Connie Chan
D · U.S. House, CA-11 · Tier 5
Tier 5, “Critical on most positions”
SF Supervisor who advanced from the June 2026 primary to the November general for Pelosi’s open seat, finishing second with 29.7% behind Scott Wiener's 40.7% in a 12-candidate primary. Pelosi endorsed Chan, not Wiener. Pledges to be “an immediate sponsor of the Block the Bombs Act,” to “oppose all weapon sales to Israel until Israel becomes compliant in the Leahy Act,” and — “while Israel’s government continues to invade its neighbors, expand illegal settlements and pursue ethnic cleansing policies in the West Bank and prevent aid from entering Gaza” — that “the United States can not justify sending taxpayer money, weapons, or other aid to Israel”; named “the genocide of the Palestinian people” as a foreign-policy focus (Mission Local, May 2026; the campaign rewrote the section on Jul 16, 2026 and the current version instead runs a policy heading, “No More Money for Genocide”) and said yes at a Jan 2026 debate that Israel is committing genocide, and voted for San Francisco’s 2024 ceasefire resolution. Refuses AIPAC money and is endorsed by the Palestinian-rights group AROC Action — though, anomalously, an AIPAC-linked PAC network independently spent on ads boosting her, which she does not control. At the Oct 1, 2026 KQED–San Francisco Chronicle debate, the moderator noted that she had once said defensive aid such as Iron Dome funding should be packaged with humanitarian aid but that her campaign had recently said she supports a full arms embargo, and asked which it was; Chan answered “Because it has changed,” explaining, in Mission Local’s account, that it had become clear that even when aid is conditional on a ceasefire or humanitarian aid, the Israeli government is “time and again, violating the rights and committing a genocide and pushing forward the apartheid state.” PAL PAC, already among her endorsers, announced a “six-figure” ad buy for her in September 2026. Al Jazeera reported that at the October 1 debate she called for a “full arms embargo on the Israeli government” and told the moderators she would not support funding for Iron Dome; at the second debate, on October 5, she said, “We absolutely need to stop supporting the Israeli government,” and that on her first day in Congress “I will be ready to cast a vote on a full arms embargo.” At a rally with Rep. Ro Khanna on the UC Berkeley campus in the week of October 19, 2026, she said, as The New Arab reported, “We will not rest until we have a full arms embargo on the Israeli government” and “People in Gaza deserve more than lip service. They deserve a vote.”
A 5. Her line on weapons hardened during the campaign and has since been repeated. SF Gazetteer reported in April 2026 that, after leaving the door open to defensive weapons, she said “we can no longer justify sending U.S. taxpayer money, aid, or weapons to Israel”; in July she told The Intercept, “In Congress, we will oppose any aid to Israel.” Her platform pledges to be “an immediate sponsor of the Block the Bombs Act” and to “oppose all weapon sales to Israel until Israel becomes compliant in the Leahy Act.” At the October 1 debate, asked about her earlier view that defensive aid such as Iron Dome funding should be packaged with humanitarian aid, she answered, “Because it has changed,” affirming the full arms embargo her campaign had announced and, Al Jazeera reported, refusing funding for Iron Dome; at the October 5 debate she said again, “I will be ready to cast a vote on a full arms embargo.” She names the genocide and apartheid in her own words, voted for San Francisco’s 2024 ceasefire resolution as a supervisor and refuses AIPAC money. No BDS, right-of-return or anti-Zionist position is on record. Counter-case: a 4/5, since the full embargo dates only from the fall and her platform still words the sales ban as lasting “until Israel becomes compliant in the Leahy Act.”
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