Candace Owens leaves Daily Wire site amid Israel and antisemitism tensions

The far-right commentator Candace Owens left the rightwing Daily Wire website amid tensions over her alleged antisemitism and opposition to US funding of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Israel’s air and ground onslaught in response has killed more than 30,000 people and pushed Gaza to the brink of famine.

Owens has criticised US support for Israel but also mused about “political Jews” and a “very small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism”, remarks Shapiro called “absolutely disgraceful”.

On Monday, on social media, Owens liked a post in which a user asked Shmuley Boteach, a well-known rabbi, if he was “drunk on Christian blood again”.

The ADL, which campaigns against antisemitism, posted a report by the progressive watchdog Media Matters about remarks in which Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and white supremacist, praised Owens for mounting “a full-fledged war against the Jews”.

It’s hardly surprising, but it does set off alarm bells: when bigoted people come together to push an antisemitic agenda, it adds fuel to the fire of hate.”