Adam Gray
D · U.S. House, CA-13 · Tier 1/2
Tier 1/2, between “Firmly pro-Israel” and “Mainstream pro-Israel”
A first-term Democrat who split from most of his party to vote for the January 2025 bill sanctioning the ICC over the Netanyahu–Gallant warrants and No on Rep. Tlaib’s June 2026 Lebanon war-powers resolution (H.Con.Res.108), voted No on the July 2026 Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing, on which Democrats divided 103 to 98, and on the 2025 Greene cut to Israeli missile-defense aid, and cosponsored the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (May 2025). He was one of six Democrats to vote for the FY2027 defense bill, and in a September 2026 column defending that vote noted it “included support for Israel,” adding: “I do not condone the suffering inflicted on innocent people in Gaza. But leaving our only democratic ally in the Middle East exposed to Iran, Hamas and other militants would not make the world safer.” He voted against the September 2026 college anti-boycott bill and for all six Iran war-powers resolutions, saying in March 2026 that Iran’s regime has “funded terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah that have destabilized the Middle East and threatened our allies” but that “Congress carries the solemn responsibility to declare war.”
A 1/2, not a flat 2. His Israel votes since taking office in January 2025 are without daylight — the ICC-sanctions bill and No on the Lebanon war-powers resolution, each against most Democrats, and No on Massie and the Greene cut — and his one line of concern for Gaza’s civilians, written to defend his vote for a defense bill only six Democrats backed, is followed at once by Israel’s security: “I do not condone the suffering inflicted on innocent people in Gaza,” but leaving “our only democratic ally” exposed “would not make the world safer.” That pairing is what keeps a record at 1/2. He is short of a clean 1: no authored Israel legislation (none among his 8 sponsored bills), no caucus role, and his public brand is Central Valley water and agriculture; his anti-boycott Nay and Iran war-powers votes were the Democratic majority’s. A statement of concern for Gaza’s civilians that stands apart from Israel’s security would move him to a flat 2.
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