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Candace Owens Downplays Holocaust Atrocities, Calls Infamous Nazi Doctor’s Experiments ‘Bizarre Propaganda’
Candace Owens speaks at CPAC on March 2, 2023. Photo: Lev Radin via Reuters Connect
Candace Owens, a prominent provocateur and media personality, has recently promoted a series of talking points downplaying the atrocities of the Holocaust, sparking fresh accusations of antisemitism.
Last Tuesday, Owens claimed in an episode of her podcast that the media smears Nazi Germany by depicting the regime as the “greatest evil” to ever exist on earth. She then suggested that the supposed “ethnic cleansing” of 12 million Germans as a result of World War II was a greater crime than the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
Lamenting that Americans have supposedly been “indoctrinated” into hating Adolph Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, Owens, a right-wing commentator, appeared to suggest that young children should not receive Holocaust education in schools.
“I started recognizing these Soviet tactics of introducing really heavy concepts to kids while their brains are developing, because you want to traumatize them, and you’re traumatizing them because you want them to comply. What you want them to comply with, in this case, is [that] Germany, Nazi, Hitler [are] the greatest evil that’s ever happened on earth, even though factually and statistically it is not,” Owens said.
The Allies were the bad guys? Imagine hating the Jewish people so much that you feel the need to defend Hitler. Can’t believe this video actually exists. pic.twitter.com/iiahGkahNP
— Adam Goldman (@admgoldman) July 9, 2024
Owens bemoaned that American schools do not draw attention to the 12 million Germans who were displaced at the conclusion of World War II.
Following the Nazis’ defeat, roughly 12 million Germans either fled or were forcibly expelled from communities throughout Eastern and Central Europe. In many cases, ethnic Germans had lived in those communities for centuries.
“What is it about Hitler? How, why is he the most evil? Well the first thing people would say is, well an ethnic cleansing almost took place. And now I offer back, ‘you mean like we actually did to the Germans?’” Owens asked.
Many historians, who generally agree that the mass displacement of Germans after World War II caused immense suffering, have argued that minimizing the atrocities of the Holocaust is a tactic that constitutes Holocaust denialism.
Nonetheless, Owens asserted that the expulsion of German civilians and the attempted extermination of European Jewry were “the same,” pointing to the fact that some Nazi concentration camps were repurposed to hold Germans fleeing hostile European countries.
During the same podcast episode, Owens also seemed to cast doubt on the well documented history of the infamous Nazi doctor and war criminal Josef Mengele performing gruesome medical experiments on Jewish prisoners in concentration camps.
“The Nazis experimented on innocent people,” Owens began. “Some of the stories, by the way, sound completely absurd.”
“The idea that they just cut a human up and then sewed them back together. Why would you do that? Even if you’re the most evil person in the world, that’s a tremendous waste of time and supplies,” Owens continued. “That just sounds like bizarre propaganda.”
Mengele conducted gruesome and deadly medical experiments on Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust. He also carried out torturous experiments on twins and was nicknamed the “Angel of Death.” He fled to Brazil after World War II and eluded capture until he died in 1979 under a false name.
The Combat Antisemitism Movement lambasted Owens for her remarks.
It is an established fact that SS officer Josef Mengele performed deadly experiments on Jewish twins during the Holocaust.
Not 80 years later, @RealCandaceO tries to rewrite history by denying these depraved acts ever happened.
Utterly repugnant. pic.twitter.com/1RdLn35wLm
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) July 10, 2024
Owen’s comments prompted a wave of backlash online.
“Candace Owens has completely lost her mind. Blinded by Jew hatred, she’s now resorted to defending Hitler statements,” Adam Milstein, a philanthropist, wrote on X/Twitter. International human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky accused Owens of having “gone full-blown Neo-Nazi.”
A source “close to the situation” told the New York Post that Owens “never denied that Mengele conducted experiments.”
“This is a misleading edited clip,” the source reportedly said. “In fact, if you listen to the full episode, you will hear that Candace condemned medical experiments.”
Owens later posted a message on X/Twitter lashing out at her critics and claimed “Zionists are in overdrive to get this episode banned.” She added that the episode was “so detrimental to Zionism” because “they have polluted American minds to believe that we must defend Israel out of morality and the evils of the Holocaust.”
In the months following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel, Owens has continuously flirted with antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denialism.
Last month, Owens claimed that the US is being held “hostage””by Israel and suggested that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the US, was behind the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy.
Weeks later, during an appearance on The Jimmy Dore Show, Owens asserted that Hitler was not “the greatest mass murderer” to ever exist. She pointed out that the Bolsheviks — the far-left, Marxist faction that led the Russian revolution in the early 20th century — “casually killed 10 million Christians” under the command of Genrikh Yagoda, the director of the Soviet Union’s security and intelligence agency. Owens stated that Americans are not “allowed” to learn about Yagoda “because he’s a Jew.”
Owens and The Daily Wire, a conservative media outlet co-founded by conservative and Jewish political commentator Ben Shapiro, parted ways earlier this year amid outrage over Owen’s comments on Israel and the Jewish people.
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New Poll: Majority of NYC Voters ‘Less Likely’ to Support Mamdani Over His Refusal to Condemn ‘Globalize the Intifada’
Zohran Mamdani. Photo: Ron Adar / SOPA Images via Reuters Connect
In a warning sign for the campaign of Democratic nominee for mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani, a majority of city voters in a new poll say the candidate’s hardline anti-Israel stance makes them less likely to vote for him.
In the survey of likely city voters conducted by American Pulse, 52.5 percent said Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the slogan “globalize the intifada” coupled with his backing of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement made them less likely to vote for him in November. Just 31% of city voters polled were more likely to support him because of these positions.
At the same time, a significant share of young New York City voters support Mamdani’s anti-Israel positioning, a striking sign of shifting generational views on Israel and the Palestinian cause.
Nearly half of voters aged 18 to 44 (46 percent) said the State Assembly member’s backing for BDS and “refusal to condemn the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’” made them more likely to support him.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist from Queens, has been under fire for defending “globalize the intifada,” a slogan many Jewish groups associate with incitement to violence against Israel and Jews. While critics argue it glorifies terrorism, supporters claim it’s a call for international solidarity with oppressed peoples, especially Palestinians. Mamdani has also voiced support for BDS, a movement widely condemned by mainstream Jewish organizations as antisemitic for singling out Israel.
The generational divide exposed by the poll comes amid a broader political realignment. Younger progressives across the country are increasingly critical of Israeli policies, especially in the wake of the Gaza war, and more receptive to Palestinian activism. But to many Jewish leaders, Mamdani’s rising support is alarming.
Rabbi David Wolpe, visiting scholar at Harvard University, condemned the phrase with a sarcastic analogy.
“‘Globalize the intifada’ is just a political slogan,” he said. “Like ‘The cockroaches must be exterminated’ was just a housing authority slogan in Rwanda.”
Jewish organizations have reported a surge in antisemitic incidents in New York and across the U.S. since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last fall. The blending of anti-Zionist slogans with calls for “intifada,” historically linked to violent uprisings, has deepened fears among Jewish communities that traditional red lines are being crossed.
Whether this emerging coalition reshapes New York politics remains to be seen. However, the poll indicates that among younger voters, views that were once considered fringe are quickly moving into the mainstream.
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Report: Jews Targeted at June’s Pride Month Events
A Jewish gay pride flag. Photo: Twitter.
The research division of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) released a report on Wednesday detailing incidents of hate against Jews which took place last month during demonstrations in celebration of LGBTQ rights and identity.
Incidents reported by the group include:
- At a Pride march in Wales, the activists Cymru Queers for Palestine chose to block the path and show a sign that said “Profiting from genocide,” an attempt to link the event’s sponsors — such as Amazon — to the war in Gaza.
- A Dublin Pride march saw the participation of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which labeled Israel a “genocidal entity.”
- In Toronto at a late June Pride march, demonstrators again attacked organizers with a sign declaring, “Pride partners with genocide.”
CAM also identified a recurring narrative deployed against Israel by some far-left activists: so-called “pinkwashing,” a term which the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement calls “an Israeli government propaganda strategy that cynically exploits LGBTQIA+ rights to project a progressive image while concealing Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies oppressing Palestinians.”
The report notes that at a Washington DC Pride event in early June Medea Benjamin, cofounder of activist group Code Pink and a regular of anti-war protests, wore a pair of goofy, oversized sunglasses and a shirt in her signature pink with the phrase “you can’t pinkwash genocide.”
Other incidents CAM recorded showed the injection of anti-Israel sentiment into Pride events.
A musical group canceled a performance at an interfaith service in Brooklyn, claiming the hosting synagogue had a “public alignment with pro-Israel political positions.” In San Francisco before the yearly Trans March, a Palestine group said in its announcement of its participation, “Stop the war on Iran and the genocide of Palestine, stop the war on immigrants and attacks on trans people.”
CAM notes that this “queers for Palestine” sentiment is not new, pointing to a 2017 event wherein “organizers of the Chicago Dyke March infamously removed participants who were waving a Pride flag adorned with a Star of David on the grounds that the symbol ‘made people feel unsafe.’”
In February, the Israel Defense Forces shared with the New York Post documents it had recovered demonstrating that Hamas had tortured and executed members it suspected of homosexuality and other moral offenses in conflict with Islamist ideology.
Amit Benjamin, who is gay and a first sergeant major in the IDF, said during a visit to New York City for Pride month that “All the ‘queers for Gaza’ need to open their eyes. Hamas kills gays … kills lesbians … queers cannot exist in Gaza.”
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IAEA pulls inspectors from Iran as standoff over access drags on
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 23, 2025. REUTERS/Elisabeth Mandl/File Photo
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday it had pulled its last remaining inspectors from Iran as a standoff over their return to the country’s nuclear facilities bombed by the United States and Israel deepens.
Israel launched its first military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in a 12-day war with the Islamic Republic three weeks ago. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s inspectors have not been able to inspect Iran’s facilities since then, even though IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has said that is his top priority.
Iran’s parliament has now passed a law to suspend cooperation with the IAEA until the safety of its nuclear facilities can be guaranteed. While the IAEA says Iran has not yet formally informed it of any suspension, it is unclear when the agency’s inspectors will be able to return to Iran.
“An IAEA team of inspectors today safely departed from Iran to return to the Agency headquarters in Vienna, after staying in Tehran throughout the recent military conflict,” the IAEA said on X.
Diplomats said the number of IAEA inspectors in Iran was reduced to a handful after the June 13 start of the war. Some have also expressed concern about the inspectors’ safety since the end of the conflict, given fierce criticism of the agency by Iranian officials and Iranian media.
Iran has accused the agency of effectively paving the way for the bombings by issuing a damning report on May 31 that led to a resolution by the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors declaring Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has said he stands by the report. He has denied it provided diplomatic cover for military action.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday Iran remained committed to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“[Grossi] reiterated the crucial importance of the IAEA discussing with Iran modalities for resuming its indispensable monitoring and verification activities in Iran as soon as possible,” the IAEA said.
The US and Israeli military strikes either destroyed or badly damaged Iran’s three uranium enrichment sites. But it was less clear what has happened to much of Iran’s nine tonnes of enriched uranium, especially the more than 400 kg enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons grade.
That is enough, if enriched further, for nine nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA yardstick. Iran says its aims are entirely peaceful, but Western powers say there is no civil justification for enriching to such a high level, and the IAEA says no country has done so without developing the atom bomb.
As a party to the NPT, Iran must account for its enriched uranium, which normally is closely monitored by the IAEA, the body that enforces the NPT and verifies countries’ declarations. But the bombing of Iran’s facilities has now muddied the waters.
“We cannot afford that … the inspection regime is interrupted,” Grossi told a press conference in Vienna last week.
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