Brittany Pettersen
D · U.S. House, CO-7 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
Pettersen co-led, with Rep. Ayanna Pressley, an August 2025 letter of more than 100 House members on starving infants in Gaza, saying “As a mom, I can’t fathom the desperation parents in Gaza are facing as they struggle to provide for their families” and “We need reassurance from the IDF that there are no restrictions on the delivery of baby formula”; she also signed Rep. Jason Crow’s May 2024 letter warning that Israel’s aid restrictions violate Section 620I and that “the Israeli government is risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance from the U.S.,” the March 2025 letter demanding answers on the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, the July 2025 letter on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter opposing West Bank annexation (with most House Democrats) and the September 2026 Mfume–Vindman letter on settler violence, and cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (Jul 2025). She voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment, joining the Colorado Democrats’ statement that “We should not be giving military aid to any country that does not comply with our own laws and values. The Netanyahu government has failed to meet these standards,” which also said “We support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.” Earlier she co-introduced, with sponsor Rep. Bryan Steil, the End Financing for Hamas and State Sponsors of Terrorism Act (Nov 2023), cosponsored the October 2023 Iron Dome supplemental, voted for the April 2024 package, H.Res.894, the Antisemitism Awareness Act and — splitting from most Democrats — the June 2024 amendment barring the State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures, and signed the January 2024 letter whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s genocide charge and the April 2024 Gottheimer–Wilson letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate-passed supplemental, with its aid to Israel, to a vote; she voted against H.R.8369, both ICC-sanctions bills and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill.
A 2/3. She signed the May 2024 letter saying Israel’s aid restrictions violate Section 620I and put its offensive aid at risk, and in July 2026 voted to strip Israel’s military financing on the ground that the Netanyahu government fails U.S. legal standards — two steps toward limiting weapons — while her concern for Gaza’s civilians is in her own voice and not tied to Israel’s defense (the August 2025 infant-formula letter she co-led). What keeps a foot at the pro-Israel end is her mainstream record: the Hamas-financing bill she co-led with Steil, the Iron Dome supplemental, the 2024 package, the IHRA bill, the casualty-figures amendment and the letter rejecting South Africa’s genocide case. Counter-case for a flat 2: the Massie vote and statement were aimed at the Netanyahu government with Israel’s right to defend itself reaffirmed, she has cosponsored none of the conditioning bills, and 102 other Democrats cast the same vote.
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