Lori Trahan
D · U.S. House, MA-3 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
Voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment to strip Israel’s $3.3 billion in military financing, explaining that Netanyahu “has used American military assistance funding to carry out atrocities in Gaza, embolden violent settlers in the West Bank, and continue indiscriminate bombing in Lebanon” and that “the American people should not be asked to write a blank check,” while affirming “Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state”; she cosponsored the Ceasefire Compliance Act in June 2026. Her March 2024 ceasefire call said “Israel’s right to defend itself, like any nation, is not without bounds” and that “the deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinian families – is unacceptable,” and in July 2025 she wrote “More than 2 million people, including thousands of children, are starving in Gaza.” She signed the October 2024 letter urging President Biden to sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over incitement of settler violence, the 2025 letters on the detention of the student activists Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, the August 2025 letter urging Secretary Rubio to demand that Israel “immediately facilitate a massive surge of humanitarian aid” into Gaza, infant formula included, and, with most House Democrats, the September 2025 letter opposing unilateral annexation of the West Bank. She voted for the April 2024 aid package, the “river to the sea” resolution and the Antisemitism Awareness Act (Present on H.Res.894), and against the bill to force the paused bomb shipment, both ICC-sanctions bills and the 2026 anti-boycott bill. In February 2023 she was one of 15 House Democrats on a J Street delegation that went to Hebron; at Temple Israel of Boston in June 2023, Mondoweiss reported, she said “Hebron was the toughest day for all of us,” recalling “doors boarded up” so residents could not leave the street and “children the age of my daughters and younger,” and that “you just want to sprinkle magic dust right there upon the spot and change their situation.” Mondoweiss also reported that she saw Susiya, in the Hebron Hills, and described its families as “living with the fear and the threat, that the land will be taken away at any moment, they will be displaced.”
A flat 3. Her July 2026 Aye on cutting all of Israel’s military financing, explained in her own words as refusing Netanyahu “a blank check” for “atrocities in Gaza,” and her Ceasefire Compliance Act cosponsorship are two acts toward limiting weapons, and her concern for Palestinian civilians stands on its own (“starving in Gaza,” Jul 2025). Both acts came in summer 2026, though, after a record that — apart from the May 2024 Crow–Deluzio letter she signed urging President Biden to weigh “withholding specific arms transfers” while Israel restricted aid into Gaza — backed the April 2024 aid package (she signed the letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s national-security package, with its aid to Israel, to “an immediate vote”), the “river to the sea” resolution and the Antisemitism Awareness Act; she frames the Massie vote as pressure on Netanyahu while affirming Israel as a Jewish state with a right to defend itself, has not cosponsored Block the Bombs and has not used the word genocide. Counter-case both ways: 3/4 if the Massie vote — a vote to cut all military financing, not only offensive arms — is weighed as heavily as a Block the Bombs cosponsorship; 2/3 if two acts from the same summer are weighed against the earlier voting record.
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