| THE LIE Candace Owens claims religious Jews are raising “brainwashed psychos.” She says a clash between Jews and Palestinians in Samaria on October 16, 2026, shows “what they have planned for America,” and that Americans are paying for it. . |
| THE TRUTH On October 16, 2026, Palestinians and Israelis clashed during the olive harvest near Abu Falah in Samaria, Israel. Within hours, the media blamed Israelis, before anyone knew what happened. Israeli police are still investigating. |
| BACKGROUND On October 16, 2026, a large group of Palestinians, activists, and journalists came to olive groves near Abu Falah, beside an Israeli hilltop community in Samaria. A confrontation broke out between Israeli farmers and Palestinian farmers, and Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was injured. CBS News The Binyamin Regional Council said the Palestinian Authority sent activists to deliberately provoke residents of the Israeli community. CBS News Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office said Palestinians far outnumbered the Israelis and that people on both sides hurled objects. ABC Candace Owens posted about the clash on X, telling her followers it shows “what they have planned for America.” She said Americans fund such clashes and accused religious Jews of breeding “brainwashed psychos” under the guise of religion. X |
| TRUTH EXPLAINED This was a planned provocation, and Israelis said so before it happened. The Binyamin Regional Council warned in advance that hundreds of Palestinians and anarchists were arriving with journalists to stage a confrontation. Afterward, the council said they threw stones and fired fireworks straight at Israelis so the cameras could film the response, and it named the Palestinian Authority as the organizer. You don’t bring a press corps to an olive harvest unless you expect a show. Israel.com Journalist Kassy Akiva posted video of masked Palestinian men carrying clubs at the harvest site that day. Farmers don’t bring clubs and masks to pick olives. Men who came ready for a fight don’t fit the story of innocent harvesters ambushed in their groves. X The IDF said it will examine all circumstances and warned that attempts to incite friction between populations undermine security in the area. The army knows the olive harvest has become a stage for provocations. Its warning points to a planned confrontation, not a random attack. CNN Israel isn’t hiding anything. Israeli police and the Shin Bet are investigating, and no arrests have been made. A country that breeds and protects violent extremists, as Owens claims, doesn’t send its top security agency to hunt down its own citizens. Israel investigates because it takes the rule of law seriously. Ynet The false headline raced around the world even before investigators reached the scene. Foreign governments and media pronounced Israel guilty before police identified a single suspect. When the verdict comes before the evidence, the facts no longer matter. U.S. aid pays for missiles, jets, and Iron Dome interceptors to help Israel defend itself against Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. It doesn’t pay for a brawl on a hillside. If anything, the Israeli security forces America helps support are the ones investigating this clash. Candace Owens doesn’t know what happened on that hillside, because no one does yet. That didn’t stop her from slandering every religious Jew on earth. When the verdict comes before the evidence and lands on an entire people, it isn’t news commentary. It’s antisemitism. |
| QUOTES “The more serious the accusation, the greater the demand for compelling evidence.” – Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office X |
| TAKEAWAY This was a setup. Israelis warned in advance that activists were coming with cameras to stage a confrontation, and the media ran the script exactly as written. Candace Owens didn’t wait for the facts because the facts don’t help her. Demand the evidence before you believe the headline. |
