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Candace Owens Happily Accepts ‘Antisemite of the Year’ Award in New Video
Candace Owens speaks at CPAC on March 2, 2023. Photo: Lev Radin via Reuters Connect
Far-right American political commentator Candace Owens has reacted to being named “Antisemite of the Year” by the US-based advocacy group StopAntisemitism, posting a video on Tuesday in which she ironically celebrated receiving the distinction.
StopAntisemitism, which spotlights instances of Jew-hatred, on Sunday named Owens its Antisemite of the Year for 2024, pointing to the YouTube content creator’s repeated attacks on Israel and the Jewish community.
“From defending Hitler’s actions in Germany and mocking Jewish fears over Kanye West’s antisemitic tweets, to claiming Israel forces Muslims into segregated quarters and insinuating Hollywood is run by sinister Jewish gangs, Owens has been rightfully crowned 2024’s Antisemite of the Year,” the group said in its announcement.
In response, Owens posted a video dismissing the notion that she harbors anti-Jewish beliefs and criticizing pro-Israel organizations for allegedly watering down the definition of antisemitism. She argued that supporters of Israel aggressively smear any individual who does not approve of the ongoing war in Gaza, claiming that “Likud Party terrorists” are slaughtering innocent civilians in the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave.
Owens gave a “thank you” to the various individuals who she claimed helped shape her views on the Jewish people, including multiple rabbis and Jewish public figures. She also claimed that it is difficult for people to provide a clear definition of antisemitism, rendering the issue difficult to actually identify.
“It’s whatever they want it to be, whenever they want it to be, and you might be an antisemite today,” Owens said.
The controversial media personality stated that the charge of antisemitism no longer maintains “any real meaning” and that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is actually the most prominent antisemite, because he has “murdered and killed and maimed more actual Semites this year” than anyone else. She claimed that Netanyahu has “manipulated” the American people into believing that Israeli Jews are “victims.”
Owens was fired from The Daily Wire, a conservative media company, earlier this year. Although neither the company nor Owens have released an official reason for her departure, many speculate that her repeated flirtations with antisemitic conspiracy theories enraged both viewers and Daily Wire leadership.
On X/Twitter, Owens accused Israel of committing a “genocide” against Palestinians as revenge for the Hamas-led invasion of and massacre across southern Israel last Oct. 7. She has also compared Jews with “Marxists” and said they want to “rewrite history.”
The conservative firebrand has also slandered Judaism as a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons … [and] child sacrifice” and suggested that people refrain from criticizing Israel out of fear of their own safety, saying, “Do you think it’s normal … that basically, every person who speaks about Israel has to basically say a statement that … ‘you know, I don’t want to get killed?’”
Owens was temporarily suspended from Youtube earlier this year after she posted a sit-down interview with Kanye West, in which the rapper made a series of virulently antisemitic comments. Owens blamed “Zionists” for her Youtube channel’s deplatforming. The provocateur’s channel was subsequently reinstated but has allegedly been de-monitized. She has also been banned from entering Australia and New Zealand over her past comments on Jews and the Holocaust.
In recent months, Owens claimed on her podcast that AIPAC, the foremost pro-Israel lobbying organization in the US, was behind the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. During the same episode, Owens claimed that the US is being “held hostage by Israel.”
Weeks later, Owens promoted a series of talking points downplaying the atrocities of the Holocaust and said experiments by Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele performed on Jews during World War II sounded “like bizarre propaganda.”
In September, she falsely claimed that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late spiritual leader of the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement who was also known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe, “preached Jewish supremacism.”
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.