JTA — Catholic right-wing activist Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission over what the chair called her “political agenda” during a public hearing on antisemitism this week.

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 Palestinian flags, asked Yeshiva University President Ari Berman, who had been invited to testify.

To Shabbos Kestenbaum, who emerged as an antisemitism activist in the aftermath of the bloody Hamas-led October 7, 2023, onslaught on Israel, she asked, “Since we’ve mentioned Israel a total of 17 times, are you willing to condemn what Israel has done in Gaza?”

Prejean Boller also criticized Seth Dillon, the Christian CEO of the conservative satire site, The Babylon Bee, for........

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