Late last week, a bipartisan pair of Members of Congress introduced a resolution condemning antisemitic hate-filled rhetoric and content disseminated by prominent online personalities, specifically naming Candace Owens and Hasan Piker.

I work for an organization that knows the importance and impact of quiet diplomacy, on handling problems discreetly to avoid escalation. We try to help public figures avoid “stepping in it” and if they do, we try to guide them towards positive resolution. We recognize that putting leaders on blast is often not the best way to educate or get results, so supporting the passage of a resolution doing exactly that may seem contradictory. 

Naming these names is not about putting Owens or Piker on blast, it’s about putting their hate on everyone’s radar.

Owens is a political commentator whose increasingly antisemitic rhetoric has alarmed former allies, mainstream conservatives, and Jewish groups, including American Jewish Committee (AJC). 

Owens has transformed from a conservative commentator with credentials at Daily Wire, Turning Point USA, and as a Fox News contributor, into someone who promotes Holocaust denial, blood libel, and conspiracy theories about Jewish control. 

With more than 5.7 million YouTube subscribers, Owens packages antisemitism as political commentary, making hate speech against........

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