Brendan Boyle
D · U.S. House, PA-2 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Condemned the ICC prosecutor's May 2024 warrant applications against Israel's leaders “in the strongest possible terms,” saying “There is no moral equivalency between the State of Israel and Hamas,” and joined Republicans on the June 2024 ICC-sanctions bill and the June 2024 amendment barring the State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures. On the January 2025 ceasefire he said “The devastation that followed has claimed the lives of far too many innocent civilians” and called it a chance “to ease the suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza and deliver much-needed humanitarian relief”; on the first anniversary of October 7 he called for “a permanent ceasefire in the region.” He voted for the April 2024 aid package and the Antisemitism Awareness Act and against the July 2026 Massie amendment, but against the bill to force the paused bomb shipment (H.R.8369) and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, signed the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter to Netanyahu opposing West Bank annexation and cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (Mar 2026); years earlier he authored bills to keep federal retirement savings out of companies that boycott Israel (2015) and to stock precision-guided munitions for Israel (2017).
A flat 2, with a pull toward 1/2. His ICC record sits firmly at the pro-Israel end — he condemned the warrant applications and voted for ICC sanctions and for barring the Gaza Health Ministry's casualty figures — and he voted No on Massie and signed the April 2024 Gottheimer–Wilson letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s national-security supplemental, with its aid to Israel, to “an immediate vote.” What separates him from 1/2 is concern for Palestinian civilians in his own words without the self-defense frame: the January 2025 statement on the lives of “far too many innocent civilians” and the “suffering of innocent civilians in Gaza,” after an October 2024 call for a permanent ceasefire; his Nays on H.R.8369 and the anti-boycott bill and his West Bank Violence Prevention Act cosponsorship point the same way. Counter-case: 1/2 if the ICC record and his authored pro-Israel bills are weighed as leadership that outweighs one civilian-concern statement; those bills date from 2015 and 2017 and never moved, so they are not read as current leadership on the issue.
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