US conservative activist Charlie Kirk will be honored posthumously at Israel’s “Generation of Truth” conference in Jerusalem next week, as the government convenes lawmakers, diplomats, and Jewish leaders for two days of events tied to International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Second International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, led by Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli, was scheduled for January 26–27, with the main conference at Jerusalem’s Binyanei Ha’uma convention center on January 27, alongside invitation-only side events including a Knesset meeting and a formal gala.
Chikli said in a statement that the conference aimed to build “an international coalition” that recognized antisemitism as “a murderous ideology” that threatened “the entire free world,” according to the organizers’ materials.
Kirk, a co-founder of Turning Point USA who became a prominent voice in US conservative politics, was killed in a September 2025 shooting, and Israeli officials said the Jerusalem gathering would include a tribute in his memory.
According to the conference agenda published by organizers, speakers on January 27 were set to include President Isaac Herzog, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, former Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, and Argentina’s justice minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona, alongside panels on Holocaust denial, disinformation, and radicalization in Western societies.
Increased concern over antisemitism since October 7
The conference was being held against a backdrop of heightened concern over antisemitism worldwide since October 7, 2023. A September 2025 Anti-Defamation League and World Union of Jewish Students survey cited by The Jerusalem Post found that 78% of Jewish students globally said they felt a need to hide their Jewish identity on campus.
Organizers also pointed to a recent string of deadly attacks. In May 2025, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said two Israeli Embassy employees, Yaron Lishinsky and Sarah Milgram, were killed in a terror attack outside the Jewish Museum in Washington.
In December, an antisemitic attack targeting a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach killed 15 people and wounded dozens, with Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, listed on the conference program, among those who led funerals for victims.