Matt Bernstein

At the time, this is five months after October 7th, Israel had already killed 30,000 people in its genocide on Gaza.

And Candace was, like many of us, critical of U.S.

aid to Israel, but was simultaneously going on rants about Jewish people more broadly.

She said common sense things like American taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for Israel's wars or the wars of any other country.

And she said that Benjamin Netanyahu is committing a Holocaust on Palestinian children and women, which are things that I agree with and things that people across America broadly agree with.

But then Candace also says things like she compares Jews in Hollywood to the Bloods and Crips gangs.

Candace very intentionally doesn't separate Jews from Zionism and uses like the very real violence of Zionism and understandable anger towards Israel as a way to do audience capture for her anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

And this is why I have said this a number of times on this podcast.

She and people like Tucker and Nick Fuentes, they are some of...

the most infuriating things as an anti-Zionist Jew.

And I think for anti-Zionists in general, who come from a place of humanitarian concern and wanting equality for all people, and they exploit these desires that, by the way, the Democratic Party has spent two years leaving wide open on the table.

And again, it's another example of there being like a really real desire

gap in solutions for like, I have all of this anger towards a colony of the United States committing a genocide on people with my tax dollars.

And with no real solutions coming from the government, we still send aid to Israel regularly.

Here comes Candace Owens to sell you whatever she wants to sell you, including conspiracy theories about Jewish people that are wildly untrue and bastardize the Palestinian cause, bastardize the fight against anti-Semitism.

But also, Israel and Zionists paved the way for someone like this to flourish by insisting that there's no distinction between Judaism and Zionism.

So, yeah, I'm ranting.

It's just really frustrating.

Exactly.

And it's around this time that Candace makes what now seems like a pretty obvious bedfellow in the neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.