Posted on 12/20/2024 10:21:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A watchdog group crowned Candace Owens as the 2024 "Antisemite of the Year," highlighting the political pundit's remarks about the Holocaust, Israel and the Jewish community.
StopAntisemitism, a grassroots organization that exposes groups or individuals who they say spread hatred of the Jewish people and Israel, holds an annual poll to determine who gets the "distinct dishonor" of "Antisemite of the Year."
This week, the group announced on social media that Owens won the award via a poll with over 30,000 votes. Other contenders for the award included environmental activist Greta Thunberg and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
"Once celebrated for her unapologetic takes that catapulted her into the conservative spotlight, Owens was given platforms by prominent Jewish conservatives like Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro," the group stated.
"But after Hamas' October 7th massacre, she revealed her shocking antisemitism, leading to her departure from Shapiro's Daily Wire and condemnation from PragerU."
The 35-year-old commentator reacted to the announcement during a Monday episode of her new podcast "Candace." Owens denied holding anti-Jewish beliefs, asserting that the "pro-Israel lobby" is using the accusation of antisemitism to silence debate.
She likened pro-Israel organizations to the activist group Black Lives Matter, which she believes accuses people of white supremacy to "amass power" rather than combat racism.
"We're doing the exact same thing again with antisemitism, and it's so weird because you have people that are supposed to be brilliant who should work through that this isn't going to work socially," said Owens.
"It's not landing; people are getting tired," she added. "You can't just keep calling everyone Adolf Hitler; you're taking the sting out of Adolf Hitler. People are now making jokes about Adolf Hitler because you just refer to every person that you have a disagreement with as the spawn of Hitler."
Owens and The Daily Wire publicly parted ways earlier this year following a series of remarks from Owens that many condemned as antisemitic. Owens had accused Israel of genocide for its response to Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in southern Israel.
She also claimed that Israel enforces "Jim Crow" policies by forcing Muslims to live in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter. However, Israel doesn't force Muslims to live there, and it also has a Christian Quarter and a Jewish Quarter.
The conservative outlet and Owens went their separate ways shortly after the pundit liked a tweet in March asking if author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was "drunk on Christian blood," an antisemitic stereotype.
After she departed from The Daily Wire, Owens continued to attract controversy for her statements about Israel and the Jewish community, which resulted in Australia and later New Zealand denying entry to the pundit.
Australian officials cited remarks Owens made in a July podcast, in which she referred to reports of Nazi experiments on Jews as "bizarre propaganda."
In response to Owens' remarks, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of the nonprofit Proclaiming Justice to The Nations, urged churches to cut ties with Owens.
"Candace Owens has verged into the abyss of blind Jew-hatred, rooted in the sewers of historical Christian antisemitism, which led to the death of millions of Jews in the name of Christianity," Cardoza-Moore said in a statement last month.
"It's time that churches close the doors on Candace. The Candace Owens we once knew is no longer there," Cardoza-Moore continued. "She has no substance beyond her repugnant, unfounded, and obsessive hate for God's Chosen People. There is no place for her anywhere in the Conservative Christian world."
I don’t agree with her on some of those things, to say the least.
But I’d rather someone be honest about what they think.
She’s totally earned it. Candy has gone full antisemite. I listened to a couple of her screeds a few weeks ago and its like a demon took over her body. She converted from Baptist to Catholic and somewhere along the line there was a short circuit.
October 7 seemed to cause a lot of antisemites to come out of the woodwork.
I guess it was disappointing to them that it turned out badly for Muslims.
A sad, but unsurprising development.
I don’t know if we are seeing the ‘real Candace’ now or not.
She wasn’t always focused on tying all ills of the world to Israel, but here we are. I expect she’ll be interviewing
Rev. Louis Farakhan pretty soon, so he can ‘dismiss the many wrongful public perceptions’ about him.
“But I’d rather someone be honest about what they think.”
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Color me cynical, but I’m not sure at all that she IS being honest. Her antisemitic views are quite inconsistent with her other conservative viewpoints.
I would not be shocked to find out that she accepted $5-10 million under the table to espouse these views.
I don’t think that references to “God’s Chosen People” is the best way to fight antisemitism.
To think there are those here that wanted her to be the VP.
It goes without saying. Win an election or two. It helps. You can’t sneak up on people like Obama did with the Reverend Wright.
She rose high and fast on the basis of three things:
Ideology
Gender
Ability to speak well\
Skin color
In other words, she is the female Obama - or the conservative AOC if you prefer.
Shame on those on our side who enabled an otherwise inconsequential administrative aide with no education or experience credentials to a position of influence.
If AOC is not in it I call B S! Another Russia Trump, Owens antisemite trope.
“October 7 seemed to cause a lot of antisemites to come out of the woodwork.”
I see plenty of them on Twitter who are MAGA and conservative.
“She’s totally earned it.”
She exposed what she believes are the lies by both the US and Israel told about the attack on USS Liberty where 34 Americans died and 174 others injured. To be honest, I know I can’t trust anything our government says about the incident. I know I grew up thinking that there was a massive coverup of the incident.
No government has clean hands unfortunately, not the US or Israel (you can almost say this about most if not all). With this said, I still love America and support Israel as an important ally 100%. But we shouldn’t close our eyes to ours or their faults.
I would like to know exactly what she said that was antisemite and was untruthful? I don’t know enough.
Well earned.
“I don’t think that references to “God’s Chosen People” is the best way to fight antisemitism.”
You must read what Islam says about itself. Their choseness and supremacism is 20x greater than what Jews have. They get this brainwashing to make Jihad, and to believe that Jihad martyrs automatically go to Allah’s heaven. With no judgement required.
Anyways, most tribes and peoples believe they are superior to their neighbors and others. The Japanese in WW2 are an example. Most Indian tribes believed this. Same for the English during their Empire era.
I agree with Candice on a lot of things, but she has been teetering off the rails lately on some. She thinks Netanyahu knew about the Oct. 7 attack beforehand, and allowed it to happen so he could destroy Gaza. That’s crazy conspiracy theory stuff, and she has little evidence to support it. There were warnings certainly, but there are always warnings that mostly don’t come true. It takes more than that. She has called what’s happening in Gaza a “Holocaust”, comparable to what the Nazis did. She doesn’t support Hamas, but apparently doesn’t understand that you can’t just surgically take them out without civilian casualties.
That’s pretty much how it works with TV clowns in political media.
Case in point: Sean Hannity. That guy makes Candace Owens look like a neurosurgeon who does her podcast between Mensa meetings.
Did she declare ‘Christ is King’ too many times?
She has taken a bizarre detour from when we liked her. It would be nice to have her back but I don’t think we’re holding our breaths.
She has a point
- it shouldn’t be so easy to label people as racists
- it shouldn’t be so easy to label people as rapists
- it shouldn’t be so easy to label people as antisemites.
Some people deserve these labels, but these are serious charges and guilt by accusation isn’t a thing.
As accusations go, naming someone “so-and-so of the year” is about as devoid of substance as it gets.
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