Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday appeared to suggest in a post on X that former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated over his opposition to Israel’s nuclear program.
“There was once a great President that the American people loved. He opposed Israel’s nuclear program. And then he was assassinated,” Greene posted on X as she defended her dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump’s weekend strike on Iran. Greene’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment asking for clarity on the remarks.
In the early 1960s, Kennedy was an ardent opponent of Israel’s nuclear program, worried it was a serious proliferation risk, according to declassified documents published in 2016 by the National Security Archive. At the time, Kennedy insisted that Israel permit periodic inspections to mitigate the danger. Israel has remained ambiguous about whether it has a nuclear program.
Wild conspiracy theories have proliferated in the years since Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, but both the FBI and the Warren Commission, a presidential commission set up to probe Kennedy’s killing, found that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the murder.
Greene posted her claims in response to conservative commentator Mark Levin, who on X called the Georgia representative “stupid” and told her to “keep banging your head against the wall” over her objections to the Trump administration’s weekend strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
“I’m not going away. You’re on my radar,” Levin said.
“This is extremely sick and disturbing,” Greene said in her post before accusing Levin of using the same tone and language as the “psychopaths” that send her death threats “every single day.”
She continued on to discuss Jesus and his teachings, including to “pray for your enemies.”
“I will do my best to pray for you. But I will be watchful now,” Greene said before launching into the Kennedy section. “I am for peace. I oppose war including wars Israel wages. Should I feel that my life is in danger now too? What about President Trump who strongly rebuked Israel this morning for continuing to attack Iran?”
A representative for Levin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is not the first conspiracy theory related to Jews or Israel that Greene has espoused. In 2018, Greene promoted a conspiracy theory on Facebook where she speculated California wildfires could have been caused by lasers shot from space generators funded by the Rothschild investment group. The comments were condemned by Jewish groups as antisemitic.
