Candace Owens’ response to Kanye West’s anti-Semitism is disappointing. Yes, Candace Owens is good friends with Kanye West. Yes, Kanye plans to buy Parler, a company whose CEO is Candace’s husband, George Farmer. But a friend can’t call out a friend if he crosses a red line? 

Of all the responses to Kanye West’s anti-Semitism, Candace Owens’ disappointed us the most.

It started with her disingenuous “let’s wait and see” attitude when the story broke. That was when Kanye, in a tweet, promised to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”

On her podcast, Candace opined, "Now, if you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was anti-Semitic."

Really? When someone promises to attack the entire Jewish people, it’s not anti-Semitic? That’s practically the definition of anti-Semitism.

Digging herself in even deeper, Candace continued,

"You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates … Jewish people … That's if you're an honest person, you'll admit that, right?”

Actually, no. Because it sure sounds a lot like he hates them.

Finally, she claimed,

"If you're an honest person, when you read this tweet, you had no idea what the hell he was talking about … Is he tweeting this because he's reading the Newsweek headline, calling him an anti-Semitic?"

But if Kanye was upset with Newsweek, why was he talking about the entire “JEWISH PEOPLE?” Even an “honest” person knows that if Kayne was blaming the JEWISH PEOPLE for Newsweek’s characterization of him, Kanye was evoking one of the oldest anti-Semitic tropes. Namely, that Jews control the media.

Even if Candace Owens believed that Kanye was somehow mischaracterized after his initial “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” tweet, there can be no question about Kanye’s beliefs since. He spent the next two weeks spewing vile anti-Semitism on platform after platform:

• On October 7, we found out that Kanye’s account was restricted on Instagram after he posted a text conversation he had with Sean “Diddy” Combs. In the text, he said he said he would use Combs “as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” (That was before the “death con 3” remark.)

• On October 15, in a since-deleted episode of Drink Champs, Kanye claimed that he’d been “blocked” by the “Jewish media."

• On October 17, in an interview with Chris Cuomo, Kanye talked about the “Jewish underground media mafia” and said his “death con 3” remarks referred to when “Black musicians signed to Jewish record labels and those Jewish record labels take ownership.” He called that ownership a form of “modern-day slavery.”

• On October 19, on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Kanye did not regret his anti-Semitic remarks. “No, absolutely not,” he said. “I fought fire with fire. I’m not here to get hosed down.” On the show, he called Morgan a “Karen” for challenging him on his anti-Semitic remarks. Later, he apologized to “the people that I hurt with the ‘death con’” comment and to “the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I have been through.”

• On October, 30, Kanye voiced his support for Nets guard Kyrie Irving who promoted an anti-Semitic film and book on social media. Back on Instagram, Kayne wrote, “There’s some real ones still here.”

Since Kanye’s outbursts, Candace has not issued one word against Kanye’s ugly sentiments. Even a simple “I was wrong. It was anti-Semitism” would have sufficed.

From that simple admission, Owens could have told us that because of her friendship with Kanye and the conflict of interest with her husband’s company, she was publicly bowing out of the conversation.

Instead, she has gone on the offensive.

In a series of tweets, she viciously attacked her critics who questioned her silence. Moreover, in doing so, she intentionally played the “black victim card,” hypocritically repudiating one of the main themes of her life’s work.

Let’s break this down.

Candace Owens specifically positions herself as a moral voice willing to tell it straight to her fellow black Americans. She enjoys tremendous support for expressing her views, which almost always run contrary to mainstream Leftist sentiment.

Her signature stance is that black people in America are not victims. Yet, when questioned about her silence in the face of blatant anti-Semitism, Owens played the black victimhood card. Here are just two of a series of long tweets she fired off in which she made the story not about Kanye’s anti-Semitism but about the intimidation of black artists and commentators whom she claims want to voice their support of Kanye but have been silenced:

Besides her distorted claim that specifically black artists and commentators are being “silenced,” the entire affair has revealed yet another side to Candace Owens. This one is perhaps uglier.

A number of young Jews, passionate about their people's safety, were unwilling to stay silent when slandered. They voiced their opinion about Candace Owens’ lack of condemnation of Kanye’s anti-Semitism.

Compared to Candace’s over eight million followers on her Twitter and Instagram accounts, the reach of these social media neophytes is minimal. Yet, Candace lashed out against them, singling out one with particular venom – a 20-something Jewish influencer Rochel Leah Taktuk (@thethirstysouls). Rochel Leah has a following of 7,315.

Plastering Rochel Leah’s face across her Twitter account (which has 3.2 million followers), Candace Owens tweeted:

“I have been fielding threats for two weeks straight. How is it possible that any person is allow [sic] to openly message “don’t mess with the Jews” to me? Rochel Leah is just one of many who have been openly threatening me and many other black podcasters. Why is this okay?”

Sorry, Candace, we don’t buy it. Rochel Leah’s “Don’t Mess With the Jews” comment was childish but not even close to a real threat to you or any other black podcaster.

A real threat needs real power behind it – like the kind you have (which is why Rochel Leah is now bearing the brunt of death threats) and the kind of power that Rochel Leah doesn’t have.

Candace, it’s time to take a step back, understand that Kanye’s path is not your path and condemn his anti-Semitic statements without reservation.