Candace Owens, You’re Better Than This

Last week, Candace Owens decided the only way she could continue in her righteous crusade of truthtelling and peace activism was to invite the highly controversial Jewish Scholar Norman Finkelstein onto her show.

Now, here’s a brief history of the famed Finkelstein. Not only did he justify the October 7th Massacre, he went on to praise it, comparing it to the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto and writing that “It warmed every fiber of my soul.” In the past, he has also praised David Irving, a Nazi Historian who denies the existence of gas chambers, as “A very good historian,” and justified the Charlie Hebdo Massacre. It seems this guy has a thing for massacres. On top of that, he has also asserted that Putin had every right to invade Ukraine, and in 2006 during a New York City protest stated “We are all Hezbollah,” either before or after going to Lebanon to meet with its leaders.

Oh, and by the way, he was fired from Hunter College and from NYU, then denied tenure at DePaul University in relation to the publication of various books, one of which the New York Times described as a modern version of the antisemitic trope, “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

But Candace didn’t get into any of that with Finkelstein. No, of course not: they had much more pressing matters to discuss than his deeply problematic views about basically everything. You see, Finkelstein believes Israel is essentially a Nazi genocidal state, and that is what Candace was there to eat up.

Finkelstein started off with about half an hour of chortled lamenting, chiefly focused on the premature babies in Gaza being killed in hoards, apparently. He denied the existence of Hamas activities in Al Shifa (which has since been proved unequivocally), and asserted the only reason Israel is attacking hospitals is because the state is genocidal.

He gave no examples of Israeli war crimes but insisted they were well documented by organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the UN.

Oh. The same organizations that lied for Hamas while it was murdering Israeli hostages in Al Shifa?

Hm…

Right.

The basic premise is that Israel is indiscriminately butchering and starving the entire population of Gaza, not to exterminate it outright (and he doesn’t make clear why not, since he asserts that is what Israel ultimately wants), but instead just to “Mow the grass.”

Candace listens in horrified fascination and in one of her rare interjections, comments that her heart was broken for a little Christian girl she saw pulled out of the rubble in Gaza, and…come on people, where is your HUMANITY?

As an aside, there are roughly 500 Christians of any age left in Gaza. The rest have fled or been exterminated due to Islamic oppression. There are objectively not many little Christian girls left to die in Gaza, but it is the one image that elicits pity for Candace. Earlier in the war she also issued a scathing condemnation of Israel for bombing an ancient Christian church in Gaza, although the church itself was not actually targeted — something she failed to point out. It is strange that Candace has so much ire for those who specifically hurt Christians in Gaza, but doesn’t direct any of her ire to say…Hamas or Islamic Jihad? Why, exactly, Candace, do you think a population that was once in the thousands has now been reduced to 500? Hint: it’s not because of Israeli rockets.

But I digress. Norman continued to note Israel’s genocidal tendencies in Gaza, without hardly once mentioning Hamas, nor the fact they shoot their own fleeing civilians, nor the fact they murder political opponents, nor the fact they steal all humanitarian aid, nor the fact their leaders have billions while their population lives in squalor, nor the fact they repeat with bloodthirsty zeal their wish to destroy all Jews, even at the expense of their own children.

None of that was discussed.

But then, something surprising happened. Candace did something she rarely did in this interview: she asked him a real question. October the 7th. What do you think?

Finkelstein denounced it, which is strange because as I wrote above, and in an earlier post written on October 7th itself, he described it as “[warming] the very fibers of my soul.”

But, of course, Candace didn’t bring this up. In fact, for the entire 75 minutes of the show, she hardly brought up anything. There was basically no pushback, just a wide-eyed, head-nodding agreement, reminiscent of her earlier interview with Andrew Tate in which she “mhmed” through 20 to 30 of his lies, feeding him his outs where they were needed.

But again, I digress.

Finkelstein, promptly after denouncing October 7th, then began the caveats. No beheadings. No rapes, at least no evidence of them.

Right.

Exactly.

No evidence.

Candace simply nodded along. And I started wondering, how wildly ill-informed she is? Is there a chance perhaps she hasn’t seen the footage of hostages with bloodstains in their crotches? Hasn’t heard the countless eye-witness testimonies of corpses with entrails streaming out of knife wounds in their vaginas or cadavers with broken pelvises cause by being raped too hard?

Not to mention the Hamas instruction manuals found at the massacre sites, which included rape as part of the battle plan.

Not to mention the captured Hamas terrorists who again and again explained that murdering the rape victims was essential so that no half-Jewish babies could be brought into the world.

But no, none of that is true. There was no rape on October 7th.

Just like Andrew Tate never raped or trafficked women. Except the lie here is a thousand times worse, because these women are almost all dead, and they are dead, and they were raped, for one crime and one crime alone: being Jewish.

When will you wake up Candace? You are a Christian, but you are turning a blind eye to injustice. You are not speaking up for the oppressed. You are letting powerful voices spread lies, and all you are doing is nodding along. God is not pleased with that, not at all.