Hillary Scholten
D · U.S. House, MI-3 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
A member of the Abraham Accords Caucus who in November 2023 co-led, with Reps. Norma Torres, Brad Schneider and Ritchie Torres, the Democratic statement rejecting “from the river to the sea,” and who split from most Democrats to vote for the June 2024 amendment barring the State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures, No on the July 2026 Massie amendment and for the September 2026 college anti-boycott bill; she also signed the April 2024 letter urging Speaker Johnson to put the Senate’s aid package to “an immediate vote” so that “critical aid is delivered to Israel,” voted for that package, H.Res.894 and the Antisemitism Awareness Act, cosponsored the October 2023 Iron Dome supplemental, and signed the May 2025 Democratic statement crediting Israel with having “facilitated the entry of 1.78 million tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza.” In July 2025 she said “The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a full-blown crisis, with innocent women and children who are starving. They deserve regular access to food and water. It’s a basic human right,” while adding that Hamas “started this war and can end it today” and “every life lost is on their hands”; in August 2025 she signed the Pressley–Pettersen letter on infant formula, which notes that between March and May 2025 “the Netanyahu government did not allow the entry of any humanitarian aid into Gaza”; in September 2025 she signed, with most House Democrats, the letter urging Netanyahu’s government “to refrain from steps toward unilateral annexation” of the West Bank; and in June 2026 she cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act. She voted against the November 2023 Republican bill, H.R.8369 (“The United States’ support for our ally, Israel, is ironclad”) and both ICC-sanctions bills. At an Oct 12, 2026 event on antisemitism at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield with Josh Gottheimer, she said, “I want American Jews, Michigan Jews, to feel like they have an ally and a champion,” and that DSA-aligned candidates gain ground on healthcare, jobs and corruption while “people don’t even recognize the underlying current of the U.S.-Israel relationship or the antisemitism that is a part of that” (Jewish Insider; both remarks are in the event recording, released Oct 16, 2026 on the Call Me Back podcast).
A flat 2, with a case for 1/2. The pro-Israel record is substantial — co-lead of the “river to the sea” statement, Abraham Accords Caucus membership, the Iron Dome supplemental, the anti-boycott and casualty-figures votes, No on Massie, and a 2025 statement crediting Israel’s aid deliveries — but none of it is authored Israel legislation or caucus leadership, so she is short of 1. What holds her at 2 is concern for Gaza’s civilians that is not framed by Israel’s defense: her July 2025 “basic human right” statement on starving women and children, and the August 2025 formula letter she signed, which faults the Netanyahu government’s blockade; the September 2025 letter against West Bank annexation, which she signed with most House Democrats, adds little to that. Counter-case: a 1/2, because her own statement lays “every life lost” on Hamas and pairs the concern with commitment to Israel’s security, and her votes split toward the pro-Israel side more often than most of her caucus.
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