Ed Hershey
I · U.S. House, IL-4 · Tier 4
Tier 4, “Critical / conditions aid”
Working Class Party candidate and Chicago teacher. Asked by the Sun-Times in October 2024 what Congress should do about the war, he answered: “Stop arming Israel with the bombs that are used to carry out a massacre in Gaza.” His 2024 Ballotpedia survey described “Israel's war against the people of Gaza -- waged with American bombs, paid for by our taxes”; at an April 2026 debate he took part in, Chronicle Media reported that fellow candidate Chris Getty, the mayor of Lyons, was “the only candidate who declined to describe Israeli actions in Gaza as genocide”.
A flat 4. As a challenger, he has no votes in Congress, so his words are the record. He has made a clear pledge to stop arming Israel with the bombs used in Gaza, alongside a “massacre” framing. The genocide description is inferred from a reporter's summary of the April 2026 debate, not quoted in his own words, so it adds little. Short of 5: no stated embargo on defensive systems or all military aid, and his broader stance is a party-wide opposition to all U.S. wars; no position questioning Israel’s legitimacy.
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