Senator Ted Cruz sharply mocked Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene after she published a social media post suggesting she could be targeted by the Israeli government for speaking what she calls “the truth.”

“Why do crazy people keep thinking ‘the Jews’ are trying to kill them?” the Texas senator asked bluntly on X late Sunday evening. 

Mr. Cruz’s rebuke came in response to a lengthy post Ms. Greene shared over the weekend in which she declared her support for Representative Thomas Massie’s legislative effort to force the Department of Justice to publicly release all documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. In the same post, Ms. Greene appeared to preemptively defend herself against what she portrayed as potential retaliation.

“I am not suicidal and one of the happiest healthiest people you will meet,” Ms. Greene wrote in the now-viral post. “With that said, if something happens to me, I ask you all to find out which foreign government or powerful people would take heinous actions to stop the information from coming out.”

The Georgia congresswoman went further, expanding her statement beyond just the Epstein case. “This applies not only to Epstein files but the truth that I have been speaking,” she continued, adding cryptically: “The People understand what I’m saying.”

While Ms. Greene never explicitly identified which “foreign government” she was referencing, Mr. Cruz made clear he understood the implication. He noted with sarcasm that Ms. Greene was obviously not talking about the “Belgians” or “Argentinians.” 

Mr. Cruz went on to address another conspiracy theory that has gained traction in certain conservative circles, stating firmly: “And no, Israel didn’t murder Charlie.” He was referring to the assassination of the Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk, whose death has sparked a wave of unfounded theories implicating Israel and the Jewish people.

The social media clash marks the latest episode in Mr. Cruz’s sustained battle against a faction of conservatives who have embraced conspiracy theories targeting Israel and the Jewish community, particularly following Kirk’s death.

Earlier this month, the senator criticized a prominent conservative commentator, Tucker Carlson, after Mr. Carlson suggested that Kirk’s support for Israel had been diminishing in the months before his death, allegedly due to concerns about the Gaza war.

“I’m getting really tired of Tucker & his cronies falsely claiming ‘Charlie agreed with me that Israel is terrible & the problem in America is all the damn Jews….,’” Mr. Cruz shared on X. He added that he “knew Charlie well” and that the “very last conversation we had was how deeply concerned he was about the rising, toxic wave of antisemitism on the right.” 

Within hours of Kirk’s assassination, social media platforms were flooded with baseless conspiracy theories attributing his death to Israeli intelligence services or Jewish organizations. One prevalent narrative claimed that Israel orchestrated Kirk’s murder because he had purportedly become more critical of the war against Hamas — a claim that lacks any credible evidence and contradicts Kirk’s well-documented positions.

These theories have continued to circulate and gain traction in certain online communities, even after law enforcement identified the suspect as a lone gunman with no apparent connections to Israel or any foreign government.