Jimmy Gomez
D · U.S. House, CA-34 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Los Angeles Democrat in Congress since 2017. On November 3, 2023 he said “the terribly high civilian toll inside Gaza is unacceptable and has reached a point where a cessation of hostilities is appropriate and prudent,” adding that the Jabalya camp strikes meant “Israel must reassess their counterterrorism approach” while affirming that “Israel has a right to defend its people”; in July 2024 he called on Netanyahu to resign and for a ceasefire “to stop the civilian suffering in Gaza.” He voted for the April 2024 aid package and against the July 2026 Massie amendment, cosponsored the 2019 anti-BDS resolution, and did not vote on the 2024 “river to the sea” resolution or the Antisemitism Awareness Act. He was an original cosponsor of Rep. Jayapal’s Gaza humanitarian-aid resolution (H.Res.473, June 2025) and in May 2024 co-signed the Crow–Deluzio letter urging President Biden to enforce Section 620I. On October 9, 2026 he cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (H.R.3045), which would sanction perpetrators of settler violence in the West Bank and officials connected to it. He voted for both June 2026 Lebanon war-powers resolutions, saying of the first (H.Con.Res.84) that he “voted to help ensure the U.S. doesn’t get involved in the conflict in Lebanon and to protect our troops from being drawn into another war in the Middle East,” and adding, “Hezbollah is a terrorist organization” (June 4, 2026).
A 2. His November 2023 call for a cessation of hostilities over a civilian toll in Gaza he called “unacceptable,” his criticism of the Jabalya strikes and his July 2024 call for a ceasefire “to stop the civilian suffering in Gaza” are real daylight on the conduct of the war. He did not vote on the “river to the sea” resolution, H.Res.894 or the Antisemitism Awareness Act, and voted Present on H.Res.927. But he has backed no measure limiting weapons to Israel: Yes on the April 2024 aid package, No on the July 2026 Massie amendment, and no Block the Bombs or Ceasefire Compliance Act cosponsorship, the gap his challenger has pressed him on. AIPAC endorsed him, and its PAC has given him $222,648 in direct and earmarked money in the 2026 cycle. Counter-case for 2/3: in May 2024 he co-signed the letter urging President Biden to enforce Section 620I, which warned that Israel was “risking its eligibility for further offensive security assistance,” and that month voted, with most Democrats, against the bill to force delivery of the bomb shipment President Biden had paused (H.R.8369); in September 2025 he signed, with most House Democrats, the Schneider–Raskin letter opposing unilateral annexation of the West Bank.
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