James Walkinshaw
D · U.S. House, VA-11 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Explaining his No on the July 2026 Massie amendment, which he opposed alongside J Street because its “overly broad language threatened important peacebuilding work,” he said “the current Israeli government's military campaigns have caused massive civilian casualties in Gaza and Lebanon, destabilized the region, and not made Israelis safer,” that he is “particularly troubled by illegal settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank,” that Israel “should pay for its own weapons” once the current aid agreement expires, and that he “will not support” Netanyahu's proposed expanded security arrangement “until there is an end to illegal West Bank settlement activity, real progress toward peace and reconstruction in Gaza, and an end to Netanyahu's failed, never-ending total war approach.” Since taking office in September 2025 he has voted No on Massie and against the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, and cosponsored the Gaza humanitarian-aid resolution (H.Res.473) and the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (Oct 2025) as well as the U.S.–Israel Defense Partnership Act (Jan 2026) and, in October 2026, the Stop the Settlements Act, which would sanction backers of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and bar trade in settlement goods. His campaign platform calls for “a two-state solution that secures peace, prosperity, and freedom for Palestinians and Israelis.” In September 2025 he joined most House Democrats in a letter urging Netanyahu’s government “to refrain from steps toward unilateral annexation” of West Bank territory.
A flat 2, with the case open toward 2/3. His concern for Palestinian civilians is in his own words and not framed around Israel's self-defense — massive civilian casualties in Gaza and Lebanon, settler violence — and he tied any expanded security arrangement to an end to settlement activity and the war and said Israel should pay for its own weapons. In October 2026 he put the settlement condition into a bill, cosponsoring the Stop the Settlements Act. But sanctions on settlements don’t limit arms, his words came in the statement explaining a vote to keep the military financing flowing, and his short record holds no arms-limiting act. Counter-case: 2/3, on the settlement condition now backed by a bill.
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