Candace Owens reacts during “Turning Point’s The Peoples Convention” on June 14, 2024, at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. | Source: JEFF KOWALSKY / Getty
An organization devoted to combatting hatred against Jewish people on Sunday named Candace Owens the “2024 Antisemite of the Year” in an award the controversial conservative commentator proudly accepted in a series of social media posts.
Using the Jewish phrase “Mazel Tov” to congratulate Owens on her shameful accomplishment, the group Stop Antisemitism shared a video on social media that documented reasons why the frequent sympathizer of Adolf Hitler is so deserving of the hateful distinction.
“The political commentator unmasked her dormant antisemitic beliefs in 2024 leading to an easy victory” for Owens, the video said in part.
Stop Antisemitism said Owens received more than 30,000 votes on her way to claiming victory.
“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 wrote in part. “But after Hamas’ October 7th massacre, she revealed her shocking antisemitism, leading to her departure from the Shapiro’s Daily Wire and condemnation from PragerU.”
It was in that context that Owens accepted Stop Antisemitism’s award as if it was a badge of honor – but not before using the opportunity to express antisemitic and anti-Black sentiments.
“Zionists are completely out of touch,” Owens said in response to a social media post announcing the award. “Reminiscent of BLM in 2020 running around calling everything and everyone racist.”
Owens later added a separate social media post that she planned to have “an acceptance speech” for the award on her show on YouTube.
“So many people to thank,” Owens wrote.
The 2024 Antisemite of the Year award came a few weeks after New Zealand became the latest country preventing her from entering its borders. While the South Pacific nation did not specifically cite antisemitism as the reason for banning Owens, the move came after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II,” the Associated Press reported at the time.
New Zealand is, of course, where one of the alleged suspects in deadly shooting attacks on two mosques in 2019 left behind what the Associated Press called “a 74-page anti-immigrant manifesto in which he explained who he was and his reasoning for his actions. He said he considered it a terrorist attack.”
It was in that reported manifesto that Owens was cited as “the person that has influenced me above all,” according to an apparent partial transcript posted to Twitter, now X, by journalist Ian Miles Cheong.
The concerns about Candace Owens and antisemitism are valid and longstanding.
To put it mildly, Candace Owens loves Hitler comparisons.
Not only has she downplayed the Capitol riot on numerous occasions and blasted Democrats for their treatment of those charged with crimes, but she’s also even gone as far as comparing the party’s actions to that of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Owens has maintained this type of position that appears to be particularly sympathetic to Hitler since at least 2019, when she said during a speech that “Hitler just wanted to make Germany great.”
At the time, Owens was speaking at a London event to launch the British chapter of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth group led by unabashed racist Charlie Kirk. Owens used language that mirrors Donald Trump’s controversial MAGA movement.
“When we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. He was a national socialist,” Owens told the group before adding: “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine.”
She didn’t stop there.
“The problem is he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany,” Owens continued. “He wanted to globalize, he wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way. To me, that’s not nationalism. So in thinking about how it could go bad down the line, I don’t really have an issue with nationalism, I really don’t.”
The statements, from which Owens unsuccessfully tried to distance herself, suggest that she has no problem with the millions of Jews who Hitler and his army of Nazis slaughtered because, according to her, he was just trying to make Germany “great.”
Portions of that speech were played that same year by Democratic California Congressman Ted Lieu during a House Judiciary Committee on white nationalism.
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