Candace Owens Banned From This Country

Australia has forbidden Candace Owens from entering the country, rejecting her visa application ahead of a planned national speaking tour.

According to The Guardian, Australia’s immigration minister, Tony Burke, said she had the “capacity to incite discord.”

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“From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about [infamous Nazi doctor Josef] Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction,” Burke said, according to The Guardian.

“Australia’s national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else,” Burke added.

The Jerusalem Post noted that Jewish groups previously called for her visa to be canceled in August.

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From The Guardian:

Owens had scheduled a five-date speaking tour of Australia in November, with events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Tickets ranged from $95 for general admission to $295 for a VIP meet and greet and $1,500 for a private dinner with the conservative media personality.

She has courted controversy with incendiary claims about Jewish, transgender and Muslim people. In July, she appeared to cast doubt on well-documented Nazi medical experiments on prisoners, calling such accounts “completely absurd” and “bizarre propaganda”.

The US Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, has accused Owens of coming to “embrace and promote antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel rhetoric”, noting comments where she called Judaism a “pedophile-centric religion”. LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation Glaad has pointed to allegedly anti-trans comments from Owens, including calling the trans equality movement “evil” and “satanic”. She has also claimed “white supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America”.

Owens’ Australian tour had been opposed by some local Jewish groups while the opposition home affairs spokesman, James Paterson, called her “a dangerous antisemite and a conspiracy theorist” during a Sky News interview.

However, the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) criticized the decision.

“We have called out Candace Owens for spreading unhinged bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theories including an allegation that human sacrifices around Passover were done in Europe by ‘Frankists’ who established Israel! However we have NOT called for her to be banned from Australia. Jewish values support for free speech and debate. We also see it as a strategically flawed proposal,” the AJA stated.

The group said banning her may be counter-productive.

“Sometimes attempting to ban a speaker can have the opposite effect and fuel more interest. It may also encourage ugly conspiracies that Jews seek to control who can speak, exercising undue power. If Candace Owens is banned, it hands her an ‘I told you so’ excuse to perpetuate that allegation,” the AJA wrote.

“AJA is more concerned with the failure of the Labor government to deal with the real threats to our community such as antisemitism at universities and importing thousands from Gaza with minimal security. The ban would give the Government the false appearance of acting against antisemitism, in effect throwing us a few crumbs while ignoring the big issues,” it added.

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We have called out Candace Owens for spreading unhinged bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theories including an allegation that human sacrifices around Passover were done in Europe by “Frankists” who established Israel!

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From the Jerusalem Post:

The Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC) called the decision a “victory for truth.”

The visa cancellation of Owens, “a known peddler of dangerous rhetoric against Jews and other groups, and unapologetic Holocaust denial,” is a victory for “the millions of Jewish souls and millions of others whose memory she so shamelessly desecrated,” the ADC added.

The ADC, along with Annetta Able, the oldest surviving victim of Dr Josef Mengele, and her daughter Daphne, have fought to prevent Owens from holding the events.

The ADC lamented Owens’ “vile revisionism,” in which she claimed that the atrocities of Dr. Mengele, who subjected many Jews to experiments and torture, were “propaganda.”

“This is more than just a visa being revoked. This is a tribute to every single survivor who bore witness to the horrors of Auschwitz,” the ADC added.

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