Grace Meng
D · U.S. House, NY-6 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
A mainstream pro-Israel incumbent (since 2013) who won her June 2026 primary. AIPAC PAC conduit money is her single largest source by a wide margin: $74,700 in the 2022 cycle, $554,633 in 2024 and $219,908 so far in 2026 — $914,053 in pro-Israel lobby money since 2022 with DMFI, NORPAC and Pro-Israel America. She voted for the April 2024 Israel aid supplemental and pro-Israel ICC-sanctions measures. She has not cosponsored the Block the Bombs Act (H.R.3565), and no public statement of hers on conditioning aid was found. A break came on Feb 29, 2024, when — after months of constituent ceasefire organizing in Queens — she signed a moderate pro-Israel Democrats’ letter calling for a temporary pause, while saying neither people would know peace “as long as Hamas, PIJ and other terrorist groups reign with terror in Gaza.” In September 2025 she joined most House Democrats on the Schneider–Raskin letter urging Netanyahu’s government “to refrain from steps toward unilateral annexation” of West Bank territory, and in September 2026 she voted against the college anti-boycott bill (H.R.4795). She signed a letter urging Secretary Blinken not to support a “one-sided ceasefire” that would “return the region to the status quo,” and appeared at the Israel Day Parade in 2025 and 2026 — introduced from the platform in 2025 and named in the 2026 roll call of officials present. In January 2024 she signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel. On Oct 17, 2026, sharing a report on settlers’ attack on Palestinians and the American journalist Heidi Levine, she wrote “Enough,” that “Palestinians, journalists, and Israelis continue to be attacked,” and that she supports the West Bank Violence Prevention Act “to crack down on anyone in the West Bank who thinks violence and terror are the answer.” She has cosponsored that bill since July 15, 2026.
A 2, with a case for 1/2. Her record is mainstream pro-Israel: AIPAC’s PAC is her largest source by a wide margin ($554,633 in the 2024 cycle, $219,908 so far in 2026); she voted for the February and April 2024 aid bills, both ICC-sanctions bills and the June 2024 ban on citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures, and appeared at the Israel Day Parade in 2025 and 2026. What separates her from 1/2 is concern in her own words — “What’s happening in Gaza continues to be heartbreaking to me,” and “I have publicly supported humanitarian pauses and increased humanitarian aid in Gaza” (January 2024) — the February 2024 letter calling for a temporary pause, her Nays on forcing the paused bomb shipment (May 2024) and on the 2026 anti-boycott bill, her Yeas on both June 2026 Lebanon war-powers resolutions, and her July 2026 cosponsorship of the West Bank Violence Prevention Act. Counter-case for 1/2: in the same statement she argued against a return to the pre-October 7 ceasefire because Hamas would “return in full force,” the pause letter said there could be no peace while Hamas and other armed groups “reign with terror in Gaza,” in 2024 she signed letters urging an immediate vote on the Senate’s supplemental with its aid to Israel (April), terrorist designations and sanctions for UNRWA staff tied to October 7 (May) and a classified briefing on Iranian efforts “to promote and encourage anti-Israel protests” (July), she did not sign the November 2025 letter of 125 House Democrats on feeding Gaza’s civilians, and her 2026 anti-boycott Nay came two years after she was one of 16 Democrats to vote for the Anti-BDS Labeling Act.
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