Member of UK House of Lords distances himself from Catholic convert’s remarks
The father-in-law of social media influencer and celebrity Catholic convert Candace Owens publicly rebuked his celebrity daughter-in-law for her escalating diatribes against the Jews.
Lord Michael Farmer, a committed Christian who is a member of the House of Lords and an outspoken advocate of persecuted Christians, published a thread on the social media platform X on Monday, days after Owens went on a widely-watched internet rant claiming that Zionists are not the original Jews but are actually demon-worshipers.
“In view of public comments from a high-profile member of my family, I want to put my own views on antisemitism and Israel’s current military campaign in Gaza on public record,” Farmer wrote in a typically-understated English tone, noting that “the best man at my wedding and life-long friend was Jewish.”
Distancing himself from Owens’ remarks in which she claimed that modern Israel founded by the Rothschilds was a safe haven for pedophiles, the high-profile aristocrat, who is also one of Britain’s wealthiest businessmen and is worth nearly 150 million pounds, noted that the “sadism” of Jew-hatred “lay dormant in the heart of everyone.”
“As a teenager, growing up in the wake of WW2, I became very aware of the cruelty meted out, before and during that conflict, against Jewish people – because they were Jewish,” Farmer wrote. “I found it impossible to comprehend how humans could, intentionally, be as cruel as possible to others.”
“Whilst the general opinion in Britain was that it would never happen here, even then I thought ‘Really?’ and sensed it could happen anywhere,” he emphasized, recounting how, as a young man, he had “worked with Jewish people in the city: the boss in one of my first jobs had come to Britain on a Kindertransport.”
“I often experienced kindness and thoughtfulness from Jewish friends as well, at a time when I had few close relationships,” Farmer recollected.
ARISTOCRAT CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY
Narrating the testimony of his own Christian conversion, the former treasurer of the Conservative Party, revealed how he became a Christian in his mid-30s “and became aware of the latent rebellion in my own heart against my creator.”
“The Bible says we all need a Savior because we all fall short of the goodness we aspire to and expect from others. We aspire to goodness because we are made in God’s image, and he is good,” Farmer explained, in an X thread that has had garnered over a million views at the time of this writing.
“Jesus Christ is God’s son. He came into space and time as a Jewish man, he fulfilled Jewish law, his mother was Jewish, and his closest followers were ordinary Jewish men and women,” the aristocrat, who has preached from the pulpit of St. Helen’s Church in Bishopsgate, London, noted. “He came to save us from the consequences of our rebellion.”
ISRAEL’S EXISTENTIAL THREAT
Farmer said he was “very aware of the human heart and that no one group always acts with perfect intent and motivation,” acknowledging, “that does not mean there is never an aggressor who needs to be repelled,” especially when Israel was “murderously attacked on its soil in one of the cruelest and most callous pogroms in history.”
Praising Israel as “a rare example of a democracy in the Middle East, a liberal state governed by the rule of law,” Farmer noted that “the plight of civilians in Gaza is also utterly appalling but I see Israel has little option but to fight its enemy where it chooses to hide itself – in tunnels under key infrastructure and behind innocent civilians.”
“We cannot forget the large number of innocent hostages that were taken: many have died, and some are still missing. Israel faces an existential threat as Hamas, the terrorist organization, has stated their intention to destroy it,” he added, concluding that he is “the Christian Deputy Chair of the Council for Christians and Jews, which was founded in 1942 as a bulwark against antisemitism.”
OWENS DENOUNCED BY MEDIA COLLEAGUES
The conservative podcaster, who was earlier fired from the Daily Wire, has been denounced by several high-profile personalities for going public with her Jew-hatred.
“Sadly, something seems to have gone wrong with Candace, so that she is now engaging in and spreading the most vile & vicious Jew-hating conspiracy theories, some of them dating back to the depths of ignorance from the Middle Ages!” award-winning Fox News contributor Sara Carter lamented in a statement on X. “Her false ideology spreads like a deadly cancer.”
“I condemn Candace Owens, I condemn her disgraceful fall to espousing pure antisemitism, and I know there is no room in the conservative movement for an antisemite like Owens. I call upon any conservative individual or organization who still holds any ties to Owens to similarly condemn and cut off Owens,” Carter pleaded.
Souls and Liberty has contacted the London Oratory in Brompton, London, the famous parish where Owens was confirmed and received into full communion with the Catholic Church in April, asking if the priests had made any attempt to address Owens’ anti-semitism which was causing scandal and bringing Catholicism into disrepute.
REVIVAL OF ‘CATHOLIC’ ANTI-SEMITISM
Anti-Semitism continues to infect a significant section of the traditionalist Catholic movement who reject the magisterium of Vatican II and cite pre-Vatican II documents and popes to support their hatred of Jews and their rejection of the state of Israel.
Mark Weitzman in his book Jews and Judaism in the Political Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists traces the continuity in recent Catholic Jew-hatred from Coughlin to elements in the Society of Saint Pius X, including the Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson – who spewed his anti-Semitic bile in the SSPX for eighteen years.
While Pope Paul IV’s bull, titled Cum nimis absurdum (1555), declared that it is “absurd and utterly unacceptable that the Jews, who due to their own guilt were condemned by God to eternal slavery” should be allowed to coexist with Catholics, Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate in an epochal U-turn, turned the Jew “from enemy to brother,” using the Latin superlative carissimi to describe the Jews as “beloved by God.”
The seeds for modern Catholic anti-Semitism were sown before Vatican II, as has been documented in the case of the popular pro-Nazi radio preacher Fr. Charles Coughlin, who defended the atrocities of Kristallnacht. Coughlin is estimated to have reached 40 million listeners during the 1930s. Church authorities helped get him kicked off US airwaves, at the urgent request of Catholic bishops in Germany.
Owens is one of the conference speakers at the forthcoming Catholic Identity Conference in September, along with her husband George Farmer, Bishop Joseph Strickland and Bishop Athanasius Schneider. The conference is being organized by traditionalist Catholic Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant.
In May 2023, at least 18 speakers pulled out from the “Hope is Fuel” conference organized by Catholic podcaster Patrick Coffin, after learning that it was featuring E. Michael Jones, a Catholic author who is known for his extensive anti-Semitic writings.
In a March 22 tweet, Jones ranted in a tone reminiscent of the now-abolished Good Friday prayer for “perfidious” Jews: “As Holy Week approaches, we need to understand that it is time to take sides.”
“You now must decide whether you are on the side of Jesus Christ, the Logos incarnate, or on the side of those who killed the Logos Incarnate and have been subversive revolutionaries ever since,” Jones added. “If I were speaking to someone who was Jewish, I would say, ‘You killed Christ.'”
Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral. This article is cross-posted with the author’s permission from Souls & Liberty.
TMJ says
Candace Owens & Megan Markle, the embarrassment of America
Wellington says
Something very wrong has happened to Candace Owens. This much I know: No conservative worth their salt cares any longer what she has to say (except to refute her) so off-the-rails has she become.
Westman says
What does the media say when when Muslims express their antisemitism in a vociferous manner? Oh yes, “mental illness”. After listening to her strange video about the history of Israeli Jews it is obvious that Candace has caught the full-blown disease.
Dwayne Oxford says
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
The stoning of Stephen.
James Lincoln says
Not sure what has happened to Candace Owens.
Or maybe she was always anti-Semitic – but formerly found that it was useful to hide it.
Michael Skok says
Why don’t somebody ask her? Maybe she was paid off.
Bob Murray says
Read Babylon Mystery Religion, by Woodrow, to learn the basis of Catholicism, a synthesis of Christian doctrine with existing pagan religions, after the (supposed) conversion of Constantine. I left Catholicism long ago for the simple purity of New Testament teaching, and haven’t looked back. All true Christians understand God’s love for the Jewish race, and how they were His key vessel for implementing His plan of salvation for all mankind, through the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Daniel Bielak says
I think that Candace Owens was personally hurt when she was pregnant and heard Ben Shapiro calling her actions during the aftermath of October 7th disgraceful. I think she was and is completely ignorant about Israel and the war being waged against Israel, and I think she had been, and is, misinformed with verbal and visual lies of omission and commission about Israel’s situation by the Western mainstream media. And I think that she holds some religious antisemitic ideas from her upbringing. I think that those are the reasons that she has gone full antisemite. I think that someone should provide her with essential facts about Israel and the war being waged against Israel. I think that It would be good if she would listen to presentations, talks, and interviews, by, and read articles by, Dr. Francisco Gil-White, and listen to talks by, and read books by, Robert Spencer, and read articles by Hugh Fitzgerald, and watch official Fatah / PLO / PA television translated by Palestinian Media Watch and the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
WHAT IS PALESTINE? WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS? by Dr. Francisco Gil-White
youtube.com/watch?v=p_E_VXuzTZI
THE NAZIS AND THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT, by Dr. Francisco Gil-White
youtube.com/watch?v=_abGQY-1qoM
Articles by Dr. Francisco Gil-White
hirhome.com/israel/guide-israel.htm
franciscogilwhite.substack.com
Videos by Dr. Francisco Gil-White
youtube.com/@MANAGEMENTOFREALITY
Robert Spencer on the Deception at the Heart of the Middle East Peace Process, LA, Dec. 9, 2019
youtube.com/watch?v=A3EfqNMcIzE
“The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process,” by Robert Spencer
amazon.com/Palestinian-Delusion-Catastrophic-History-Process/dp/164293254X/
Articles by Hugh Fitzgerald
jihadwatch.org/author/laszlo
Palestinian Media Watch
youtube.com/@palwatch
palwatch.org
MEMRI | Middle East Media Research Institute
memri.org
Daniel Bielak says
Correction: … pregnant or post-pregnant, and, therefore, emotionally vulnerable …
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Don’t forget that she started out as a Leftist, and therefore it shouldn’t be surprising that that aspect of Leftism has resurfaced in her. Kimberley Klacic was right in her criticism of her
bill says
The nascent Christian church was mainly made up of Jews and was first persecuted by the Romans and later post Constantine, supported mightily by Rome. So they could obviously not blame the Romans for the alleged crucifixion, so they chose to blame the non Christian Jews. The Romans were the killers and the Jews the scapegoats.
Hoi Polloi says
She was only occasionally on my radar and seemed to speak common sense, but now she’s becoming part of some very dangerous voices from Catholicism. I read a business site that has many Catholic commenters who often now descend into antisemitism in response to just about any topic. They’re proponents of this view that there are no real Jews in Israel, only later pretenders to Jewish heritage, and therefore Israel must not be defended. They go further and say that Hitler tried to do the right thing.
For what it’s worth, they hate Protestants just as virulently. They hold the view that all Protestants are Satanists.
FYI says
The Jews
“We Jews know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
John 4 v 22
Jesus Christ
Israel
“MY LAND”
Jeremiah 2:7
“You do not own it.It belongs to God{..YHWH,God of Moses..}
Leviticus 25:23
It’s not “allah” of the kaaba cult’s land is it?
There is catastrophe waiting for any nation that tries to destroy Jerusalem{Zechariah chapters 12-14}
I think the Jews are entitled to their homeland.
They have been in Israel for a long time.Where else were the Jews to return to?
Even the koran CONFIRMS that the Jews {“the children of Israel”}:koran 17:104 shall dwell in the land.allah isNOT the Biblical./Torah God of Moses:allah is the god of the kaaba cult .Yet even allah accepts that the Jews have the right to “dwell in the land”.Hizbollah/hamas seek to destroy it but then muslims do not actually study their own koran properly:they just quote from it
C McG says
I have admired Candace Owens but haven’t kept up with her for past year or so and I’m shocked to hear she is judged as being “anti – Semitic”. Given her previous coherence, erudition and good sense I shall investigate for myself what she has actually said that she is deemed thus.
VRN says
Has anyone addressed the behavior that she brought up in the article? Anal rape of prisoners?
My understanding is that she is criticizing this behavior. We should not confuse the criticism of a behavior with the criticism of a race/religion.
Kevin Kraemer says
Well, with the catholic church becoming Apostate, she has aligned herself knowingly or not with the great Whore. Even the elect can be deceived. Repent and come out of her. Know the True Way of the LORD thennthe times of refreshing will come
Everard Crump says
All gods are man made.
somehistory says
No. Man is God-made. Many just refuse to acknowledge that fact.
Teresa says
I don’t know what happened to Candace. I condemn her anti-semitic rants.
Jesus is Jewish, and he gave us the Catholic Church. He is the Father of our church.
I cannot be a Christian without our Jewish brothers and sisters.
We need to support Israel and the Jewish people.