Candace Owens and the Specter of Rightwing Anti-Semitism

Last week, the Daily Wire, a popular rightwing website, fired the provocateur and YouTuber Candace Owens after she liked a social-media post describing a rabbi as “drunk on Christian blood.” Her firing is no doubt the result of her yearslong descent into anti-Semitism, which has been accompanied by her endorsing of outlandish conspiracy theories about vaccines, Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky, and the like. Christine Rosen examines Owens’s all-too-common method of pushing anti-Semitism into the public sphere: insinuation, prevarication, retreat to the position that she is “just asking questions” that others are afraid to, and claim she is being “cancelled,” before she begins the cycle again.