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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T17:49:58.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Postliberal Catholic social influencer (and former Miss California beauty queen) Carrie Prejean Boller’s claims of “Zionist” control of the U.S. Religious Liberty Commission highlighted the growing influence of anti-Israel postliberal Catholics and Protestants.\n\nAt Monday’s meeting of the commission, which focused on antisemitism, Boller, as a commission member, complained about the commission’s failure to condemn Israel. Afterwards, she tweeted: “I will continue to stand against Zionist supremacy in America. I’m a proud Catholic. I, in no way will be forced to embrace Zionism as a fulfillment of biblical prophesy. I am a free American. Not a slave to a foreign nation.”\n\nYesterday, the Religious Liberty Commission chairman said he was removing Boller from the commission because “no member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda.” (Boller denies the commission’s chairman can remove her.)\n\nFellow Catholic convert and anti-Israel social influencer Candace Owens tweeted her support of Boller and against the Religious Liberty Commission:\n\n**_Carrie didn’t hijack anything. You hosted a performative Zionist hearing meant to neuter the Christian faith. Carrie spoke truth, as a Catholic, and Christians, the Truth cannot be defeated. Zionists are naturally hostile to Catholics because we refuse to bend the knee to revisionist history and support the mass slaughter and rape of innocent children for occult Baal worshipers. Your decision will only further the Christian enlightenment which is taking place in this country. And for that, we thank you._**\n\nBefore her removal, and after Monday’s commission meeting, Boller tweeted:\n\n**_I will never bend the knee to the state of Israel. Ever. I am more determined than ever to speak plainly about political Zionism and the lies we’ve been sold to justify endless war, dead children, and blank checks. My conversion to the fullness of the Catholic faith exposed what I was taught in American evangelicalism, a version of Christianity that fused Jesus with a political agenda and called it “God’s prophecy being fulfilled.”_**\n\nAnd Boller concluded: “Christ is King,” which is, sadly, increasingly common code language for anti-Jewish influencers.\n\nEven more disturbingly, Boller and Owen retweeted a notorious antisemitic and anti-Protestant figure who declared:\n\n**_As I have said before, as Protestantism disappears, the fundamental conflict at the dawn of America ’s fourth republic will be the battle between Catholics and Jews over whether the moral law is universal and binding for all men, the Catholic position, or whether one group by virtue of its DNA is above the moral law and can commit any crime to preserve its hegemony over the rest of us._**\n\nBoller like Owens and others insist they are merely criticizing Israel. But instead, they typically conflate “Zionist” with Jewish in their complaints about “Zionist control,” which is really a claim about supposed Jewish control. Antisemitic tropes typically assert that Jews, even if only one or two percent of the population, “control” vast parts of society and so must be targeted. Of course, Naziism gained power in the 1930s by claiming Germany needed liberation from Jewish control, even though Jews were a tiny percentage of the German population.\n\nBoller like Owens claims her objections to “Zionism” are rooted in her newly found Catholicism. She conflates Zionism with evangelical Christian Zionist Dispensationalism, which focuses on biblical prophecy. But Zionism predates and is much wider than Dispensationalism. Zionism simply supports a Jewish homeland. Dispensationalism was born in the 19th century and became popular among evangelicals in the 20th century. Zionism includes Jews, of course, many Catholic and Protestant non-Dispensationalists, and many non-religious people. Boller and Owens are disingenuous or simply ignorant in their facile conflation of Dispensationalism with Zionism.\n\nBut the conflation is increasingly common and worrisome. A young staffer at the Heritage Foundation at a publicized staff meeting last year, amid the Tucker Carlson/Nick Fuentes, controversy, complained that Zionism contravened her faith, which was presumably Catholic. Carlson ignited controversy then because of his friendly interview with Fuentes, who has identified with “Team Hitler.”\n\nBoller and Owens, while wrapping their anti-Jewish statements in Catholicism, ignore many Catholic statements affirming fraternity with Jews and recognizing Israel. Almost nobody claims political criticism of Israel by itself is antisemitism. But obsessive critique of Israel, and obsessive denunciation of Zionism, are always ominous.\n\nObsessive anti-Zionists like Boller and Owens who are, at the least, adjacent to antisemitism, have emerged when universal values of human dignity and human rights are retreating. These universal values emerged from Judaism and Christianity, whose God is universal.\n\nBut postliberal tribalists like Boller and Owens point to a nastier world in which religion becomes largely a self-defensive tribe constantly warring against other tribes. The point of the conflict is not truth, harmony, or reconciliation, but the conflict itself, which offers at least superficial purpose to lives otherwise without meaning.\n\nBoth Judaism and Christianity point to a vision in which God presides over a tranquil world in which the lion will lie down with the lamb. We are not at that point, but our aspirations should always point in that direction.\n\n**More from IRD:**\n\nChristian Zionism, Antisemitism & Christian Realism\n\nChristian Antisemitism\n\nThe post Post-Liberal Catholicism & Anti-“Zionism” appeared first on Juicy Ecumenism.",
  "title": "Post-Liberal Catholicism & Anti-“Zionism”"
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