Firebrand pundit Candace Owens has been named “Antisemite of the Year” by watchdog StopAntisemitism, which says she “blew the competition away” with extra votes than anybody in earlier years.
“Candace Owens’ witch’s brew of antisemitism drew from vile medieval blood libels, including claims that Jews drink Christian blood, conspiracies that Jews are pedophiles who control the media and are ‘taking over America,’ and modern toxic anti-Israel hysteria,” StopAntisemitism’s founder, Liora Rez, advised The Publish.
“There is no psychotic rabbit hole too extreme for this poisonous hater.”
StopAntisemitism bestowed the title final 12 months on Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Different recipients have included Ye, the Hitler-loving rapper previously generally known as Kanye West, in 2022, and Tlaib’s fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in 2019.
The watchdog shared a video of feedback from Owens — who cut up from The Day by day Wire over her views — together with her defending Ye’s antisemitic tirades and likewise her attacking Israel, which she claimed had “occupied” the US, within the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, bloodbath.
“Jew-hatred is a symptom of a decaying society just as it is a rotting mind,” Rez said.
“This dishonor is awarded to the person who has accomplished essentially the most to hazard the Jewish neighborhood, and in 2024, Candace Owens has tragically and decisively earned the title.
“Out of dozens of contenders, she blew the competition away with her relentless campaign of dangerous rhetoric targeting the Jewish community, earning more votes than any Antisemite of the Year we’ve ever named.”
The outspoken conservative pundit had beforehand scoffed at being within the working for the title.
“I feel like maybe [Israeli] prime minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu should’ve made the list because he’s killed more semites than anybody — did we forget Palestinians are semites,” she stated on her present final month.
Owens’ staff didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Sunday.
Owens had parted methods in March with the Day by day Wire, a conservative outlet she started working for in 2021. She is broadly believed to be beneath a gag order that precludes her from talking particularly on the cut up.
Nonetheless, her departure got here amid public friction with its co-founder and star podcaster Ben Shapiro. Within the wake of the Hamas shock assault that killed some 1,200 Israelis, she was caught liking a put up on X spouting a weird and centuries-old conspiracy principle about rabbis consuming the blood of Christians.
Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew and a staunch defender of Israel, had criticized Owens’ feedback as “absolutely disgraceful.”
Rez stated that “thankfully” Owens “has been disavowed by lots of her former pals and allies.
“But she is a cautionary tale for our nation,” the watchdog’s founder stated. “Just as Candace has deteriorated into insanity and irrelevance, so does every civilization where antisemitism flourishes.”
Following her departure from the Day by day Wire, Owens has launched her personal present, which she posts on YouTube and different platforms.
She’s additionally continued to attract scrutiny over her feedback on Jewish Individuals. Over the summer season, she urged that among the heinous experiments performed by infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele throughout the Holocaust have been merely “propaganda.”
“The Nazis experimented on innocent people,” Owens stated over the summer season. “Some of the stories, by the way, sound completely absurd.”
Her commentary has sparked worldwide backlash. In October, it was revealed that she. had been denied a visa to Australia. New Zealand adopted go well with, earlier than lately reversing itself.
