Candice Owens’ transformation from a mainstream right-wing commentator to an unhinged antisemite and conspiracy theorist has been the subject of the kind of derisions and mockery befitting such behavior. She’s claimed, for starters, that Judaism is a “pedophiliac religion” which “believes in child sacrifice”, and whose rabbis drink the blood of Christians, and that Judaism seeks world domination.
She also accused Zionists of being “psychopaths”, suggested that Theodor Herzl set up Israel as a haven for pedophiles and said that if she’s ever killed for speaking her mind, it would be by the Zionists – in rants that often include crude homophobia.
This history of the antisemitic lust libel about Jews’ alleged sexual perversion, which is one of Owens’ obsessions, was dissected by CAMERA’s Jonah Cohen, here.
Owens also falsely alleged that Stalin and Lenin were Jews, and were part of the global “Jewish cabal”, that Israel “hast taken over the US”, revived the myth that Israel had advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and even accused Israel of assassinating John F. Kennedy. She said that Israel may have been founded by Frankists – a heretical Jewish cult which claimed the blood libel was true, thus affirming the antisemitic belief of Jews’ need for Christian blood.
Owens also dismissed the sadistic human experimentation conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele at Auschwitz as “bizarre propaganda”.
When not targeting Jews, she’s gone on crazy and often incoherent rants about the LGBT community, alleging – in the context of what she claims is a global pedophile conspiracy – that Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Vladimir Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron are all gay, and, even more bizarrely, that the French President’s wife, Bridgett, is “a trans man who molested him when he was a child”.
Then, there are conspiracy theories which, though just as insane as the others, don’t have a political dimension, such as her doubt over whether the moon landing actually happened.
Despite the fact that Owens has become a laughing stock, and that her own father-in-law, Lord Farmer, publicly distanced himself from her views about Jews, Piers Morgan legitimised her by broadcasting a ‘debate’ between her and the LA-based Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to address, as the show framed it, their “personal feud” and their “differences” about Israel.
During the one hour exchange, Owens, who called Boteach “evil” and “demonic”, introduced more lies and hate: she falsely accused the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who Boteach said was his mentor, of “Jewish supremacism” and someone who hated all non-Jews; that, after Oct. 7th, “Zionists in the media forced us to support Israel”; the lie that 18,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have “murdered” by Israel, and evoked the hateful “Synagogues of Satan” trope popularized by Louis Farrakhan to refer to Jews and Judaism.
Later, during the debate, she blamed “Zionists and Zionist organisations” for the vow by Australia’s immigration Minister Tony Burke to deny her a visa ahead of her scheduled tour of the nation. Burke, and others within the government who support the ban, have cited her conspiracy-tinged attacks on not just Jews, but on Muslims and trans people as well.
Except for stating his disagreement with Owens’ claim about Bridgett Macron’s sexuality, Morgan barely challenged her conspiracy theories and Jew hatred. In the one case where he did push back, regarding Mengele’s experiments on Jews Auschwitz, he failed to call her out when she completely distorted the words she uttered on video (which you can see in this tweet).
In fact, later in the show, when Boteach again brought up Owens’ denial of the Nazi experiments on concentration camp inmates, Morgan defended her, citing her comments earlier in the show – which as we noted, completely misrepresented her actual prior comments on the subject.
Morgan also didn’t say a word when, after being challenged by Boteach on her accusations about Judaism being pedophiliac religion, Owens similarly lied about her past comments on the issue (which you can see at 1:25 into this clip).
At the end of the debate, Morgan said that he thought the exchange was “illuminating”. However, the interview was notable not for what it revealed, but for what it concealed.
Just as Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview recently with anti-Semite and Nazi apologist Darryl Cooper legitimised the self-proclaimed historian’s antisemitic and ahistorical rhetoric, Morgan, who clearly seemed more sympathetic to Owens than Boteach, effectively normalised her medieval anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
Though Boteach wasn’t able to prove, on the spot, every one of Owens’ “alleged” comments about Judaism and Israel, Morgan could have, of course, asked his staff, prior to the interview, to fact-check them. If he had decided to do so, and played the clips in question during the show, the interview could have been much different than the ‘he said, she said’ framing, revealing to his viewers the ugly reality of Owens’ delusional and toxic beliefs about Jews.
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Utterly bonkers. Morgan needs to explain why he invited her