Gabe Amo
D · U.S. House, RI-1 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
A mainstream pro-Israel Democrat, first elected in a November 2023 special election and Vice Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee since January 2025. He voted Yea on H.Res.894 (the Dec 2023 resolution declaring anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism) and on the April 2024 Israel aid supplemental, and is a J Street endorsee; AIPAC, which had endorsed him, paused its endorsement in July 2026 — AIPAC PAC conduited $83,802 to his committee in the 2024 cycle and $11,566 so far in 2026, plus $1,000 from DMFI and a $2,800 DMFI independent expenditure supporting him in 2024 — $99,168 in pro-Israel lobby money in all. He has also pressed Israel on its conduct: his office published “Amo Reiterates Ceasefire Call” in September 2024, he demanded Netanyahu halt the planned occupation of Gaza City in August 2025, he led a November 2025 letter with 125 Democrats to Secretary Rubio on starvation in Gaza, and he voted against H.R.8369, the bill written to force delivery of the offensive-arms shipment Biden had paused. He also signed letters urging President Biden to sanction Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over incitement of settler violence (October 2024), demanding answers on the arrest of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi (April 2025) and urging a stronger U.S. response to Israel’s moves toward annexing the West Bank, including the E-1 settlement (January 2026), and joined most House Democrats on the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter opposing annexation. On July 15, 2026 he voted for the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing, saying “our dollars should not be divorced from our values” while pledging continued support for Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow. He has also cosponsored the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (H.R.1229), which would deepen U.S.-Israel military cooperation and extend the stockpile of U.S. weapons kept in Israel for its use through 2029, since May 2025. In June 2026 Amo signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, led by Reps. Becca Balint and Joaquin Castro, on Israel’s operations in southern Lebanon, saying Israel’s “targeted, mass destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure does not constitute Israeli self-defense” and asking that, if U.S.-origin arms were confirmed in those operations, the administration “stop arms transfers being used in these operations until these violations cease”; the letter also affirmed that “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
A 2/3. He votes the pro-Israel line on several headline measures — Yea on H.Res.894, which called anti-Zionism antisemitism, on the “river to the sea” resolution and on the April 2024 aid package, after signing the Gottheimer–Wilson letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate-passed supplemental, with its aid to Israel, to a vote — and $83,802 reached his campaign through AIPAC’s PAC (direct and earmarked) in the 2024 cycle and $11,566 in 2026. But he has broken from it repeatedly: Nay on the Antisemitism Awareness Act, on forcing the paused bomb shipment and on both ICC-sanctions bills, and on July 15, 2026 an Aye on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing. He explained that vote in conditioning terms: the United States must chart “a new course” that demands “accountability for how U.S. taxpayer dollars are used,” and “our dollars should not be divorced from our values.” He also pledged to keep supporting Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow: “This vote is not about abandoning Israel.” He has said “The suffering of civilians in Gaza is unacceptable” and led a November 2025 letter from 125 Democrats on feeding Palestinian civilians. Counter-case: a flat 3, taking the stated principle at its word.
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