Candace Owens Has Descended Into Madness

Candace Owens admits she has become “obsessed with Jews.” She started out her public life exhibiting an anti-Israel animus that over time has exploded into a full-blown case of virulent antisemitism. Her social media posts are not different from what used to appear in Der Stürmer. The evidence of her antisemitic madness can be found here: “Candace Owens Admits She Has Become ‘Obsessed’ With Jews,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, November 6, 2025:

American political commentator Candace Owens, who often uses her podcast to promote conspiracy theories against Israel and the Jewish people, admitted this week that she has become “obsessed” with Jews.

Owens on Monday wrote a post on the X social media platform that accused an unnamed group of people of plotting to “infiltrate” Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, “control” the US president, and “overthrow” Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and pro-Israel advocate who was assassinated in September.

Why would these mysterious people, to whom she refers without naming them, but we all know that she means us to understand she is talking about those “all-powerful Jews,” need to “control” President Trump, who has always been sua sponte a supporter of Israel? And why would Jews want to kill Charlie Kirk, the most pro-Israel figure among Christian evangelicals? Owens claims Kirk was turning on Israel and so Jews decided he had to be killed. There is not a scintilla of evidence of any change in Kirk’s deeply sympathetic view of Israel.

“Why are you so obsessed with Jews?” a user commented on Owens’ post.

“Because they are so obsessed with me. Feeling is mutual now,” Owens replied, seemingly admitting that she has developed a fixation on Jews since parting ways with The Daily Wire media company last year amid controversy over her comments regarding Jews and Israel.

The user responded to Owens, arguing that”to the contrary, Candice, you were loved and respected by almost all the Jews including myself … [but] you went on your own downward spiral and, instead of stopping to rectify it, you blamed everyone around you and here we are today, with no going back.”

Owens’ initial X post did not explicitly mention Jews, Israel, or pro-Israel Americans, but she has repeatedly suggested, without any evidence, that Israel was involved in Kirk’s murder. Tyler Robinson, 22, has been charged for murdering Kirk and potentially faces the death penalty. He was romantically involved with his transgender roommate, and prosecutors have reportedly argued that Kirk’s anti-trans rhetoric was a key factor that allegedly led him to shoot the Turning Point USA founder.

In other words, Tyler Robinson, who killed Kirk, was angry with him for his anti-trans statements, because of his own romantic attachment to his transgender roommate. Israel had nothing to do with Robinson’s killing of Kirk.

However, Owens began to speculate that the official story of the killing was actually just a cover-up for a plot by the US government and Israel. She claimed that Kirk began to turn against Israel in the months leading up to his killing, and that he felt afraid because he was being pressured by Jewish donors.

The crazier her claims, the more she excites, and expands, her audience. The more visitors she attracts, the more revenue her podcasts bring in. Staid, sober, intelligent commentary does not bring in the benjamins. Nuttiness does.

“About 48 hours before Charlie Kirk died, Charlie informed people at Turning Point, as well as Jewish donors and a rabbi, that he had no choice but to abandon the pro-Israel cause outright,” Owens claimed on her podcast. “He just, 48 hours later, conveniently caught a bullet to the throat, before our on-stage reunion could happen.”

Nonsense on stilts. As Josh Hammer explains, Charlie Kirk “was blowing off steam in a private group chat setting.” Hammer said he spoke with Kirk shortly after this, and “Charlie sought out our advice for how to better communicate the Israel issue on campus so as to be most effective with a younger Gen Z audience.” Hammer added: “Donors have every right to withhold donations, and organization CEOs/chairmen have every right to then be upset when donors withhold those donations. The notion that Charlie Kirk was ‘turning’ on his career-long friendships with the Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel — as opposed to (sarcastically!) blowing off steam in a private group chat setting — is an egregious lie and is belied by the facts.”

Owens also has alleged that 12 Israeli phones were on the campus the day Kirk got shot and suggested that it is a reason to believe Israel may have been behind it. Users on social media have pointed out that Kirk’s assassination occurred at a university campus with many students from dozens of countries, including Israel, which would likely explain the phones, if her claims were true….

Now how would Candace Owens know which phones those present at Kirk’s last appearance were holding? How would she have been able to identify them as “Israeli phones”? Do they have special markings? And why is she the only one to have made such a bizarre claim? There were police at Kirk’s event. None of them have suggested there were a dozen, or even one, “Israeli phone” being held by members of the audience.

Owens, like so many deep antisemites, has descended into madness. Is she doing it for the money, or does she really believe the absurdities she trades in? I think it may be both.