4 Dennis Prager responses to Candace Owens on Israel, antisemitism

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Monday, October 07, 2024

4. Anti-Zionism and antisemitism

A demonstrator at the Americans March for Israel carries an Israeli flag alongside other demonstrators in support of the effort to combat antisemitism and show support for Israel's war against Hamas in Washington, D.C., on November 14, 2023. | The Christian Post/Nicole Alcindor

Prager accused Owens of recently devoting “nearly two hours" of her program "depicting Zionism, once again, as an evil movement. It is completely fair to say that you are an anti-Zionist.”

Prager said Zionism is a movement to reestablish a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, an effort that anti-Zionists oppose. The PragerU co-founder noted that the world has over 200 countries, but anti-Zionists only appear to take issue with the one Jewish country.

Anti-Zionists are not called antisemitic because they criticize Israel, as Prager asserted, but because the only country they “delegitimize is Israel.”

“Why don’t anti-Zionists devote their energy to delegitimizing Pakistan? There was an Israel from 1020 BC to 586 BC and from 516 BC to 70 AD, but there was never a Pakistan until it was created in 1947-48 (the same year Israel was reestablished). Pakistan was wrenched from India to create a Muslim state,” Prager wrote.

The conservative commentator also noted that the number of deaths resulting from the creation of Pakistan is 1 million compared to the 10,000 Arab deaths during the 1948 war.

“In addition, according to the Indian government, at least 86,000 women were raped. Most historians believe the true number to be far higher," he added. "The number of women raped when Israel was established is close to zero. The highest estimate was 12.”