Overview
- After a heated Feb. 12 hearing, Sen. John Curtis said he will oppose Jeremy Carl for assistant secretary of state for international organizations, citing anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about Jews.
- With a 12–10 Republican majority on the panel, one GOP defection would tie the committee and block the nomination from advancing to the Senate floor, where considering a nominee without a favorable report is rare.
- Senators pressed Carl on a record of racist, antisemitic and inflammatory statements, including repeated references to the “Great Replacement” theory and comments about Israel and Jewish people in podcasts and posts.
- Carl told senators he regretted remarks minimizing the Holocaust and, under questioning, struggled to explain claims about the “erasure of white culture.”
- CNN’s KFile previously reported Carl deleted roughly 5,000 social media posts before his nomination, and a White House official says he remains the nominee despite the committee math.