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from religious liberty advisory body after derailing a panel on Jew-hatred with repeated claims anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitic.
The announcement of Prejean Boller’s removal by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, an evangelical Christian, on Wednesday came after Prejean Boller spurned calls to resign from her post given mounting backlash over her remarks on Monday.
"Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission," Patrick wrote in a post on X. "No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision."
The Wall Street Journal, the right-wing activist Laura Loomer, and Catholic and Jewish groups aimed at fighting antisemitism had all denounced Prejean Boller’s comments, which represented a dramatic eruption into government proceedings of the kinds of far-right talking points about Jews and Israel that have fueled a recent divide over antisemitic rhetoric within the Republican Party.
"I would rather die than bend the knee to Israel," Carrie Prejean Boller, a model and Catholic right-wing activist named to the panel in June, tweeted early Wednesday, as fallout over the meeting continued.
During the meeting, which had been convened to discuss antisemitism in the United States, Prejean Boller defended Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson against antisemitism allegations, disputed the idea that blaming Jews for killing Jesus is antisemitic, and said her Catholic faith prohibits her from supporting Israel.
"I’m a Catholic, and Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know, so are all Catholics antisemites?" Prejean Boller, who wore a pin depicting the American and Paleostinian flags, asked Yeshiva University President Ari Berman, who had been invited to testify.
The Religious Liberty Commission was created by US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...in May with the mandate to offer recommendations on expanding religious liberties to the president. Its critics have said it caters largely to the concerns of Christian evangelicals, including an interfaith group that filed a lawsuit against the commission this week, accusing it of having "unbalanced and biased viewpoints."
Prejean Boller, who converted to Catholicism in April, was named to the commission by Trump in June, alongside a host of Christian influencers, including the television personality Dr. Phil.