The File
Maram Susli, known online as Syrian Girl and Partisan Girl, built an audience defending the Assad government and has contributed to Infowars, RT, and Iran's Press TV alongside her YouTube presence. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, Susli was among those who amplified a conspiracy theory blaming Israel, sharing an August 2025 Infowars clip from host Harrison Smith in which Smith claimed he had been told Kirk believed Israel would kill him if he turned against them. The claim ignored that Kirk was a public and consistent supporter of Israel.
The Documented Record
2012: Susli began producing videos on the Syrian civil war under the name Syrian Girl, defending the Assad government and criticizing Syrian rebels. [DOCUMENTED]
2014: In an interview with The Daily Beast, Susli described her worldview and denied any special allegiance to Assad personally while continuing to defend the Syrian government's position. [DOCUMENTED]
Susli has contributed to Infowars, RT, and Iran's Press TV, and academic analysis has examined her role in online conspiracy-claim amplification within broader public-sphere disinformation research. [HIGH]
August 13, 2025: Harrison Smith, an Infowars host, posted a claim stating he had been told by someone close to Charlie Kirk that Kirk believed Israel would kill him if he turned against them. [DOCUMENTED]
September 10, 2025: Charlie Kirk was assassinated. [DOCUMENTED]
September 2025: Susli was among the online figures who promoted the theory that Israel was responsible for Kirk's assassination, sharing Smith's earlier claim in the aftermath. [DOCUMENTED]
Kirk was a public and consistent supporter of Israel, a fact reporting on the conspiracy theory's spread noted directly undermined the claim's internal logic. [DOCUMENTED]
What the Record Does Not Establish
The record does not establish that Smith's claim about what Kirk privately believed is true, only that Smith made the claim publicly and that it was later amplified in the context of the assassination. It does not establish coordination between Susli and Smith beyond Susli's act of sharing his existing post. The strongest rival explanation is that this represents ordinary conspiracy-community amplification of an unverified secondhand claim during a high-attention news event, not a planned joint operation between the two figures.
Sources
- Israel conspiracy theories after Charlie Kirk's assassination, St. Louis Jewish Light, 2025
- Online conspiracy theorists blame the Jews for Charlie Kirk's assassination, Times of Israel, 2025
- The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad, The Daily Beast, 2014
- Evaluating conspiracy claims as public sphere participation, Taylor and Francis, 2021
Connected Files
AJONES-008 and AJONES-009 document Harrison Smith's broader pattern of claims on Infowars. GREEN-001 documents the wider network of state media relationships this file's Press TV connection touches.