The former communications director with Turning Point USA and former contributor to the Daily Wire, was once a common sense conservative pundit who called out liberals for their race baiting, virtue signaling, and disastrous policies, has turned into a raving antisemite.
“You know, I’ve spent my entire lifetime separating the right from the kooks.”
That isn’t some quote from a liberal media talking head; it’s from an American conservative. In fact, it’s a quote attributed to who could not insensibly be called the American conservative, the man without which American conservatism wouldn’t exist: William F. Buckley Jr.
It gets trotted out from time to time by the liberal media to insinuate that some mainstream conservative really is a kook and that St. William of Sharon, Connecticut, would have extirpated them posthaste. But Buckley did have to wrestle with real political nutters in the nascent years of the movement: conspiracy theorists, polybigots and, most noxiously, the anti-Semitic element.
After a magazine he was an associate editor for, The American Mercury, was bought out by anti-Semitic interests, he left and founded his own journal of conservatism, National Review. Not only that, he railed against the Mercury and those who continued to spew its bile, expressly forbidding NR contributors from writing for the Mercury.
There were other examples, as well, but the fact is this: Any movement, and ours is the American right, needs to prune its extremists and kooks — which is why we need to talk about the errant branch that is Candace Owens and the masterful pruning job being done by a very skillful gardener, Dennis Prager.
Owens, you may recall, left her most recent major employer of note, the Daily Wire, earlier this year. The exact circumstances of her departure and how voluntary it was are unclear, although it’s fairly certain that she would have been fired had she not left.
The reason behind the departure was straightforward: Not only had Owens become an extremely vocal critic of Israel in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas, she consistently did so in a way that was so extremely erroneous that the only logical conclusion was that, to her, there was something different about the Jewish state than other nation-states that kooks spread random falsehoods about.
……..The month after the attack, she subtweeted about Israel by quoting Matthew 5:9-11 and Matthew 6:24 (“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God,” etc.) followed by a three-word phrase, which quickly gained traction among all the wrong sorts of people seeking to besmirch the Lord and Savior by dragging him down into the anti-Semitic mire: “Christ is King.”
Owens has since become more outré than that, however, accusing Jewish people of consuming the blood of Christian children; of being a “pedophilic” religion; of being responsible for transgenderism among children because of Sigmund Freud’s study of the Kabbala, a book of Jewish mysticism; and of influencing Joseph Stalin because of the false rumor that Stalin’s wife was Jewish.
And that’s just all in one interview, according to the Jerusalem Post. Consider, this bizarreness all took place over the course of a single conversation. One almost suspects she dropped several tabs of acid with swastikas on the blotter paper before the sit-down.
Her latest anti-Semitic bugaboo is airing the conspiracy theory that the founders of Israel weren’t really the Jewish people, but “Frankists” — followers of Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Jewish apostate whose beliefs incorporated fragmentary elements of Judaism, Christianity, and (mostly) the belief that he was the real messiah the Jewish people had been waiting for.
This all went down during a September livestream in which she warned, according to Uinterview, “Anything happens to me, blame the Zionists. Like, one thousand percent blame the Zionists.”
Mr. Prager, a conservative pundit who is Jewish, had some serious issues with this — and debunked her nonsense entirely in a 15-page letter.
Prager’s letter , HERE.
………But unlike the left, we rid ourselves of our extremists.
Part of it is because we have to; we don’t get free passes for anti-Semites among our ranks, like the left does with Ilhan Omar and Buckley’s bête noire, Gore Vidal. However, part of it is also that conservatives need to stand by Israel in its hour of need. That includes not giving air to those who would undermine it with vicious, obvious falsehoods. Candace Owens is full of them, ready to emerge at any moment, and they need to be constantly and aggressively rebutted at the moment they drop from her poisoned mouth.
Newsflash for Candace: Israel holds a prominent place in the Christian bible. Christianity is tied to Judaism. Jesus Christ was a Jew. Even though Christianity gradually diverged from Judaism, the relationship between Christians and Jews goes back thousands of years.
The gospels say that Jesus had a reputation as a Jewish rabbi (Mark 14:45; John 1:38). Peter (in Mark 9:5) and Mary Magdalene (in John 20:16) both referred to Jesus as “Rabbi.”
Moreover, the Jewish ruler Nicodemus thought that this title was appropriate for Jesus: “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him” (John 3:2). Elsewhere, we see Jesus referred to as “Teacher” (Mark 5:35) According to John 1:38, Rabbi and Teacher are synonymous titles. He also attended synagogue.
Jesus speaks with a Samaritan woman, John 4:19-26:
“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
The heinous atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent Jews in Israel should be enough to convince people that they are bloodthirsty and brutal.
On 7 Oct 2023, Hamas terrorists slaughtered innocent men, women, and children then took dozens of hostages. They raped and murdered women before parading their bodies in the streets. Israel has shown them no mercy.
By the way, until 07 Oct, there was a ceasefire. Israel had stopped returning fire into Gaza after years of being attacked.
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