Jeff Hurd
R · U.S. House, CO-3 · Tier 1/2
Tier 1/2, between “Firmly pro-Israel” and “Mainstream pro-Israel”
As a candidate in 2024 he wrote “I support Israel 100%” and, in May 2024, endorsed AIPAC’s post that it is “dangerous and counter to American interests to deny our ally the weapons necessary to remove Hamas from power” with “This is 100% correct.” In Congress since January 2025 he has voted for sanctions on the International Criminal Court over the Netanyahu and Gallant warrants, against the 2025 Greene amendment to cut $500 million in Israeli missile-defense aid and the 2026 Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing, for final passage of H.R.8595 and the September 2026 college anti-boycott bill, and against every 2026 Iran and Lebanon war-powers resolution; he cosponsored the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (H.R.1229), and his 2025 annual report lists among letters he signed a “Letter to Ireland Taoiseach: Anti Israel Legislation.” In August 2025 he went to Israel on the American Israel Education Foundation’s trip for House Republicans and met Prime Minister Netanyahu, saying afterward that Israeli officials’ “unified message was clear: peace requires security, and security requires dismantling Hamas.” On the third anniversary of October 7 he recalled “visiting Kibbutz Nir Oz and seeing firsthand what was left behind”; his campaign platform has no Israel plank, and he declined a June 2026 Colorado Sun questionnaire that asked whether military funding for Israel should continue. In the Sun’s October 2026 general-election guide he said he supports continued military assistance to Israel but “I don’t believe that assistance should depend on unrelated political conditions or budgetary offsets”; by the Sun’s account he also backs continued humanitarian assistance for people in Gaza and other innocent civilians “affected by the scourge of Hamas and by the Muslim Brotherhood.”
A 1/2, not a clean 1. Every Israel vote he has cast sits at the pro-Israel end, and as a candidate he endorsed AIPAC’s case against withholding weapons from Israel — zero daylight, but support rather than leadership: he has written no Israel legislation, holds no Israel-related caucus role and has no hardline brand, and his cosponsorship and the Ireland letter were joined, not led. His nods to Gaza’s civilians come inside support for the war: after his August 2025 trip he said the war could end “only if the United States continues supporting Israel’s right to defend itself while pushing for the safe return of all the hostages while minimizing civilian harm” (Daily Sentinel, September 2025), and his backing for continued humanitarian aid for people in Gaza and other innocent civilians “affected by the scourge of Hamas and by the Muslim Brotherhood” (Colorado Sun, October 2026) lays the harm at Hamas’s door and comes alongside his view that military aid should not depend on “unrelated political conditions,” which rules out a flat 2. Counter-case: none on the present record.
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elect26 places 2026 midterm candidates on a six-tier spectrum, from 1 (most pro-Israel) to 6 (most critical of Israel).