Posted on 02/15/2024 8:41:53 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Controversial Daily Wire host Candace Owens dropped a lengthy screed on Instagram on Wednesday, in which she blasted America’s support for Israel and accused “political Jews” of creating anti-Semitism.
Owens shared a post from fellow Daily Wire host Matt Walsh raging against foreign aid and began her rant by writing, “Further to that point I would like to say this.”
“I grew up in a town that had a large Jewish community. For whatever reason my best friends throughout my childhood and early adulthood were always Jewish,” Owen began before discussing her connections to the Jewish community, having nannied for a Jewish family in Manhattan and working for two Jewish men at a private equity fund.
“So why am I telling you this?” she then asked and wrote:
Never once in all of those years, ever, did I hear ANY of those people accuse others of being antisemitic or a “Jew Hater”.
That all changed when I got into politics and met what I would describe as political Jews-who operate almost exactly like Black Lives Matter.
These people-regarding which they are a small, fringe faction, are some of those most vile, dishonest, manipulative people that I have ever met. Under the guise of fighting antisemitism, they actually create it.
Notably, accusing Jews of fueling anti-Semitism is a classic anti-Semitic trope. Owens and Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro have feuded in the past over Israel and Owens defending Kanye West’s anti-Semitic tirades. Owens has a long history of controversial and outlandish rhetoric including saying Adolf Hitler’s “nationalism” inside Germany was “fine” and that parents who take their kids to drag queen story hour should have them “taken away.”
“Just as Black Lives Matter radicals would threaten and intimidate white people’s lives by constantly smearing and libeling people into submission, these radicals do the same,” Owens continued.
“BLM ultimately hurt the black community. The Jewish fringe are hurting the Jewish community by misrepresenting who they are,” she continued, before turning to Israel:
My political philosophy has always been that we should not be using taxpayer dollars to support foreigners. I am therefore against the welfare programs for illegal immigrants. I’m against illegal immigration as a whole as it burdens taxpayers. I was against sending money to Afghanistan and Ukraine and therefore I am, of course, against sending a single dime to Israel.
“America is a country that is trillions dollars in debt. Why on earth are we sending money to a nation that has less debt than us?” she continued, adding: “This is common economic sense. Not antisemitism.”
“Ultimately what this particular fringe group of radical jewish [sic] people are, are thugs and marxists. They want power, and they are willing to harm their Jewish peers to get it,” Owens continued, adding:
Have the courage to call these people out. To my jewish friends: you are not a monolith. You do not have to support their Marxism or believe their nasty lies.
Owens ended by saying she hopes all the Israeli hostages are “found” and that “I also cry and mourn for the little children in Palestine who are growing up with the threat of bombs dropped on them every day.”
There are plenty of conservatives, or at least conservative fringers, who are happily in bed with the Tliabs of the left.
Any time, someone starts off with “some of my best friends are _____”, you can be sure of what’s to follow.
I’m a Zionist from the “river to the sea” as in the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.
Heck Dr. Billy Graham in my youth said Israel would one day go from the Euphrates River in Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea.
But there is a problem with Globalist Moderates anti-MAGA types hijacking Zionism to smear Conservatives as Anti-Semites.
Case in point Doug Mastriano the GOP candidate for Governor here in PA.
I’m still waiting for Governor Josh Shapiro’s public apology for the smear.
Well, in this case it seems to hardly be true. She is taking pains to differentiate this specific group of Marxists from people that are merely and actually Jewish, as well as noting their small actual numbers.
I would have thought of her as presidential material until she started all of this. It proves that she does not have a clue when it comes to dealing with Rape, torturous Murder, and Evil. No Thanks.
It’s everywhere. ISRAEL IS JUDAISM and that’s it. She does a disservice to everyone. There is more anti-semitism today than I have seen in my lifetime. I am not fringe, I am just a realist. My parents would always tell me that it is out there, underground and when the time is right, they will come out. And they are, in droves.
I’m a Zionist who supports the Zionists being persecuted by the Biden Administration Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Those guys along with their followers targeted by the Globalists like Biden and the European Union.
I’m a Zionist not a Globalist Moderate like those who smear Candace Owens as an Anti-Semite.
Please inform us about what she said that was wrong instead of childish name-calling.
I watched this and she was talking about the ADL which is nothing a radical leftists poising as advocates for Jews on a par with that other evil prick poser Soros.
Owens is not actually wrong. Some people who happen to be Jewish have been nazis, communists and whatever -ism you can think of.
For whatever reason, they manage to fuel antisemitism in the world.
Leftist Jews are kapos.
“That all changed when I got into politics and met what I would describe as political Jews-who operate almost exactly like Black Lives Matter.”
A lot of truth in that!
Both milk the “victim card” to the max!
As does Ukraine.
And there are plenty of American politicians and corporations who promote and PROFIT from those victim cards.
“I’m a Zionist not a Globalist Moderate like those who smear Candace Owens as an Anti-Semite.”
I guess that like Owens you think that there are good Jews and bad Jews....and not just that but good Zionists and bad Zionists.
I ardently support that State of Israel, but I think Ben Gvir is a loose cannon and a liability. So I guess that makes me a Globalist.
Relating to Owens, WHO is “smearing” her? Her words speak for themselves. And it has not been unusual for the greatest anti-Semites in history to state that they know SOME Jews who aren’t so bad.
They are building the NWO with people who call themselves Christians sucking up to butchers like Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Sawman of Saudi Arabia for the sake of $$$$.
They will sell out Jews in Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) for the Palestinian State in the end and that’s contrary to the Land of Israel as defined in “The Good Book”.
I think it is because people tend to blame all Jews for the actions of some Jews.
I don’t know of another group that gets smeared so badly because of the actions of some.
It’s as logical as blaming all Catholics for the actions of Biden and Pelosi.
I see $$$$ as the priority cutting the deal with the Saudis and Gulf Arabs building the World Economy the Great Reset.
I am a Christian Zionist in the end not a Davos Zionist.
Judea and Samaria are Israel Ben Gvir gets that right and so does Smotrich IMHO as human and flawed as they are like myself.
As one looks to the demographics of Orthodox Jews, they tend to be family-oriented with larger families, more adherent to scripture and related texts, and vote along conservative lines.
Distinctly the opposite, the very liberal "Jews" -- and some would joke "bagel" Jews -- identify only with the culture, but are far less evident in terms of being family-oriented and with large families, and far less respectful of scripture and vote along Leftist lines.
The same may be observed in all the various Christian denominations, wherein a conservative "orthodoxy" is quite other than the extreme Leftist, trendy, pro-abortion and pro-LGBT+ "Christian" denominations.
Please note I placed quotation marks around the "Christian" and "Jews" nouns above, because the Leftists seem to be more like one another than any observant religious people.
Let’s look at the substance of her remarks.
“...therefore I am, of course, against sending a single dime to Israel.”
From the Congressional Research Service report, updated November 16, 2020:
“As of October 2020, the Trump Administration was considering an acceleration of the timetable for delivering some of the remaining $26.4 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants to Israel (out of a total of $33 billion) pledged in the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to Israel, subject to the approval of Congress. The United States also may approve additional sales of the F-35 to Israel and accelerate the delivery of KC-46A refueling and transport aircraft to Israel.”
Pick a side.
Well, perhaps it’s best to read on.
“Never once in all of those years, ever, did I hear ANY of those people accuse others of being antisemitic or a “Jew Hater”.
That all changed when I got into politics and met what I would describe as political Jews-who operate almost exactly like Black Lives Matter.”
Whether the parallels are exact or not, her words are worth considerning.
Matt Walsh said the other day that the US shouldn’t provide aide to countries with a lower debt to GDP than ours like Israel. Does that make him antisemitic too?
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