Judy Chu
D · U.S. House, CA-28 · Tier 3/4
Tier 3/4, between “Pro-Israel, critical” and “Critical / conditions aid”
One of the strongest vote records among Block the Bombs cosponsors, and it is the votes rather than the signatures that carry it. She took the critical side on all three of the discriminating measures: Nay on H.R.8034, the April 2024 Israel supplemental; Nay on H.Res.883, the resolution condemning “from the river to the sea”; and Nay on H.R.340, the Hamas-financing bill. After the April 2024 vote she co-signed a 19-member statement saying “We believe strongly in Israel’s right to self-defense” and “All of us support strengthening the Iron Dome and other defense systems.” She cosponsored Block the Bombs (Aug 5, 2025), is an original cosponsor of UNRWA restoration (Mar 2025), and cosponsored the West Bank Violence Prevention Act. In 2024 she signed the January Pressley–Raskin letter urging the State Department to affirm U.S. opposition to the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, the June Durbin-led letter backing refugee priority status for Gazans with U.S. citizen or permanent-resident relatives and the October DeLauro–Van Hollen letter urging the Biden administration to sanction Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over incitement of settler violence. In 2025 she signed the letters demanding answers on the detentions of the student activists Mahmoud Khalil (March) and Mohsen Mahdawi (April), the August Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel for a massive surge of aid into Gaza, above all infant formula, and, with most House Democrats, the September Schneider–Raskin letter to Netanyahu and his ministers opposing annexation of the West Bank. In January 2026 she signed the Welch–Khanna letter urging Secretary Rubio to warn Israel off annexation and the E-1 settlement and to reimpose Biden-era West Bank sanctions. FEC shows zero pro-Israel lobby money, for or against, across all three cycles — verified, not merely unexamined. She does not use ‘genocide’ for Gaza; the four occurrences on her own foreign-policy page all refer to the Armenian Genocide. In September 2026 Chu signed the Dexter–Ruiz letter seeking the release of Gaza pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli detention without charge (Sep 8) and a 72-member letter urging Netanyahu to contain settler violence in the West Bank and “halt further settlement approvals” (Sep 24). Chu signed the 27-member statement led by Jim McGovern explaining the July 15, 2026 Massie Aye, which says existing human rights conditions on US security assistance “have not been meaningfully enforced.” In June 2026 Chu signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, led by Reps. Becca Balint and Joaquin Castro, on Israel’s operations in southern Lebanon, saying Israel’s “targeted, mass destruction of civilian homes and infrastructure does not constitute Israeli self-defense” and asking that, if U.S.-origin arms were confirmed in those operations, the administration “stop arms transfers being used in these operations until these violations cease”; the letter also affirmed that “Israel has a right to defend itself.”
A 3/4 leaning toward 4, earned on votes rather than cosponsorships. Among Block the Bombs cosponsors on the roster, Raskin (3/4) voted the Hamas-financing bill Yea and river-to-sea Yea; Scanlon (3/4) voted the April 2024 supplemental Yea; Takano (3/4) voted the Hamas-financing bill Nay but the river-to-sea Yea. Chu is on the critical side of all three, which is what puts her nearer 4 rather than in the middle of 3/4. She also cosponsored the Ceasefire Compliance Act (Sep 2, 2026) and voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment, signing the 27-member statement that explained it. What holds her short of a clean 4 is her May 2024 Yea on the IHRA bill (H.R.6090), where Scanlon and Takano voted Nay, along with the absence of genocide language in her own words, of any embargo or end-all-aid position, and of anything questioning Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state. With no lobby money, money plays no part in her placement.
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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).