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If you’re tapped into conversations around Israel online, you may have noticed a certain blond woman who, seemingly out of nowhere, has started popping up all over social media. Carrie Prejean Boller, a former beauty queen and faithful Trump supporter, has found herself at the center of an explosive conservative fight.

She appeared as a figure in the national conversation suddenly last month, when clips began circulating online of her comments during a meeting of the White House’s Religious Liberty Commission—a group, tasked with creating a report on the importance of and threats to religious liberty, that has focused largely on airing claims of discrimination from conservative Christians. In that meeting, Prejean Boller noted her opposition to the definitions of antisemitism used, asserting that Christians could be labeled antisemites for quoting the Bible—an argument that treads dangerously close to saying that Scripture condones anti-Jew hate. Worse, she insisted, repeatedly, that Candace Owens has never said anything antisemitic. This was an absurd statement: Owens often rants about powerful Jews ruining American society. A couple of days later, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the commission’s chair, announced that Prejean Boller had been kicked out of the group.

Afterward, Sen. Ted Cruz called her an “Israel-hating crazed antisemite,” while Laura Loomer deemed her a “stupid bitch.” Meanwhile, figures as unusual as Sarah Palin and Michael Flynn came to her defense, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations praised her for speaking the truth. On Friday, Tucker Carlson released an interview with her on his massively popular podcast.

Somehow, this once relatively obscure conservative character had quickly become one of the most interesting and inflammatory personalities in the intra-MAGA feuds playing out over Israel. Prejean Boller, a conservative Christian claiming a religious basis for opposing Israel, represents an odd brand of anti-Israel politics that is on the rise on the right. This brand mixes sincere compassion for victims of U.S.–Israeli military force and astute observations about Israel’s destructive actions with conspiracy theory–driven hostility toward Jewish groups. The trend isn’t unique to the right—antisemitism has at times crept into pro-Palestinian activism on the left as well—but coming from a place of conservative defiance against MAGA leadership, it can seem thrillingly bold. Without knowing the full context of Prejean Boller’s politics and past, she and her supporters look to progressives like allies in the fight, a splinter group that understands just how hollow Trumpism really is.

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