Dennis Prager to Candace Owens

A Real Statement

Dennis Prager has released a 15 page letter he sent to Candace Owens regarding her public statements about Jews and Israel. I am impressed with his response and his candor (https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/4rR7bx8wnD4YcM06JiBp3l/36e46704f8d36e2fb6db3c79db3c88ee/a_letter_from_dennis_prager_to_candace_owens.pdf).

However, to both of these persons and others who have entered the debate, please do not find yourself with the egotistical conceit of the living in judging the dead. You and I were not there. Our judgments are likely invalid and flawed.

So let us go directly to the conflict. Owens is a mother with a strident bias in protecting not only her children but other children as well. Why would anyone expect her views to deviate from such bias? Owens took issue with the sexual products sold by a rabbi’s daughter and it is this which has inflamed a conflict. Can people not see this as being problematic?

Yes, Owens is trolling through questionable information, no doubt. Prager successfully challenges her on these matters. However, I believe she will move back off these matters eventually and on to other things. I love her for her passion in being a pit bull in digging into the information on controversial topics. Let the pit bull dig. Have patience and when she has brought questionable information, challenge her on it.

This is what Prager has done with patience. He has done what is the best thing an American can do: layout the argumentation and refutation. He has done so without being rude, and outright condescending. He has laid out his arguments with great skill and persuasion.

Yes, Prager may be confused why someone like me in Omaha is praising him. American Jews have been fed many falsehoods. Irish Americans, defenders of the Confederacy, and Zionist Jews all believed in self-determination. You can easily figure out this might not be a politically correct coalition today but self-determination matters and it is what has defused much antisemitism at times. I defend Israel for the same reason I defend Ireland and will argue about the causes of the Civil War and secession. Power to the people matters.

Prager put out a video on the Civil War and has not revisited the topic since because the video was so heavily attacked for having false and biased information. There is this flaw among many Jewish Americans in understanding the wider world. Jews are not being attacked for being Jewish, but for being the people who came before others in time. If Confederate monuments can go down, so eventually can Jewish people. This has not received the attention it deserves. Preserving history preserves the people. This is why Owens gets trapped into pushing what appears to be antisemitic talking points.

Prager counters Owens on much of her questionable information. Yet, no matter what, Israel has a fundamental right to exist. Argue all you want about how or why it was founded, but note, such argumentation is merely a hobby, not a destination. My love of Ireland shines over Israel. Let there be peace in Israel. My love of the United States shines over Jewish Americans and Black Americans. Let peaceful people be to prosper.

In addition, Prager raises a crucial point. We must be cautious not to feed dark-shadowed paranoia and make certain our arguments address the topic and not be misconstrued for other purposes. This is a separate challenge in and of itself. Yet, Owens cannot fully comprehend this at this time. Perhaps, with time she will.