Debbie Wasserman Schultz
D · U.S. House, FL-20 · Tier 1
Tier 1, “Firmly pro-Israel”
Co-chair of the bipartisan Abraham Accords Caucus and lead sponsor of the BIRD Energy and U.S.-Israel Energy Center Reauthorization Act (2024, reintroduced 2025) and H.Res.1147 (Apr 2024), which demands accountability for sexual violence during the October 7 attack; she also founded the Congressional Jewish Caucus (Feb 2025). She broke with most Democrats to vote for the November 2023 Israel-only bill — “as a Jew, as a Zionist and as the representative of a large Jewish community, I personally needed to cast my vote to stand by Israel” — the Tlaib censure, both ICC-sanctions bills, the June 2024 amendment barring the State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, and voted No on the Greene and Massie cuts; she opposed H.R.8369 in May 2024 as “a partisan stunt.” During the 2024 Rafah weapons pause she warned that “any perceived daylight between our governments emboldens our enemies” and said Hamas “wants to maximize the civilian toll of this operation as part of their cowardly PR campaign,” and she dismissed the ICJ’s July 2024 advisory opinion as the ruling of the “so-called ‘International Court of Justice’.” She also signed the January 2024 letter whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s genocide charge, the April 2024 letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s aid package to an immediate vote so that “critical aid is delivered to Israel and our other democratic allies,” the May 2024 letter urging terrorism sanctions on UNRWA employees and the July 2024 letter of 31 members seeking a classified briefing on the Iranian government’s efforts to “promote and encourage anti-Israel protests.”
A clean 1. She leads on Israel rather than voting the line: she co-chairs the Abraham Accords Caucus, wrote the U.S.-Israel energy-cooperation reauthorization and the October 7 sexual-violence resolution, hosted the February 2024 event and co-led the March 2024 Jewish members’ statement on Hamas’s sexual violence, and founded the Congressional Jewish Caucus. Her votes are close to zero-daylight — she split from most Democrats on the November 2023 Israel-only bill, the Tlaib censure, both ICC bills, the casualty-figures amendment and the anti-boycott bill — and her Gaza humanitarian lines come framed by Israel’s defense or by blame on Hamas (“Palestinian civilians used as human shields”, May 2024; aid for “innocent Palestinians who have been victims of Hamas as well”, Jan 2025). Her Nay on H.R.8369 was an objection to a partisan bill, not daylight, and her complaints about Netanyahu’s 2024 speech concerned U.S. politics and a lack of detail on his plans for the hostages and the Biden–Harris peace framework. No concern of her own for Palestinian civilians apart from Israel’s defense was found, so there is no case toward 2.
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