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Shmuley Boteach

What Does Candace Owens Have on Dennis Prager & Ben Shapiro to Buy Their Silence

A thousand years ago, the Jews of Norwich, England were living their lives peacefully. After a twelve year old Catholic boy, William, was found dead, the Jews of England were blamed and annihilated. Thus was born the blood libel, the most wretched of lies against the Jews that has now been resurrected by Candace Owens, America’s foremost antisemite who was brought to national prominence by Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro.

A little over a week ago, Candace Owens, went live on X and said, “Catholics and Christians were going missing on Passover and then they would find bodies across Europe and they were able to trace them back to Jews.” She then added, “Is anyone buying that Rabbi Shmuley is a victim and not a thug who goes around threatening peoples lives? Is anyone thinking now that they’re seeing Rabbi Shmuley tweeting and his daughter…that you’re looking at a class of victims… even when they’re lying and smearing and libeling and killing?… I just want to be clear, if anything happens to me, blame the Zionists like 1000 percent. Let that be my parting words. The more you look into their little network of sex psychopaths.. If I get killed, its definitely a Zionist.”

The Jews of Norwich were the first to die en masse due to the blood libel. After Candaces diatribe on X, multiple threats were made against our family in one day. The FBI as well as local law enforcement are investigating these threats.

Perhaps the most shocking of all is that this blood libeling, Jew hating, Israel smearing conspiracy theorist is the media creation of Prager and Shapiro, both of whom profited hugely off Owens financially and both of whom have yet to fully condemn her Jew-hatred.

How did we get here?

It all started on October 7th, 2022, when Kanye West posted a screenshot of a text message he had sent to Sean “Diddy” Combs. It read, ”This ain’t a game… Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me… I told you this was war…Now gone get you some business.” He captioned the post,.” On the same day, in an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, West said, “I prefer my kids knew Hannukah from Kwanzaa. At least it will come with some financial engineering.” Producers cut that statement from the two-part, two-hour conversation that aired on Fox News.

That same day, Candace Owens posted a video to her Shapiro-owned Daily Wire podcast called “Kanye West is Courageous.” Shapiro, a yarmulke-wearing would-be media mogul who claims to fight for Israel was silent.

On October 8th Kanye West tweeted “I’m a bit sleepy tonight, but when I wake up Im going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE. The Funny thing is I actually can’t be antisemitic because black people are Jew also  You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”

Two days later, on October 10th, Candace Owens said on her Daily Wire show, “If you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic, you did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. This does not represent the beginning of a Holocaust…it’s like you cannot even say the word Jewish without people getting upset.” Her boss, Ben Shapiro, as well as her mentor in media, Dennis Prager, who also claims to be a pro-Israel, proud Jewish broadcaster, remained silent. Indeed, till today Prager has never uttered a single public criticism against Owens, and actually defended her, even as she sunk into the infernal pit of becoming America’s most vitriolic antisemite.

On October 13 Ben Shapiro rose to defend Owen’s friendship with the Hitler lover, as well as his own undying friendship with Owens. “Let me just say this…On a personal level, I get Candace defending her friend. She’s very close with Kanye West. I get it. I don’t think her defense of Kanye is correct or convincing…. Am I still friends with Candace? Of course, I’m friendly with Candace…were allowed to have the disagreement, that’s the way this works.”

But Kanye continued to harass Jewish people and Candace continued to defend him. On a podcast called “Drink Champs, Kanye said, “You just get used to being screwed by the Jewish media…I just saw on TMZ yesterday they said that Pete Davidson and Kim have sex by the fireplace to honor they grandmother, it’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life.”

In November, Dennis Prager shocked the Jewish world by penning an article dedicated solely to the defense of Candace Owens. He wrote, “Candace Owens has now been charged with antisemitism — for defending and not condemning her friend Kanye West after his antisemitic outbursts. Ideally, she would have… But is Candace Owens antisemitic? It is sad that the question even needs to be answered…She has worked for the last few years for the Daily Wire, co-founded by Ben Shapiro, a yarmulke-wearing Orthodox Jew. Will any of this be acknowledged by those who attack Candace?” Why did Prager feel compelled to so staunchly defend her? Until today, Prager has remained utterly silent as Owens’ own father-in-law would condemn and publicly repudiate her antisemitism after she began to promote the idea that Jews drink Christian blood and after she preached that Zionists are murderers who killed JFK and are trying to murder her as well.

No one has yet gotten to the bottom of what Owens has on Prager and why, after profiting greatly off their relationship, Prager refuses to denounce her vicious attacks on Israel as a nation of murderers.

Later, on November 8th, Owens, on her show, says, “There’s a lot a tension right now between the Jewish community and the black community… Kanye is my friend. With all this going on, with Adidas pulling out and saying we want nothing to do with Kanye and gap pulling out and saying we want nothing to do with him and the entire world condemning him, a lot of people wonder what he is thinking, what is Ye thinking, how does he respond to losing 2 billion dollar in one day.. How do you think he’s feeling about that? A lot of you guys have me thinking he’s feeling very sad about that. I’m only going to tell you what he’s going to tell me last week. Because I was feeling sad about it in a way. He  said to me, “Now I’m finally free.” It almost made me cry, right? It almost made me cry because I realized I was so worried for him and I have felt so scared and so worried for him and yet for Ye in this be somebody that he is not.”

On December 1st Kanye appeared alongside the white supremacist and American neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on Alex Jones’ Infowars in an episode posted online the following Thursday. “The Jewish media has made us feel like the Nazis and Hitler have never offered anything of value to the world…I see good things about Hitler, also…Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.” Even the reptilian Alex Jones replies: “The Nazis were thugs.” Shapiro and Prager remain utterly silent, with Prager’s defense of Kanye’s bestie Candace Owens hovering in their airwaves.

In the interests of brevity, fast forward to October 9th, 2023 and Owens says on her show that she didn’t post anything about the October 7th massacre of Jews because, “When it comes to this particular issue, I myself have received pressure to post something, which is strange of course because if you follow this show, you know that we follow culture, that we talk about politics as it relates to America. You never see me weigh in on various wars that are happening overseas.” Shapiro and the Daily Wire, continuing to rake in the monthly subscription fees, maintain silence.

On February 12th, 2024 Candace calls two Super Bowl Israeli commercials about the hostages “propaganda” then says, “And actually last night, in case you were wondering, while the Super Bowl was on, Netanyahu bombed a refugee camp.” Earlier in the video she says abortion clinics are concentration camps and holocaust museums. Shapiro and Prager, who gave the antisemite her national platform, remain silent.

In April of this year, Dennis Prager was hosted on a podcast where the podcaster asked “Candace Owens was recently fired… do you think that that (the daily wire firing Candace) was the right decision?” Prager answered, “I think it was the right for both Candace and the daily wire, the tension was too great. She didn’t benefit and the Daily Wire didn’t benefit at that point.” Shockingly, he said not a word about Candace’s defense of Hitler loving Kanye and her theory about a Jewish, pedophilic, murder gang that she claimed controlled Hollywood. The Jewish community is again forced to ask itself, “What does Owens have on Prager that he would destroy a half century of work as a Jewish activist to defend America’s most notorious Jew-hater?” In all this time we – Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his daughter Rochel Leah Taktuk – emerge as the foremost critics of Owens’ and Kanye’s antisemitism and Owens begins to hit back by using classic tropes of Jews as murderers.

On March 7th. Owens shared one of her most vicious, dangerous conspiracy theories of all. On her YouTube channel she claimed that there is a pedophilic, murderous gang of Jews who control Hollywood, and that killed Michael Jackson. And which Jew in particular? Why, the only public Jew in America who is condemning her vicious Jew-hatred. What a coincidence.

A week later, shockingly, Ben Shapiro sat down with her on the “Daily Wire Backstage” show, laughing and talking politics and culture, as if Owens hadn’t just accused the Jewish nation of murder, and the state of Israel of genocide. On March 13th Owens says about Rabbi Shmuley “I want you to know Rabbi Shmuley that I am indeed an uppety black.. you want to bankrupt me for defending myself? Is that what you said? Are those one of the reasons that Michael Jackson put you on a list of individuals that he felt were threatening his life?… What are you gonna do next are you gonna kill me? Are you gonna kill me because I refuse to kowtow to you?” Faced with one of his employees openly calling a famous Rabbi a murderer, Shapiro chooses silence and continues to rake in the monthly subscription fees.

It was only after the two of us put massive pressure on Shapiro, calling him out making massive amounts of money off the suffering of his people, that he had no choice but to fire Owens.

Since then, it’s been crickets for both Prager and Shapiro. Even as Owens has gone on to promote Jews drinking Christian blood, the IDF as a gang of murderers, and Jews as murdering JFK and conspiring to control the world, the two men who made a mint off this repulsive antisemite have yet to agree to donate the money they earned off her to the victims of October 7th, or condemn a woman who would be only too glad to see another October 7th in 2025.

Which just begs the question: what Does Candace Owens Have on Prager and Shapiro that Keeps them Silent?

About the Author
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of This World: The Values Network. He is the author of Judaism for Everyone and 30 other books, including his most recent, Kosher Lust. Follow him on Twitter@RabbiShmuley.