Marcy Kaptur
D · U.S. House, OH-9 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
An original cosponsor of Casten’s Ceasefire Compliance Act (Feb 23, 2026), she signed the March 2024 Rafah letter warning that an invasion contravening NSM-20 “should not be supported by U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance” and the January 2024 letter opposing the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza — but in July 2026 she voted No on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing. Her votes are otherwise mainstream pro-Israel: Iron Dome replenishment (2021), H.R.340, H.Res.888, the “river to the sea” resolution, the Antisemitism Awareness Act and the April 2024 aid package (H.R.8034), which her office described as funding “to allow Israel to defend itself against Iran and enable the delivery of humanitarian assistance to Gaza”; she voted Present on H.Res.894 and against H.R.8369 and both ICC-sanctions bills. Her statements call for a UN-brokered truce and two states —“This war must end. A ‘ceasefire’ is not enough” (Sep 2024) — and later mourn “the tens of thousands of Palestinian lives lost” (Oct 2025) and say “Humanitarian aid must be able to reach besieged areas unimpeded” (Jan 2025), though in May 2024 she blamed Gaza’s near-starvation on Hamas, which she said had left Gazans “to fend for themselves.” In October 2024 she signed the letter urging President Biden to sanction Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over incitement of settler violence; in 2025 she signed the March letter demanding answers on the detention of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, the August Pressley–Pettersen letter urging Secretary Rubio to press Israel to allow a 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 September 2026 she signed the 72-member letter urging Netanyahu to contain settler violence in the West Bank. In June 2026 Kaptur 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. She was an original cosponsor of Casten’s Ceasefire Compliance Act in February 2026, which would bar the use of U.S.-origin weapons in the West Bank and Gaza unless certain conditions are met. She signed the March 2024 Rafah letter, which said a ground invasion running counter to NSM-20 “should not be supported by U.S. taxpayer-funded assistance,” the January 2024 letter against the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza and the October 2024 letter urging sanctions on Israeli ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir over settler violence, and she is an original cosponsor of Jayapal’s 2025 resolution on humanitarian aid to Gaza. On October 26, 2026 she cosponsored McCollum’s Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act. She voted Present on H.Res.894 and against forcing the paused bomb shipment and both ICC-sanctions bills. No AIPAC or DMFI money reached her campaigns in the last three cycles. The case for 2/3: five months after that cosponsorship she voted No on the Massie amendment; she voted for the April 2024 aid package, the IHRA-based Antisemitism Awareness Act and the “river to the sea” resolution; and her own statements stay in a UN-truce, two-state frame with no call to withhold weapons, while in May 2024 she put Gaza’s hunger on Hamas.
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