April McClain Delaney
D · U.S. House, MD-6 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
MD-6 incumbent (won the June 23, 2026 primary over predecessor David Trone). In an April 2024 questionnaire she opposed an *unconditional* ceasefire — allowing that “there could be a ceasefire immediately if Hamas would return the hostages” — and said the US “should not condition our aid to Israel”; she welcomed the October 2025 ceasefire agreement. She voted in Jan 2025 to sanction the ICC over its arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant and signed the Vindman–Schneider letter urging the ICC to reconsider them. In July 2026 she voted against the Massie amendment stripping Israel’s foreign military financing, saying her vote “should not be mistaken as support for unconditional military aid” and that “The United States should continue to support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and to defend itself,” while urging the Netanyahu government toward “a deeper commitment to humanitarian assistance” and “an end to settler violence on the West Bank.” She cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act in April 2026 and co-signed letters opposing West Bank annexation (September 2025, with most House Democrats), pressing Israel on Gaza aid (October 2025) and on settler attacks on the West Bank village of Umm al-Kheir (July 2026). AIPAC/DMFI is her all-time top donor (~$186K). She faces Republican Robin Ficker — a perennial long-shot candidate — and Green Party candidate Moshe Landman in the November general, where she is heavily favored.
A 2, narrowly. In her own words, concern for civilians comes beside Israel’s right “to defend itself”: her July 2026 statement on the Massie amendment urges “a deeper commitment to humanitarian assistance” in the sentence after that line, and in 2024 she said the U.S. “should not condition our aid to Israel.” In January 2025 she voted to sanction the ICC over the Netanyahu and Gallant warrants and signed a letter urging the court to rescind them. But she has co-signed letters that press Israel’s own conduct without invoking its self-defense: the July 2026 letter to Netanyahu protesting the settlers’ fence at Umm al-Kheir and the soldiers who “shot tear gas toward the children,” and an October 2025 letter stating that “The Israeli government must facilitate a continuous and unobstructed surge of humanitarian aid.” In April 2026 she cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act. She has led no Israel legislation. Counter-case for 1/2: the ICC vote and letter, and her own words, which pair concern for civilians with Israel’s defense.
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