Brad Schneider
D · U.S. House, IL-10 · Tier 1
Tier 1, “Firmly pro-Israel”
Co-founder and co-chair of the House Abraham Accords Caucus and one of the House’s most prolific pro-Israel legislators: he was lead sponsor of the 2019 resolution opposing the BDS movement (H.Res.246, passed 398–17), led the 2023 resolution urging the EU to designate all of Hezbollah a terrorist organization, co-introduced with David Kustoff the bill to strip tax-exempt status from nonprofits that support Hamas (H.R.6408, passed the House 382–11 in April 2024), introduced the PEACE Act on Abraham Accords diplomacy (Apr 2025), and co-led the January 2025 letter urging the ICC to rescind its Netanyahu and Gallant warrants. He called conditioning aid “misguided and dangerous” (Nov 2023) and said “it is wrong to withhold even just one shipment of weapons to Israel” during the May 2024 arms pause; he voted to censure Rashida Tlaib, for H.R.7217, both ICC-sanctions bills, the casualty-figures amendment and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, against the Massie amendment, and cosponsored the anti-UNRWA Replace UNRWA Act (Jul 2026). He has also voiced humanitarian concern — “The world must not turn a blind eye to the fact that children are starving because of this war. It is Israel’s responsibility, and within its capacity, to address and resolve the situation” (Jul 2025) — and in December 2025 called for Itamar Ben Gvir’s removal after an Israeli audit documented hunger and violence against detainees in Israeli prisons. In January 2024 he signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel, and later that year letters urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s aid package to an immediate vote (April), asking the Treasury and State Departments to designate and sanction UNRWA employees accused of taking part in the October 7 attacks (May) and seeking a classified briefing on the Iranian government’s efforts to “promote and encourage anti-Israel protests” (July). On Oct 27, 2026, Jewish Insider reported, he wrote on X that “the gross, antisemitic campaign ad” by Rebellion PAC, an outside group backing Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan that blames U.S. aid to Israel for high grocery prices, “has no place in American political discourse,” that blaming U.S. support for Israel “for the economic pain in the country is beyond the pale,” and that it “follows a long tradition, dating back more than 1,000 years, of dangerously scapegoating Jews for a country’s ills.” In the same statement he condemned President Trump’s “vile, anti-Muslim attacks” on El-Sayed.
A clean 1. He leads on Israel rather than merely voting for it: legislation authored across a decade (the 2019 anti-BDS resolution, the Hezbollah resolution, Abraham Accords measures and earlier QME and anti-tunnel bills), co-chairmanship of the Abraham Accords Caucus, co-leadership of the Hamas-nonprofits bill and the ICC letter, and his own voice against conditioning aid and against the 2024 weapons pause — several kinds of leadership at once, several of them since October 2023. He does put some distance between himself and Israel’s government: the July 2025 starvation statement puts responsibility on Israel, he co-led the September 2025 letter against West Bank annexation, and he called for Ben Gvir’s removal; but that sits inside a firm pro-Israel posture and does not touch his votes. Counter-case: 1/2 if that humanitarian concern is weighed as the kind that separates a champion from a reliable supporter.
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