Candace Owens’s Famous Father-in-Law Rebukes Her Over Latest Blood Libel

Candace Owens’s father-in-law, Lord Michael Farmer , a member of the British House of Lords, issued a thinly veiled rebuke of Owens over her most recent promotion of blood libel on Monday, observing that Jesus Christ was a “Jewish man” who was “born to a Jewish woman” in a lengthy thread on X.

In a video over the weekend, Owens disputed the idea that the Holocaust helped lead to the establishment of the state of Israel. Here was her alternative theory:

Catholics and Christians were going missing on Passover, and then they would find bodies, okay, across Europe, and they were able to trace them back to Jews. Blood libel! They weren’t Jews, okay? These were Frankists. And so just like Leo Frank killed Mary Phagan on Passover back in 1913 or 1914, I can’t remember the exact date, he did it during Passover for a reason. This Frankish cult which is masquerading behind Jews still participates in this shit to this day, okay? Why would you want, as a small nation that is the size of New Jersey, okay? Why would you want the pedophiles to flee there? Like, why would you want the pedophiles to be procreating? Unless, unless the nation of Israel may have been established by some Frankists. And it’s looking like Theodore Herzl’s family was from the exact same area in Moravia and in Bohemia, where the Frankist cult was founded.

Leo Frank was a Jew wrongly convicted of murder and lynched in Georgia in the early 20th century. There is no evidence to suggest he was a Frankist, or member of the cult founded by Jacob Frank in the 18th century. Owens has a history of promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was fired by The Daily Wire earlier this year after Mediaite reported on a tweet Owens had liked about a rabbi being “drunk on Christian blood again.”

On Monday, Lord Farmer issued what can only be read as a rebuke of his daughter-in-law.

“In view of public comments from a high-profile member of my family, I want to put my own views on antisemitism and Israel’s current military campaign in Gaza on public record,” began Farmer.

He continued :

As a teenager, growing up in the wake of WW2, I became very aware of the cruelty meted out, before and during that conflict, against Jewish people – because they were Jewish. I found it impossible to comprehend how humans could, intentionally, be as cruel as possible to others. Whilst the general opinion in Britain was that it would never happen here, even then I thought ‘Really?’ and sensed it could happen anywhere. Such sadism lay dormant in the heart of everyone.

Then, as a young man, I worked with many Jewish people in the city: the boss in one of my first jobs had come to Britain on a Kindertransport. I often experienced kindness and thoughtfulness from Jewish friends as well, at a time when I had few close relationships. The best man at my wedding and life-long friend was Jewish.

I became a Christian in my mid-30s and became aware of the latent rebellion in my own heart against my creator. The bible says we all need a saviour because we all fall short of the goodness we aspire to and expect from others. We aspire to goodness because we are made in God’s image, and he is good. Jesus Christ is God’s son. He came into space and time as a Jewish man, he fulfilled Jewish law, his mother was Jewish, and his closest followers were ordinary Jewish men and women. He came to save us from the consequences of our rebellion.

I recently visited Israel and am a member of a UK-Israel support group but am very aware of the human heart and that no one group always acts with perfect intent and motivation. However, that does not mean there is never an aggressor who needs to be repelled. Israel is a rare example of a democracy in the Middle East, a liberal state governed by the rule of law. Of course, it has the right to defend its citizens when murderously attacked on its soil in one of the cruellest and most callous pogroms in history.

We cannot forget the large number of innocent hostages that were taken: many have died, and some are still missing. Israel faces an existential threat as Hamas, the terrorist organisation, has stated their intention to destroy it. And of course, the plight of civilians in Gaza is also utterly appalling but I see Israel has little option but to fight its enemy where it chooses to hide itself – in tunnels under key infrastructure and behind innocent civilians. A recent letter from international military leaders said that the Israel Defence Forces were acting in a highly accountable way in an extremely complex and difficult environment. We cannot forget that they have been forced to prosecute this war.

To conclude, I should point out that I am the Christian Deputy Chair of the Council for Christians and Jews. This was founded in 1942 as a bulwark against antisemitism, and our monarch has always been its patron.

LORD MICHAEL FARMER

Owens married Farmer’s son George Farmer in 2019.