Delia Ramirez
D · U.S. House, IL-3 · Tier 4/5
Tier 4/5, between “Critical / conditions aid” and “Critical on most positions”
Lead sponsor of the Block the Bombs Act (offensive-weapons-only; preserves Iron Dome); 'Israel is committing a genocide' (Sept. 2025); 'Silence is complicity' (June 2025); refuses AIPAC money. She also cosponsored Tlaib's genocide-recognition resolution (H.Res.876), is an original cosponsor of the 2025 and 2026 Nakba and right-of-return resolutions (H.Res.409, one of only eight, and H.Res.1289, May 14, 2026), and voted against H.Res.771, but keeps a two-state frame, condemned the Oct. 7 attack, and opposes anti-boycott laws but takes no position on BDS. She signed letters urging the State Department to affirm U.S. opposition to the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza (January 2024), backing refugee priority status for Gazans with U.S. citizen or permanent-resident relatives (June 2024), urging President Biden to sanction Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over incitement of settler violence (October 2024), demanding answers on the detentions of the student activists Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi (March and April 2025), condemning the Israeli government’s “use of starvation as a weapon of war” and rejecting the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (Tlaib’s 19-signer letter, June 2025) and urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel to allow a surge of aid into Gaza, above all infant formula (August 2025). Ramirez was an original cosponsor of Tlaib’s Lebanon war-powers resolution (H.Con.Res.83, Mar 27, 2026). In August and September 2026 Ramirez signed Tlaib’s letter demanding the release of 20-year-old US citizen Sama Safi from Israeli military detention and the Pocan–Quigley letter on Palestinian medical workers held by Israel without charge (Sep 24). On Oct 1 she co-signed Chuy García’s letter to Ambassador Huckabee on the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir, which says the attacks there reflect “an intentional policy of violence and terrorism inflicted by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank to further the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people” and urges the administration to “impose sanctions and a trade ban on settlements.” On Oct 6 she joined García, Tlaib, Summer Lee, Omar and Jayapal in a joint statement saying “Israel’s systematic annihilation of medical facilities and healthcare workers is not an accident or unfortunate consequence of war; it is an intentional policy designed to further occupation, apartheid, and genocide against the Palestinian people,” and demanding “an end to U.S. arms transfers to Israel, including the Trump Administration’s latest $2.8 billion sale of bombs” and passage of the Block the Bombs Act. On Oct 8 she signed the Tlaib–Green letter seeking the release of Ya’akub Ira Vijandre, a DACA recipient held by ICE for a year, which says DHS has cited “his advocacy for Palestine” among its grounds for holding him. Ramirez signed the 27-member statement led by Jim McGovern explaining the July 15, 2026 Massie Aye, which says existing human rights conditions on US security assistance “have not been meaningfully enforced.” When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court itself on Oct 9, 2026, she wrote: “Attacks on the ICC signal to authoritarians and warmongers they can violate human rights and international law with impunity.” On Oct 21, 2026 she wrote that “Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians, paid for by American taxpayers,” adding: “Whether by bombs or through starvation, the genocide has not ended. We must end it. We can start by passing my Block the Bombs Act.” The same day, after Israeli forces detained some 80 olive-harvest volunteers in the West Bank, she wrote that “occupation and settler violence” are crimes under international law and that settler violence “is being facilitated with Americans’ dollars.” On Oct 27, 2026, the day of Israel’s election, sharing a report on the thousands displaced from Hebron since the Oct 23 attack, she wrote that Netanyahu “has escalated his attacks on Palestinians—displacing thousands in the West Bank while continuing to bomb Gaza,” that “Americans are tired of their tax dollars being used to displace, murder, and collectively punish millions of Palestinians,” and: “We must end our complicity in Netanyahu’s campaign of terror. Not one more dollar. Not one more bomb.”
A 4/5. She wrote the Block the Bombs Act (83 members including her; Thomas Massie, R-KY, the only Republican, signed on June 3, 2026), says “Israel is committing a genocide” (September 2025) and cosponsors Tlaib’s genocide-recognition resolution (H.Res.876). As an original cosponsor of Tlaib’s 2025 and 2026 Nakba resolutions (H.Res.409, May 2025, one of only eight, and H.Res.1289, May 2026; she did not join the 2023 or 2024 ones), she is on record for the Palestinian right of return, a position that questions Israel’s legitimacy and reaches toward the Tier 6 end; she announced the 2026 one herself, joining Tlaib to “affirm Palestinian refugees’ rights.” In October 2026 she signed the joint statement demanding “an end to U.S. arms transfers to Israel”; Jesús García’s office released it. She voted No on H.Res.771 and the April 2024 aid package, refuses AIPAC money, is a Squad member and CPC Vice Chair, and endorses full-embargo Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. Short of a clean 5: Block the Bombs lists seven offensive munitions, from bunker busters to 155mm artillery, and no defensive system, and the joint statement pairs its demand with passing it; she keeps a two-state frame, condemned the Oct. 7 attack and opposes anti-boycott laws but has no BDS position.
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