Jennifer McClellan
D · U.S. House, VA-4 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
Cosponsored Block the Bombs (H.R.3565) and the Ceasefire Compliance Act on July 21, 2026 — the 81st of Block the Bombs’ 82 cosponsors, six days after she voted No on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s $3.3 billion in military financing; she also cosponsored UNRWA restoration (Aug 2025) and in July 2026 objected to the NDAA’s Section 219 “to expand and merge American and Israeli defense capabilities, a provision that undermines our sovereignty and lacks any form of oversight.” She called for “an immediate bilateral ceasefire” in April 2024 while saying “Israel has a right to defend itself and neutralize the terrorists responsible for the October 7th attack, but it must do more to curb civilian casualties and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” and in July 2025 said “Every day, death and mass starvation take a greater toll on the people of Gaza.” She signed the 2025 letters demanding answers on the detentions of student activists Mahmoud Khalil (March) and Mohsen Mahdawi (April) and the August 2025 Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to demand a surge of infant formula into Gaza; on the West Bank, she joined most House Democrats on the September 2025 Schneider–Raskin letter opposing annexation and signed the January 2026 Welch–Khanna letter urging a stronger U.S. response to Israel’s moves to annex it, including the E-1 settlement. In October 2023, as a House Armed Services member, she said she was “committed to doing all I can to ensure Israel has the resources and support it needs to defend itself”; she was an original cosponsor of the “Standing with Israel” resolution and voted for the April 2024 aid package, H.Res.888, the “river to the sea” condemnation and the Human Shields Act, and against the 2025 ICC-sanctions bill and the Antisemitism Awareness Act, with Present on H.Res.894.
A flat 3. Two conditioning cosponsorships, UNRWA restoration and Gaza-civilian concern in her own words take her out of mainstream support. But the cosponsorships came late, signed six days after she voted to keep Israel’s $3.3 billion in military financing, and no roll-call vote of hers has withheld anything: she voted for the April 2024 package and paired her ceasefire call with Israel’s right to defend itself. Counter-case: 2/3 if the July 2026 signatures are read as positioning after the Massie vote (no statement of hers explains either); 3/4 on Block the Bombs plus the Ceasefire Compliance Act.
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