Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
D · U.S. House, NY-14 · Tier 4
Tier 4, “Critical / conditions aid”
NY-14 incumbent. She won the June 23, 2026 primary with 87% and faces Republican Diamant Hysenaj in November. Called Gaza an “unfolding genocide” on the House floor in 2024 and said at the February 2026 Munich Security Conference that unconditional U.S. aid “enabled a genocide in Gaza,” cosponsors the Block the Bombs Act, backed the “Not on Our Dime” campaign, co-sponsored Tlaib’s genocide-recognition and Nakba resolutions, and called Israel an apartheid state in 2021. As of April 2026 she opposes all US military aid to Israel — including Iron Dome funding, arguing Israel “is well able to fund the Iron Dome system” itself — and has pledged to oppose codifying the IHRA antisemitism definition into law. That Iron Dome stance is a reversal, though: she backed strengthening it during the genocide (an April 2024 joint statement, and a July 2025 vote against stripping its funding), turning only at the Mar 31, 2026 DSA endorsement call, where she also said “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never” — accurate as to authorization votes, but narrower than the defensive-aid support she had until then openly defended. After voting No on the April 2024 Israel aid package she co-signed a 19-member statement saying “We believe strongly in Israel’s right to self-defense” and “All of us support strengthening the Iron Dome and other defense systems.” She was also a leading 2024 surrogate for the Biden–Harris ticket, campaigning for it after calling the assault a genocide on the House floor in March 2024; at the August 2024 convention she told delegates Harris “is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza,” six days after the administration approved about $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel. She signed the January 2024 Pressley–Raskin letter opposing the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, the June 2024 letter backing refugee priority status for Gazans with U.S. citizen or permanent-resident relatives, Tlaib’s June 2025 letter of 19 members condemning the Israeli government’s use of starvation as a weapon and rejecting the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and the August 2025 Pressley–Pettersen letter urging a surge of infant formula into Gaza; in 2025 she also signed letters to the administration on the detention of student activists Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi. In August 2026 Ocasio-Cortez signed Tlaib’s letter demanding the release of 20-year-old US citizen Sama Safi from Israeli military detention. On Oct 1, 2026 Ocasio-Cortez became an original cosponsor of the Stop the Settlements Act (H.R.10642), which would sanction those who build or expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and ban imports of settlement goods. At a Sep 27, 2026 town hall in Ithaca she urged students to resist campus crackdowns on protest, including over Palestine: “Whether it’s the issue about Palestine or many others … we have to respond to that first crackdown” (New York Post). On Oct 16, 2026 she transferred $1 million to the Abdul for Michigan Victory Fund, the joint fundraising committee of Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Michigan Democratic Party.
A 4, held there by how she campaigned. Her record reaches toward 4/5: she named the genocide on the House floor in March 2024, cosponsors Block the Bombs and the genocide resolution, was an original cosponsor of eight 2025 resolutions to block arms sales to Israel (four by Jayapal, four by Tlaib), voted No on the April 2024 package, “river to the sea,” IHRA and the 2026 anti-boycott bill, and since April 2026 would end all US military aid, Iron Dome included — and voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment to strip Israel’s $3.3 billion in military financing; and, as an original cosponsor of four of Tlaib’s Nakba resolutions since 2022 (H.Res.1123, H.Res.388, H.Res.409 and H.Res.1289), she is on record for the Palestinian right of return, a position that questions Israel’s legitimacy and reaches toward the Tier 6 end. Two things hold her at 4. She backed Iron Dome during the genocide, with an April 2024 joint statement and a July 2025 vote against stripping its funding, until that April reversal. And she campaigned for the Biden–Harris ticket after naming the genocide: at the August 2024 convention she told delegates Harris “is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza,” six days after the administration approved about $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel; Ilhan Omar answered that “working tirelessly” for a ceasefire “is really not a thing.” Her end-funding position also conditions US dollars rather than denying Israel arms it buys, and she goes no further: no total embargo, no BDS, no anti-Zionist self-ID. The only two-state words of hers found since 2023 are in two letters she co-signed: an October 2024 letter with more than 80 lawmakers urging sanctions on Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir (“a negotiated two-state solution”) and the January 2026 Welch–Khanna letter urging a stronger U.S. response to Israel’s moves to annex the West Bank (the same words); her own statements since speak of “a free Palestine, the release of the hostages, and a diplomatic solution” (September 2025).
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