement. One was Instagram influencer Xaviaer DuRousseau<\/a> of Prager U.<\/p>\n

Reached by phone by The Grayzone, DuRousseau sounded flustered when asked about his presence at the meeting. He repeatedly demanded to know how this reporter obtained his number, and eventually hung up, refusing to answer questions about the event.<\/p>\n

Several Instagram posts by DuRousseau show him and his friend, conservative influencer Emily Wilson, in the Hamptons on August 8 outside Topping Rose House<\/a>, a posh hotel and restaurant in Bridgehampton, New York.<\/p>\n

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Two weeks after the meeting, DeRousseau was reportedly junketed<\/a> on an all-expenses-paid trip by the Israeli government to visit a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation \u201caid\u201d hub guarded by the IDF on the Gaza frontier. There, he recorded an Instagram video<\/a> denying that the population of the besieged Gaza Strip was experiencing a famine.<\/p>\n

The Grayzone received a similarly agitated response from Wilson, known online as Emily Saves America<\/a>. Following a phone call and exchange of text messages in which this reporter asked her numerous times about her attendance of the meeting in the Hamptons, Wilson refused to comment. Instagram photos place her in the Hamptons at the same time as DuRousseau.<\/p>\n

CJ Pearson, a leading youth coordinator for the Republican National Committee, immediately referred The Grayzone to his communications director when asked if he attended the Hamptons gathering.<\/p>\n

The strong-arm tactics of the pro-Israel billionaires who helped fuel the growth of TPUSA were said to have contributed to Kirk\u2019s alienation with evangelical Christianity, which emphasizes uncritical support for Israel as a bedrock principle. Several sources with access to Kirk said he had begun attending Catholic mass with his wife, Erika, and was considering a conversion before his death.<\/p>\n

Bree Solsdadt, a Catholic Twitter\/X influencer, has publicly corroborated<\/a> this account of Kirk\u2019s religious realignment. Kirk\u2019s friend, the podcaster and former TPUSA personality Candace Owens, also alluded to the shift when she reflected that he was undergoing a \u201cspiritual transformation\u201d before his death.<\/p>\n

Israel-centric influencer summit in the Hamptons<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Grayzone has obtained a partial list of attendees alleged to have been in attendance at the Bridgehampton meeting convened by Ackman this August. They include:<\/p>\n

Seth Dillon<\/strong> \u2013 Dillion is the CEO of Babylon Bee, the conservative answer to the liberal The Onion satire outlet. Dillon and his crew have derisively mocked famine-stricken Palestinians<\/a> and their supporters in the West, since Israel\u2019s slash-and-burn campaign began in the besieged Gaza Strip. An evangelical Christian with Jewish heritage, he has claimed<\/a>, \u201cI did not cease having Ashkenazi blood when I put my faith in Jesus Christ (also a Jew).\u201d Dillon did not answer calls from The Grayzone.<\/p>\n

Xaviaer DuRousseau<\/strong> \u2013 DuRousseau is employed by Prager U, the premier right-wing \u201cedu-tainment\u201d hub targeting the minds of American youth. His boss, Marissa Streit, is a veteran of the Israeli army\u2019s Unit 8200<\/a> cyber-spying division. A Black self-described former progressive, DuRousseau now appears firmly in the pocket of right-wing Zionist forces. During his Israeli government-funded visit to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation \u201caid\u201d hub inside Gaza, DuRousseau falsely claimed the United Nations and Hamas were to blame for the hunger sweeping the local population. \u201cIf I were Israel, I wouldn\u2019t even provide matching socks to Gaza, but here\u2019s all the aid that y\u2019all claim doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d he said in an Instagram video filmed in front of boxes of aid blocked from entering Gaza. \u201cInstead of Hamas distributing the ramen noodles,\u201d DuRousseau continued, \u201ctheir leaders are eating it all and that\u2019s why they\u2019re on Ozempic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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