John Hickenlooper
D · U.S. Senate, Colorado · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
AIPAC-backed, with $319,763 through AIPAC’s PAC and $50,000 through NORPAC in the 2026 cycle; voted for the April 2024 aid supplemental and to cut UNRWA, but crossed over on April 15, 2026 to back both Sanders resolutions — the bulldozer sale and the sale of 12,000 1,000-lb bombs. Wants Israel to defend itself and backs a return to a two-state solution. He had opposed every 2024 and 2025 round. Asked in June 2026 whether he backs continued military funding for Israel, he answered in Iran-war terms: “I want to make sure that Israel can defend itself. But I’m not going to greenlight any arms shipments that escalate this unwanted war.” In August, the Colorado Sun reported, he pointed to his votes to limit offensive weapons sales to Israel and said “I am horrified by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and there’s no question that Netanyahu has gone too far.” His January 2024 statement declining to back Sanders’ S.Res.504 said “The high rate of civilian casualties and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza needs to end,” but objected that the resolution gave the State Department too little time “before potentially cutting off all U.S. aid.” He is not calling to end US aid. On September 29, 2026 he voted to discharge S.Res.852, a section 502B(c) request for a State Department report on Israel’s human-rights practices like the one he declined to back in 2024; the motion failed 47–51. Asked in October 2026 whether the U.S. should provide more financial and military aid to Israel, he told the Colorado Sun: “Israel is more problematic in that we’ve had such a tragedy in Gaza and we see serious issues on the West Bank. Israel is one of our oldest allies — certainly our strongest ally — in the Middle East. But I’m guarded against giving them more offensive weapons and munitions. I think we should focus on making sure that they can defend themselves.”
A 2/3. His Senate votes match Cory Booker’s: he voted to table Sanders’ 2024 human-rights report request, for both 2024 aid packages and against every arms-block resolution in 2024 and 2025, then on April 15, 2026 voted to block both the bulldozer sale and the sale of 12,000 1,000-lb bombs, and in September 2026 to bring a similar report request to the floor. What separates him from Booker is his own words. The Colorado Sun reported in August that he pointed to his votes to limit offensive weapons sales, saying “I am horrified by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and there’s no question that Netanyahu has gone too far,” and in October he said he is “guarded against giving them more offensive weapons and munitions.” In the 2026 cycle $319,763 reached him through AIPAC’s PAC and $50,000 through NORPAC, most of it contributions earmarked by individual donors, and he has not broken with either. Counter-case: a flat 2, since he backs a two-state solution, wants Israel able to defend itself, is not calling to end aid, and answered a June 2026 question on military funding in Iran-war terms.
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