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Candace Owens is an obsessive antisemite, on a par with Roger Waters, who describes her animus toward Jews as merely the result of her justified anguish over the terrible things Israel has been doing, she claims, in Gaza. It is hard to see how what goes on in Gaza leads to the conclusion that all those stories about Dr. Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz must be false, or that stories about the Holocaust are greatly exaggerated, or why the war in Gaza could lead Ms. Owens to conclude that a “Zionist media empire” controls so much of what we read or hear — in which case, how is it that we read and hear so much by Candace Owens? Why hasn’t that “Zionist media empire” managed to silence her?
But Australia’s Immigration Minister, Tony Burke — not a member of any Jewish conspiracy, we should note — has denied her a visa to enter Australia, declaring that she would only “incite discord in almost every direction.” Australia is best served, according to Burke, when Candace Owens is elsewhere.
More on the execrable Candace Owens, now unable to spread her message of antisemitic hate to Australia, that is before live audiences in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, as well as to those who will not be attending, but eavesdropping on her talks from such places as Botany Bay, Parramatta, Never Never, and Alice Springs, can be found here: “Candace Owens Slams ‘Zionist Media Empire’ After Being Denied Visa to Australia for Comments About Jews, Holocaust,” by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, October 30, 2024. If you need proof of Ms. Owens’ antisemitism, the evidence can be found, in her own words, just below:
…Owens has made a series of antisemitic and controversial comments about Israel, Jews, and the Holocaust on social media and her podcast, as well as in interviews. She has downplayed the atrocities of the Holocaust and said medical experiments by Mengele performed on Jews during World War II sounded “like bizarre propaganda.” She has also said she believes the Star of David originated from an evil pagan deity and claimed the US “is being held hostage by Israel.”
Owens has also suggested Israel was behind the assassination of former US President John F Kennedy and called Judaism a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons … child sacrifice,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. She has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews and Zionists and in September falsely claimed that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late spiritual leader of the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement who was also known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, “preached Jewish supremacism.”
Burke made it clear that he would reject Owens’s application for a visa even before she applied for one. He said in August, “tickets to these events are selling for $100. I hope she has a good refund policy. There hasn’t been an application for a visa, but if there is, the brief will come to me personally. My opposition to antisemitism and Islamophobia has always been on the record. I have clear legal powers to knock back a visa to anyone who would incite discord.”
During Tuesday’s episode of her podcast, Owens denied Burke’s claims about her inciting “discord” and said “of course it’s not true.”
“Nothing said is true … All of this is just to make a statement to try to present me as some very scary person akin to Adolf Hitler and we’ve seen this before,” she claimed. She then talked about being penalized for not staying silent about how the ongoing Israel-Hamas war is affecting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“The determined punishment for me for not turning a blind eye to this, for not being a coward and pretending that I just don’t see it, has been harassment; has been that I’m going to take away your money, and I’m going to ruin your reputation and I’m going to have journalists who are Zionists try to assassinate your character online,” she said. “I have accepted that because I think that is a way easier punishment to accept than what these [Palestinian] children are accepting on a daily basis.”
Tickets to her events were selling for $100? Goodness, this hate-filled cretin stood to make tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars from her appearances at five Australian cities. Thank heaven Tony Burke has the power to deny her a visa because she almost certainly would cause “discord.” I’m sure there are audiences aplenty elsewhere eager to lap up her antisemitic message. Why not a tour of the Middle East and North Africa, with live performances in Tehran, Tabriz, Meshhad, Riyadh, Jeddah, Baghdad, Damascus, Beirut, and Algiers? And if asks for it, I’m sure, Al Jazeera would give Candace Owens a regular spot as a commentator on world affairs. Don’t worry about Candace Owens. She’ll clean up.
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