Joe Courtney
D · U.S. House, CT-2 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
Cosponsored the Ceasefire Compliance Act (May 19 2026) and was an original cosponsor of UNRWA funding restoration (Mar 2025), and in May 2024 signed the Jayapal–Dean letter urging Biden to “immediately withhold certain offensive military aid to the Israeli government” before the Rafah assault. In February 2024 he called for a negotiated ceasefire, saying “putting an end to the fighting is the only way to protect Palestinian civilians” while calling Israel’s campaign a “rightful operation to degrade Hamas”; in July 2025 he said the Israeli government “should stop the stonewalling of the U.N. aid delivery system” in Gaza, “where famine conditions have set in”; in August 2025 he signed the Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to demand a surge of infant formula into Gaza, and in September joined most House Democrats on the Schneider–Raskin letter to Netanyahu and his ministers opposing annexation of the West Bank. In April 2024 he signed the Gottheimer–Wilson letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s national-security supplemental, with its aid to Israel, to a vote. He voted for the April 2024 aid package (citing missile defense and humanitarian aid), H.Res.894, the “river to the sea” resolution, the Antisemitism Awareness Act and — one of 33 Democrats — the September 2026 anti-boycott university bill, and No on the July 2026 Massie amendment; he voted against the bill to force the paused bomb shipment and both ICC-sanctions bills.
A 2/3. The Ceasefire Compliance Act cosponsorship is a step toward limiting weapons, he co-signed the 2024 Rafah letter urging Biden to withhold offensive aid, his UNRWA support is long-standing, and his 2025 statements voice concern for Palestinian civilians without self-defense language (“thousands of innocent non-combatant Palestinians who need immediate help,” Jan 2025; the famine statement, Jul 2025), though his February 2024 call for a negotiated ceasefire also said “Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas’ barbaric attacks.” Pulling the other way is a voting record that takes the pro-Israel side almost everywhere it is tested: the 2024 aid package, H.Res.894, the “river to the sea” resolution, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, No on the Massie amendment, and a Yea on the 2026 anti-boycott bill that only 33 Democrats cast. In the 2024 cycle $27,223 reached his campaign through AIPAC’s PAC (direct and earmarked), with no public break; none has come in the 2026 cycle. Counter-case: a flat 3, since no AIPAC money has come in the 2026 cycle and the conditioning cosponsorship stands; toward a flat 2 if the anti-boycott vote is read as outweighing a cosponsorship that came three months after the bill was introduced.
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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).