Christian Father-In-Law Shames Candace Owens for Anti-Semitism

Member of UK House of Lords distances himself from Catholic convert's remarks

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The father-in-law of social media influencer and celebrity Catholic convert Candace Owens publicly rebuked his celebrity daughter-in-law for her escalating diatribes against the Jews. 

Lord Michael Farmer, a committed Christian who is a member of the House of Lords and an outspoken advocate of persecuted Christians, published a thread on the social media platform X on Monday, days after Owens went on a widely-watched internet rant claiming that Zionists are not the original Jews but are actually demon-worshipers.

"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," Farmer wrote in a typically-understated English tone, noting that "the best man at my wedding and life-long friend was Jewish."

LORD FARMER CONDEMNS ANTI-SEMITIC 'SADISM'

Distancing himself from Owens' remarks in which she claimed that modern Israel founded by the Rothschilds was a safe haven for pedophiles, the high-profile aristocrat, who is also one of Britain's wealthiest businessmen and is worth nearly 150 million pounds, noted that the "sadism" of Jew-hatred "lay dormant in the heart of everyone."

"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," Farmer wrote. "I found it impossible to comprehend how humans could, intentionally, be as cruel as possible to others."

"The best man at my wedding and life-long friend was Jewish."

"Whilst the general opinion in Britain was that it would never happen here, even then I thought 'Really?' and sensed it could happen anywhere," he emphasized, recounting how, as a young man, he had "worked with 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," Farmer recollected. 

ARISTOCRAT CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY

Narrating the testimony of his own Christian conversion, the former treasurer of the Conservative Party, revealed how he became a Christian in his mid-30s "and became aware of the latent rebellion in my own heart against my creator." 

"The Bible says we all need a Savior 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," Farmer explained, in an X thread that has had garnered over a million views at the time of this writing. 

Candace Owens received into the Catholic Church at the Brompton Oratory

"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," the aristocrat, who has preached from the pulpit of St. Helen's Church in Bishopsgate, London, noted. "He came to save us from the consequences of our rebellion."

ISRAEL'S EXISTENTIAL THREAT

Farmer said he was "very aware of the human heart and that no one group always acts with perfect intent and motivation," acknowledging, "that does not mean there is never an aggressor who needs to be repelled," especially when Israel was "murderously attacked on its soil in one of the cruelest and most callous pogroms in history."

Praising Israel as "a rare example of a democracy in the Middle East, a liberal state governed by the rule of law," Farmer noted that "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."

"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 organization, has stated their intention to destroy it," he added, concluding that he is "the Christian Deputy Chair of the Council for Christians and Jews, which was founded in 1942 as a bulwark against antisemitism."

OWENS DENOUNCED BY MEDIA COLLEAGUES

The conservative podcaster, who was earlier fired from the Daily Wire, has been denounced by several high-profile personalities for going public with her Jew-hatred. 

"Sadly, something seems to have gone wrong with Candace, so that she is now engaging in and spreading the most vile & vicious Jew-hating conspiracy theories, some of them dating back to the depths of ignorance from the Middle Ages!" award-winning Fox News contributor Sara Carter lamented in a statement on X. "Her false ideology spreads like a deadly cancer."

"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."

"I condemn Candace Owens, I condemn her disgraceful fall to espousing pure antisemitism, and I know there is no room in the conservative movement for an antisemite like Owens. I call upon any conservative individual or organization who still holds any ties to Owens to similarly condemn and cut off Owens," Carter pleaded. 

Souls and Liberty has contacted the London Oratory in Brompton, London, the famous parish where Owens was confirmed and received into full communion with the Catholic Church in April, asking if the priests had made any attempt to address Owens' anti-semitism which was causing scandal and bringing Catholicism into disrepute. 

REVIVAL OF 'CATHOLIC' ANTI-SEMITISM

Anti-Semitism continues to infect a significant section of the traditionalist Catholic movement who reject the magisterium of Vatican II and cite pre-Vatican II documents and popes to support their hatred of Jews and their rejection of the state of Israel. 

Mark Weitzman in his book Jews and Judaism in the Political Theology of Radical Catholic Traditionalists traces the continuity in recent Catholic Jew-hatred from Coughlin to elements in the Society of Saint Pius X, including the Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson – who spewed his anti-Semitic bile in the SSPX for eighteen years.

While Pope Paul IV's bull, titled Cum nimis absurdum (1555), declared that it is "absurd and utterly unacceptable that the Jews, who due to their own guilt were condemned by God to eternal slavery" should be allowed to coexist with Catholics, Vatican II's Nostra Aetate in an epochal U-turn, turned the Jew "from enemy to brother," using the Latin superlative carissimi to describe the Jews as "beloved by God."

The seeds for modern Catholic anti-Semitism were sown before Vatican II, as has been documented in the case of the popular pro-Nazi radio preacher Fr. Charles Coughlin, who defended the atrocities of Kristallnacht. Coughlin is estimated to have reached 40 million listeners during the 1930s. Church authorities helped get him kicked off US airwaves, at the urgent request of Catholic bishops in Germany.

Candace Owens with her husband George Farmer

Owens is one of the conference speakers at the forthcoming Catholic Identity Conference in September, along with her husband George Farmer, Bishop Joseph Strickland and Bishop Athanasius Schneider. The conference is being organized by traditionalist Catholic Michael Matt, editor of The Remnant.

In May 2023, at least 18 speakers pulled out from the "Hope is Fuel" conference organized by Catholic podcaster Patrick Coffin, after learning that it was featuring E. Michael Jones, a Catholic author who is known for his extensive anti-Semitic writings.      

In a March 22 tweet, Jones ranted in a tone reminiscent of the now-abolished Good Friday prayer for "perfidious" Jews: "As Holy Week approaches, we need to understand that it is time to take sides."

"You now must decide whether you are on the side of Jesus Christ, the Logos incarnate, or on the side of those who killed the Logos Incarnate and have been subversive revolutionaries ever since," Jones added. "If I were speaking to someone who was Jewish, I would say, 'You killed Christ.'"

Dr. Jules Gomes, (BA, BD, MTh, PhD), has a doctorate in biblical studies from the University of Cambridge. Currently a Vatican-accredited journalist based in Rome, he is the author of five books and several academic articles. Gomes lectured at Catholic and Protestant seminaries and universities and was canon theologian and artistic director at Liverpool Cathedral.

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