🚨 For the last week, my former colleague at the Daily Wire, @andrewklavan, has been spreading some inaccuracies about me that I view to be disparaging to my character.
So let’s slowly unpack his claims here publicly…
Andrew Klavan, in an attempt to explain why “Christ is King” can be antisemitic offered this on a podcast about me:
Wow! That sounds crazy! Candace Owens hates Jews so much that she’s randomly accusing some fine young Jew of drinking Christian blood!
Crazy!
And also untrue and completely removed from some important context…
1) I never reposted anything. I certainly did LIKE a tweet, however.
What is the appropriate context? The Jew Andrew Klavan is referring to is Rabbi Shmuley who spent TWO YEARS attacking ME.
No one, (not a single one of my colleagues included) defended or said what he was doing was wrong.
After two years I told the public about Rabbi Shmuley’s nonstop harassment plus showed proof of his threats.
What did Rabbi Shmuley do in return? He libeled me harder.
He accused me of directing my followers to murder Jews.
I’m not kidding. This is what he tweeted:
The rabbi was clearly lying. The person who messaged him privately in that correspondence did so BEFORE I had ever informed the public about his harassment.
It was quite literally a smear.
Gratefully, someone called him out on this lie by citing the date of the message:
That is the tweet I liked. I liked some random person on the internet who very quickly debunked the horrendous lie that I would ever send any person to threaten to murder Jews.
Now that you have the full context, please revisit Andrew’s remarks about my antisemitism.
I recently learned that antisemitism is unlike any hate in the world—because the definition mutates.
Today’s current definition seems to be: A Christian defending herself from a predatory, dishonest Rabbi by liking a tweet for the OBVIOUS reason that it debunked his lie.
It really is nothing short of amazing that given all of the threats that Rabbi Shmuley made against me—what seemingly disturbed Andrew (or at least what moved him to action) was my unacceptable “like” of a tweet which underscored the Rabbi’s dishonesty.
Really something.
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