Andrew Clyde
R · U.S. House, GA-9 · Tier 1/2
Tier 1/2, between “Firmly pro-Israel” and “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Explaining his Nay on the April 2024 package (H.R.8034) in House debate, he objected to “over $9 billion for humanitarian aid in Hamas-controlled Gaza and the West Bank” and said “If we are feeding Gaza, we are feeding Hamas”; backing the November 2023 Israel-only supplemental, of which he was an original cosponsor, he said “This is not time for a cease-fire or a pause in any way, Mr. Speaker. This is a time to crush Hamas, eliminate their leadership, and obliterate their fighters.” In December 2023 he led 14 Republicans in a letter demanding answers from the New York Times, Reuters, AP and CNN about freelance Gaza photojournalists present at the October 7 attack, warning that silence would signal “acceptance of complicity in Hamas’ brutal war crimes”, and he was an original cosponsor of Bob Good's resolution denouncing calls for a Gaza ceasefire and for a Palestinian state (Mar 2024). He voted against the February 2024 Israel-only supplemental because it was not offset — “I ultimately would have voted in favor of this current legislation if it was fully offset by reductions in other spending” — and against the Antisemitism Awareness Act (no stated reason found), and for the bill forcing delivery of the paused bomb shipment, both ICC sanctions bills, the ban on citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures and the September 2026 college anti-boycott bill, and against the Greene and Massie cuts. He authored the bill re-designating the Houthis a terrorist organization, which passed the House 285-135 in April 2024. In January 2024 he signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel.
A 1/2, with a strong case for a clean 1. None of his three Nays is a step toward withholding weapons: he explained the February 2024 Nay as a demand for offsets, the April 2024 Nay as opposition to its unoffset borrowing and Gaza humanitarian aid, and he backed the bill forcing delivery of the paused bomb shipment and both ICC sanctions bills. There is no concern for Palestinian civilians in his own words — he argued against feeding Gaza — which rules out a flat 2. Counter-case: a clean 1 if “If we are feeding Gaza, we are feeding Hamas,” the anti-ceasefire speech and his leading the letter on Gaza photojournalists are read as a hardline brand with initiative behind it; against that, his only authored Middle East bill in the window targets the Houthis rather than legislating on Israel.
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