On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than 1,100 people and taking hostages. Israel then launched an attack on Gaza, killing more than 30,000 people to date, per The Guardian.

After Israel’s counter-attack last year, Owens criticised its military actions, writing on social media, “No government anywhere has a right to commit a genocide, ever. There is no justification for a genocide.”

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However, on an episode of her show on The Daily Wire, she went even further, speaking about the possibility of a “sinister Jewish gang” in Hollywood, per Media Matters. She also drew sharp criticism for liking a post on X (formerly Twitter) that accused well-known Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of being “drunk on Christian blood”, per The Guardian. That comment is particularly harmful as it evokes the “blood libel” conspiracy – the false claim that Jews use the blood of non-Jews for ritual purposes – which was used by Nazis to defend the persecution of Jews, per the Holocaust Encyclopaedia.

She even attracted the attention of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, per Forbes, who praised her for a “full-fledged war against the Jews”. Owens retorted on X that she did not know him and thinks that “my crime is having stood up for myself against your [netizens’] network of smears”.

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So what happened between Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro?

Shapiro, who is the co-founder of The Daily Wire and a Jewish-American, has had several public spats with Owens, according to The Guardian. In a video posted on TikTok, Shapiro called Owens’ remarks “disgraceful”.

He also challenged her “by all means quit” on X, to which Owens responded by saying, Shapiro had acted “unprofessional and emotionally unhinged for weeks now”.

The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing was previously widely reported as stating that he would not fire Owens, despite her spat with the site’s co-founder.

On an episode of The Breakfast Club radio show with Charlamagne tha God, Owens further addressed the issue between Shapiro and herself, telling the host that Shapiro “doesn’t have the power to fire me”.

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Owens was previously associated with being a liberal, but when she proposed a website to expose those who harass people online and received negative feedback, she switched sides, per Forbes.

She gained a conservative following after starting a YouTube channel where she promoted the idea of “Blexit”, a movement encouraging African-Americans to leave the Democratic Party. Owens later spearheaded the Blexit Foundation, but declined to answer questions regarding how it spent the money fundraised for it, per Daily Beast in late 2022.

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She is famously opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement and even produced a film in 2022, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM, which claimed that Floyd died from an overdose and not as a result of police restraint.

“Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The implications here are terrifying,” she added, per Newsweek.

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Who is Candace Owens’ husband?

Owens is married to British businessman George Farmer. The couple met when they were both working for conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA, per People, albeit for its US and UK branches, respectively.

Just 17 days after meeting her for the first time, Farmer asked the outspoken conservative to get married during a FaceTime call. They got married at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2019, with the bride wearing three Monique Lhuillier dresses.

According to BET, Owens defended her decision to “marry a white man”, saying, “I never thought of my husband as a race. I married the person it made the most sense for me to marry.”

Farmer was once the CEO of Parler, the conservative social media platform launched in 2018 supposedly as a true “free speech” platform. Per People, the app was removed from multiple app stores after it was reportedly connected to the 2021 Capitol riots. West had said he was going to buy Parler, but that deal was later canned, as reported by the Financial Times.