Get Out! Another Country Bans Candace Owens Amid Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories
Candace Owens testified before the House Oversight and National Security Committees on Sept. 19, 2019. | Source: CSPAN screenshot
Get out!
This is effectively the message that yet one more country has delivered to the hateful conservative pundit Candace Owens, whose amplified antisemitism is being increasingly not tolerated on a global level.
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On Thursday, New Zealand announced that it was banning Owens, 35, from admittance in the South Pacific nation, in advance of a speaking engagement there.
“News of the ruling came weeks after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II,” the Associated Press reported.
More from the Associated Press:
Owens had promised Australian and New Zealand audiences a discussion of free speech and her Christian faith when she announced the speaking tour in August.
But Australian officials banned her from the country in October, with Immigration Minister Tony Burke telling reporters Owens “has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” citing her remarks about the Holocaust and about Muslims.
“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else,” Burke said. Australian Jewish groups had urged officials to bar her from the country.
The apparent common denominator for prohibiting Owens’ presence has been antisemitism. However, New Zealand did not provide an official reason for banning her from breaching its borders.
Candace Owens and New Zealand
New Zealand is, of course, where one of the alleged suspects in deadly shooting attacks on two mosques in 2019 left behind what the Associated Press called “a 74-page anti-immigrant manifesto in which he explained who he was and his reasoning for his actions. He said he considered it a terrorist attack.”
It was in that reported manifesto that Owens was cited as “the person that has influenced me above all,” according to an apparent partial transcript posted to Twitter, now X, by journalist Ian Miles Cheong.
Candace Owens and antisemitism
The concerns about Candace Owens and antisemitism are valid and longstanding.
To put it mildly, Candace Owens loves Hitler comparisons.
Not only has she downplayed the Capitol riot on numerous occasions and blasted Democrats for their treatment of those charged with crimes, but she’s also even gone as far as comparing the party’s actions to that of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
Owens has maintained this type of position that appears to be particularly sympathetic to Hitler since at least 2019, when she said during a speech that “Hitler just wanted to make Germany great.”
At the time, Owens was speaking at a London event to launch the British chapter of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth group led by unabashed racist Charlie Kirk. Owens used language that mirrors Donald Trump’s controversial MAGA movement.
“When we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. He was a national socialist,” Owens told the group before adding: “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine.”
She didn’t stop there.
“The problem is he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany,” Owens continued. “He wanted to globalize, he wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way. To me, that’s not nationalism. So in thinking about how it could go bad down the line, I don’t really have an issue with nationalism, I really don’t.”
The statements, from which Owens unsuccessfully tried to distance herself, suggest that she has no problem with the millions of Jews who Hitler and his army of Nazis slaughtered because, according to her, he was just trying to make Germany “great.”
Portions of that speech were played that same year by Democratic California Congressman Ted Lieu during a House Judiciary Committee on white nationalism.
It was likely in that context that New Zealand banned Owens from entering the country.
Could the trend catch on with other nations?
If so, it likely won’t be in the U.S., where Owens is free to share such antisemitic and anti-Black rhetoric relatively unscathed.
This is America.
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