{"id":288757,"date":"2026-02-13T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/288757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:50:17","slug":"trump-pick-for-top-diplomatic-post-in-doubt-over-antisemitic-anti-israel-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/288757\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pick for top diplomatic post in doubt over antisemitic, anti-Israel views"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> nominee to serve as assistant secretary of state for international organizations faced a major setback Thursday when a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said he would oppose the appointment.<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah said he does not believe Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent the nation\u2019s interests at international organizations. The position oversees U.S. relations with bodies including the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Carl is a senior fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute think tank. He served as a deputy assistant secretary of the Interior Department during Trump\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated,\u201d Curtis said in a statement after Carl\u2019s nomination hearing.<\/p>\n

Curtis\u2019 decision was first reported by the Deseret News.<\/p>\n

A White House official said Carl remains the nominee.<\/p>\n

At the hearing, Curtis asked Carl about past comments about Jewish people, including a podcast appearance in which he responded, \u201cRight, right, yeah,\u201d when the host criticized Jews for \u201cclaiming special victim status\u201d because of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

Curtis\u2019 opposition makes it unlikely Carl will win approval from the Foreign Relations Committee, potentially sinking his nomination.<\/p>\n

That would mark a departure in the Republican-controlled Senate, which has so far backed most of Trump\u2019s nominees and policies.<\/p>\n

The committee has 12 Republicans and 10 Democrats and oversees the State Department. All Democrats are expected to oppose Carl.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey asked Carl what he meant when he said he believed in the \u201cGreat Replacement\u201d theory, which promotes the idea that nonwhite immigrants will replace white citizens.<\/p>\n

Carl said he was referring to the \u201cinternational demographic replacement of Europeans in Europe.\u201d Booker then asked whether Carl believes there is currently \u201can effort to replace Americans.\u201d Carl responded, \u201cI think the Democratic Party, through its immigration policies, has certainly sent signs of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Questions about Carl\u2019s nomination have circulated for months. In September, CNN reported that Carl had tried to delete at least 5,000 posts on X, formerly Twitter, including many that were inflammatory about race.<\/p>\n

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York opposed Carl\u2019s nomination in a Senate speech this week, saying he has \u201ca long history of racist, white supremacist and antisemitic views.\u201d<\/p>\n

A nomination can be sent to the full Senate for a vote even if the committee does not approve it, though that is extremely rare. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the chamber.<\/p>\n

Asked for comment, a spokesperson for Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, the committee\u2019s Republican chairman, said he supports all of the president\u2019s nominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee to serve as assistant secretary of state for international organizations faced a major setback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-288757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}