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Investigations · January 1 to July 20, 2026

For an audience of six million, she said today's Jews are impostors wearing the religion as a costume.

SeverityHatefulTreats a whole group as lesser, dangerous, or not fully human. Everything at this level.
Who said itCandace Owens, about 6.05 million followers
Who it targetsJewish people
TrackProtected groupsProtected-group hate and political-opponent extremism are counted apart, and neither total is presented as a score against the other. Everything on this track.
What was said

Owens told her audience that “the people that we are fighting are effectively pagan gypsies who have been wearing the cloak of Judaism, I would say since the fall of the missing Khazarian Empire.”

Why it counts

The Khazar claim is an old device with a specific job: declare that today’s Jews are impostors, and everything that has ever been said about Jews becomes sayable again with the defense that it isn't about real ones.

This is the widest-reach version of the single story that dominates the half-year. Twenty-six of the 59 confirmed items run some form of a hidden coordinated Jewish hand behind events that have ordinary causes. None of the carriers cite each other. They arrive at the same script separately, which is what makes it a script rather than a campaign.

The receipts

Every quote, checked against its source.

Candace Owens

"The people that we are fighting are effectively pagan gypsies who have been wearing the cloak of Judaism, I would say since the fall of the missing Khazarian Empire."

Documented in ADL’s backgrounder on Owens, which tracks the same claim across multiple episodes.

2026-02-02 · source

One of 59 confirmed items from a six-month pass across 925 accounts, plus the legislatures, courts, and agencies around them. Nine of the 59 are on this site, picked on a stated rule rather than by feel. The rest are in the full report.

Go deeper

Religious hate across 925 accounts

The full six-month pass across three lanes, with per-narrative scoring and the roster hit rates. This page is the plain-language cut; that one is the whole thing, including the hate methodology that defines every score here.