The antisemitic unraveling of Candace Owens

Over the last year or so, Candace Owens has made an increasing number of deeply concerning comments about the Jewish people and Israel, leading to the question: What kind of antisemitic Kool-Aid is she drinking? In light of her most recent comments, the answer is: One of the worst kinds of antisemitic Kool-Aid, the kind that espouses the most ridiculous (and malicious) conspiracy theories. Her statements have now become completely unhinged, leading to bizarre headlines like this on an antisemitic website: “Candace Owens digs in, calling out Israel’s Frankist pedo-protection cult.” What?

In her rant, Owens informs us that the horrors of the Holocaust did not help give birth to the modern State of Israel. Instead, many moons before this, Catholics and Christians went missing around Passover, and when their bodies were found, “they were able to trace them back to the Jews.”

But, she tells us, she is not repeating the infamous blood libel, which alleges that Jews kidnap and kill Christians during Passover, using their blood to bake matzoh. Not at all! These people weren’t actually Jews at all. “They were Frankists,” Owens says, referring to a sex cult led by the notorious Polish Jew Jacob Frank (1726-1791).

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