Carrie Prejean Boller did not arrive at the February 9, 2026 hearing on anti-Semitism in America as a hardened ideologue. She came wearing an American-Palestinian flag pin, armed with questions she believed a Religious Liberty Commission should be willing to hear, and convinced that religious freedom meant the freedom to dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy on Israel.
By February 11, she was gone.
The former Miss California USA, a recent convert to Catholicism appointed by President Trump to his White House Religious Liberty Commission, was removed from the panel after she challenged witnesses at a Museum of the Bible hearing about whether criticizing Israeli policy in Gaza constituted anti-Semitism, whether Catholics were required to embrace Zionism, and whether social media platforms would be pressured to censor biblical passages about the role of Jewish authorities in the crucifixion of Christ.
Her removal came not from President Trump, but from Commission Chair Dan Patrick, the evangelical Christian Lieutenant Governor of Texas. Prejean responded with a public letter rejecting his authority and accusing him of acting “in alignment with a Zionist political framework that hijacked the hearing, rather than in defense of religious liberty.”
The message was unmistakable. In an era when Jewish power over American discourse on Israel has reached unprecedented consolidation, even asking the wrong questions can be detrimental to one’s standing in normie political circles.
