For someone who speaks often about “America First,” Carrie Prejean Boller seems remarkably focused on a place that isn’t America.
On February 9, 2025, Boller disrupted a hearing of the U.S. Religious Liberty Commission devoted to discussing antisemitism. Rather than addressing antisemitism in the United States—the topic of the hearing—Boller repeatedly redirected the discussion toward condemning Israel and defending “Palestine.” She confronted commission members about their support for Israel and then criticized them for focusing on “a foreign country.”
The irony was hard to miss. Boller often presents herself as an “America First” conservative, and the hearing was about antisemitism affecting Americans. Yet Boller appeared laser focused on discussing Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Boller repeated the same complaint during a March 13, 2026 interview with Tucker Carlson. The commission, she argued, shouldn’t have been discussing foreign countries.
But listening to Boller, one might think her central concern is Palestine rather than American religious liberty.
At the February hearing, Boller wore a Palestinian flag pin—conspicuously not an American one. Her remarks at the hearing, on social media, and during her interview with Carlson all focused on criticism of Israel and passionate support for “Palestine.” She also frequently attacked Israel for killing “70,000 innocent civilians” in a so-called “Palestinian genocide.”
Not only is that claim irrelevant to religious liberty in America, it’s patently false.
That number comes from Hamas, the governing authority in Gaza and a U.S.-designated terror organization. Hamas has repeatedly been caught inflating casualty figures or presenting combatants as civilians.
But even taking Hamas’s total casualty number at face value, the “70,000 innocent civilians” claim collapses under basic scrutiny.
In October 2025, President Trump stated that Hamas had lost roughly 58,000 fighters in the war—about 81 percent of the total casualties Hamas itself reported. Even under the unlikely assumption that all remaining deaths were women and children, that would leave roughly 13,600 noncombatant casualties.
That ratio is extraordinarily low for modern urban warfare. According to UN estimates, the global average civilian-to-combatant death ratio in dense urban conflicts is roughly 9:1. Using the figures above, Israel’s ratio is approximately 0.24:1—unprecedented in urban warfare and clearly not a genocide.
Hamas’s totals also do not distinguish between war deaths and ordinary mortality. Based on pre-war demographic data, roughly 16 people in Gaza died each day from natural causes. Over the duration of the war, that alone would account for roughly 13,500 deaths unrelated to military action.
Senior U.S. officials have also rejected the genocide claim outright. Both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have publicly stated that Israel’s actions in Gaza do not constitute genocide.
Ironically, Boller herself acknowledged during her interview with Tucker that she was told as much directly by Paula White—a senior advisor to the White House Faith Office whom Boller described as President Trump’s pastor. White, who unlike Boller has actually visited the region, told Boller that the genocide claims were unfounded.
That leaves an awkward reality: for Boller and Tucker to insist that Israel has killed “70,000 innocent civilians,” they must dismiss statements from the U.S. government—including officials within the administration they generally support—in favor of the narrative produced by Hamas.
Which raises a simple question. If “America First” means anything, why rely on the claims of Gaza’s government rather than those of your own government?
A glance at Boller’s public commentary only deepens the puzzle. Outside of debates about Israel and Zionism, discussions of America—or even Catholic theology—are surprisingly rare. Her social media feeds and interviews overwhelmingly revolve around attacking “Zionists,” criticizing Israel, and condemning Christians who support Israel, while expressing sympathy for the Palestinian narrative.
Takeaway
When given a platform to discuss antisemitism affecting Americans, Boller redirected the conversation to Gaza. When appearing on one of the largest political podcasts in the country, she again focused on Palestine. At a hearing about religious freedom in America, she wore the Palestinian flag. And when choosing whom to believe about the war in Gaza, she sided not with American officials, but with Hamas.
For someone who insists Americans shouldn’t be discussing foreign countries, Boller appears to spend nearly all of her time doing exactly that—while wearing their flag. If this is what “America First” looks like, it’s hard to tell where America fits in.
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