Stop listening to Candace Owens

OPINION:

Last week, I posted the following to all my Facebook “friends”: “To all my followers, I’ve been asked by a few of you why some of your comments about Candace Owens have disappeared from my Facebook threads. The answer is simple. I have deleted them.”

I went on to say, “My Facebook page is akin to my living room or kitchen table, and I will not let my house be used to foment antisemitism. Period. Full stop.”

I then concluded, “Here’s my bottom line — If you’re prone to support the rancid Jew-baiting bigotry of people like Ms. Owens, I will block you. I don’t apologize for this. I’ll say it again, this is my ‘house’ and I will not let rude conspiracy peddling gossips spoil a party that they weren’t invited to attend in the first place.”

Why do I feel this way? It’s quite simple. Ms. Owens is either a shameless grifter who will say just about anything to get more clicks, or she is a flat-out moonbat. Candidly, I am not sure which, but either way, her antisemitic frothing at the mouth has no place in polite society.

Here are just a few examples:

Ms. Owens has openly said Israel is an “occult nation.”

She has implied that the Star of David on Israel’s flag symbolizes pagan idolatry and the worship of Moloch.

She has claimed that Judaism is a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in … child sacrifice.”

While still talking about Jews, Ms. Owens has argued that she is “waking people up to the fact that pedophiles are in power.”

Ms. Owens has equated Jews with Marxists who want to “rewrite history.” She has accused Israel of being behind the assassination of President Kennedy, and she has said that Israel has “taken over” the United States.

In a live broadcast on X titled “The Truth About Zionism,” Ms. Owens said, “There is … a group of people in [the United States] who can just keep lying on people … trying to ruin people’s lives, and there’s just no accountability because then you just get to flip it and say oh, it’s antisemitism.”

Later in this same broadcast, Ms. Owens said Israel had advance knowledge about 9/11, thereby implying that the Jews were somehow complicit in these attacks.

Ms. Owens has overtly diminished the atrocities of the Third Reich by saying, “[Zionists] … have polluted American minds to believe that we must defend Israel out of morality and the evils of the Holocaust.”

She has dismissed the horrors of Josef Mengele by asserting, “Some of the stories, [of his] experimentation on innocent people … sound completely absurd.”

She has openly defended the vulgar antisemitism of Kanye West, where he actually said he was going “death con 3 on Jewish people.”

That’s not all.

In addition to her rabid dislike of Jews, Ms. Owens also traffics in a host of other aberrant and nutty ideas. She has suggested that dinosaur bones are not real and claimed that the fossils on display in museums around the world have been manufactured for some conspiratorial purpose. She has called all of science “a pagan faith.” (Forget the fact that Galileo, Newton, Kepler, Boyle, Pascal, Pasteur and a host of others were all committed Christians.)

She also has suggested denial of the moon landing by saying, “[If it’s real], why have we not gone back?” (Spoiler alert: We have gone back. Six times to be exact. Twelve different men, from multiple missions, have walked on the moon’s surface.)

So, to those who claim that Ms. Owens “is simply criticizing the state of Israel and its leadership,” I offer this.

No, she is not!

Ms. Owens has trafficked in the Jew-baiting lie of blood libel. She has dismissed the butchery of Adolf Hitler’s angel of death. She has implied that Jewish people, such as conservative author and commentator Josh Hammer, might be complicit in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. She has perpetuated the loony idea that a sex cult called the “Frankists” established the modern state of Israel.

She has routinely peddled nonsense that is more aligned with “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” than with any semblance of factual history. She denies the moon landings, and she has literally said, “I’m not a round-earther [and] I’m not a flat-earther,” thus implying that flat-earth theory might have its merits. (My land, has the woman never flown in an airplane?)

Ms. Owens is either a divisive charlatan who is laughing all the way to the bank, or she is a conspiratorial nut. Whichever it is, no thoughtful human being should be platforming her nonsense.

• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.