Chicago – March 16, 2026
An adviser to the Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission announced her resignation on Friday, accusing the administration of committing crimes and suppressing the free expression of Muslims on behalf of a “Zionist political agenda.”
Sameera Munshi, who is Muslim, wrote in a pair of social media posts that “the injustice and atrocities of this administration at home and abroad” and the removal of a commissioner who used a hearing on antisemitism to express her opposition to Zionism compelled her to resign.
“In this country, people of faith are having their free expression stripped away, and even their lives put at risk, because of their deeply held beliefs about Palestine, all for the sake of a Zionist political agenda,” Munshi wrote. “Even more pressing is this government’s unlawful killing of children and civilians in Iran at the urging of a genocidal state.”
U.S. President Donald Trump appointed Munshi to the advisory board of the commission in May, citing her record of having “courageously spoken out against forcing children to learn radical gender ideology in schools.”
