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    "https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260211-trumps-religious-liberty-commissioner-removed-after-zionism-dispute/"
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  "textContent": "submitted by geneva_convenience to usa\n17 points | 2 comments\nhttps://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260211-trumps-religious-liberty-commissioner-removed-after-zionism-dispute/\n\nCarrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California, was removed Wednesday from President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission following a contentious hearing on antisemitism for what she claimed were efforts to “force” commissioners to affirm Zionism.\n\nCommission Chair Dan Patrick wrote on US social media platform X that the decision to remove Boller was his, accusing her of pursuing a “personal and political agenda” during a hearing Monday.\n\nBoller wrote in a statement Tuesday that she would not resign and rejected accusations that she had pursued a political agenda.\n\n“Forcing people to affirm Zionism as a condition of participation is not only wrong, it is directly contrary to religious freedom, especially on a body created to protect conscience,” she wrote. “As a Catholic, I have both a constitutional right and a God-given freedom of religion and conscience not to endorse a political ideology or a government that is carrying out mass civilian killing and starvation.”",
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