Herb Conaway
D · U.S. House, NJ-3 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Physician and freshman Democrat (in office since January 2025) whose one press statement on Gaza, on the second anniversary of October 7, said “we cannot ignore Israel’s military response in Gaza, which has resulted in staggering civilian casualties and widespread displacement,” that “Gaza’s population now faces an overwhelming humanitarian crisis,” and that “Israelis and Palestinians alike deserve safety, dignity, and the opportunity to determine their own futures” (Oct 2025). He voted against the January 2025 ICC-sanctions bill and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, and against the 2025 Greene and July 2026 Massie amendments to cut Israel’s aid. In August 2025 he joined an AIPAC-affiliated American Israel Education Foundation trip to Israel. He was an original cosponsor of Pramila Jayapal’s June 2025 resolution calling for urgent humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza (H.Res.473), signed the 2025 letters seeking medical visas for Gaza’s children, urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel for “a massive surge of humanitarian aid” and infant formula into Gaza, opposing West Bank annexation and demanding answers on the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (H.R.3045) in February 2026, and co-sponsored a June 2026 amendment to the FY2027 NDAA to bar funds for military action against Iran without congressional authorization.
A flat 2, with the case open both ways. He has no leadership on the issue, and his votes keep Israel’s aid flowing (No on Greene and Massie) while breaking with the pro-Israel side on the ICC-sanctions and anti-boycott bills. What sets him at a flat 2 rather than 1/2 is the October 2025 statement: concern for Gaza’s civilians in his own words, made without self-defense language, that names Israel’s military response as the cause of “staggering civilian casualties.” The August 2025 infant-formula letter he signed, which says that from March to May 2025 “the Netanyahu government did not allow the entry of any humanitarian aid into Gaza,” points the same way; the March 2025 letter on Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is aimed at the Trump administration and adds less. Counter-case: 2/3 if that attribution is read as criticism of the war’s conduct, or 1/2 if his humanitarian words and his cosponsorship of the Gaza-aid resolution are weighed against the AIEF trip and his Massie No; he has taken no step toward limiting weapons.
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