Short answer: No. As of August 2026, Candace Owens does not support Israel. Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, she has moved from mild criticism of Israel's military response to explicit, escalating antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, including comparing Israeli actions to a "holocaust," accusing Prime Minister Netanyahu of "genocidal ambitions," and, in late 2025, implying Israel or pro-Israel forces were connected to Charlie Kirk's assassination.
What Candace Owens has actually said and done
November 3, 2023: Days after Hamas's October 7 attack, Owens posted on X, in the context of Israel's military response, "No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever. There is no justification for a genocide." It was the post that first publicly split her from Daily Wire colleague Ben Shapiro over Israel, as reported by Slate.
November 6, 2023: On a podcast episode titled "Am I Anti-Semitic?" Owens said "Nobody wants to talk about the Christian holocaust," reframing the Gaza war around alleged Christian persecution rather than Israeli or Palestinian civilian suffering. The remark is documented by Factually and corroborated by the Anti-Defamation League.
March 22, 2024: The Daily Wire and Owens parted ways after months of public feuding with Shapiro over her Israel commentary. Shapiro had publicly told her "by all means quit" in mid-November 2023, replying to her post that "You cannot serve both God and money", according to CNN Business and the Times of Israel.
2024: Owens stated that Netanyahu has "genocidal ambitions," and in a December 17, 2024 video responding to the StopAntisemitism award she said he had "murdered and killed and maimed more actual Semites this year" than anyone else, calling him an antisemite, per reporting from the Times of Israel and the ADL.
December 15, 2024: The watchdog group StopAntisemitism named Owens its "Antisemite of the Year" for 2024, citing rhetoric defending Hitler's domestic actions, mocking Jewish concerns over Kanye West's antisemitic posts, and claims that Hollywood is run by "sinister Jewish gangs." Owens publicly and happily accepted the designation on video, as covered by the Algemeiner and JNS.
December 2025: A study reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency found Owens, along with Tucker Carlson, sharply increased anti-Israel rhetoric across 2025. Separately, JNS and the Jerusalem Post documented Owens falsely asserting that Jewish people, rather than European and American merchants, were principally responsible for the transatlantic slave trade. JTA also reported StopAntisemitism naming Carlson its 2025 "Antisemite of the Year" while noting Owens's rhetoric had ramped up further.
December 2025: Following a roughly 4.5-hour meeting with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, Owens declined to retract her theory that Israel or pro-Israel actors were connected to Kirk's September 2025 assassination, implying the confirmed shooter, Tyler Robinson, was an accessory in a false-flag operation. Israeli officials, including former Mossad director Yossi Cohen, publicly denied any such involvement, according to CNN and the Jerusalem Post.
January 8, 2026: Owens posted Kanye West's 2022 "Death Con 3 on Jewish people" tweet on her own platform and called it a "vibe," a further public embrace of overt antisemitic content, as reported by the Algemeiner.
The bigger picture
Candace Owens is a conservative American political commentator and media personality, formerly of Turning Point USA and The Daily Wire and now running her own independent show. Before October 7, 2023, she was best known for domestic culture-war commentary and was not a prominent voice on Israel either way. Her posture shifted sharply after the Hamas attack: opposition to Israel's military response in Gaza quickly moved from generic anti-war statements into recurring antisemitic tropes, including references to Jewish control of media and Hollywood, minimizing or relativizing the Holocaust, and defenses of Hitler's domestic record. That pattern led directly to her split from The Daily Wire in March 2024, repeated "Antisemite of the Year" recognition from StopAntisemitism, and, most recently, public promotion of an unsubstantiated theory tying Israel to Charlie Kirk's assassination, which Israeli officials and multiple outlets have rebutted. There is no record found of any statement, donation, event appearance, or other action by Owens supportive of Israel during this period, and reporting does not indicate any Jewish ancestry or identity claim on her part.
The bottom line
Candace Owens does not support Israel. Her public record since October 2023 shows a clear and escalating pattern of anti-Israel and antisemitic statements, culminating in a 2025 conspiracy theory implying Israeli involvement in Charlie Kirk's assassination, with no offsetting pro-Israel statements, donations, or actions found in the record through August 2026.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
