Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
D · U.S. House, WA-3 · Tier 1/2
Tier 1/2, between “Firmly pro-Israel” and “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Democrat with one of the most consistently pro-Israel records in her caucus: she voted to censure Rashida Tlaib (Nov 2023), for H.Res.894 equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, for the Republican standalone aid bill (Feb 2024), the bill to force the paused bomb shipment (May 2024), ICC sanctions (June 2024 and Jan 2025) and the September 2026 anti-boycott university bill, and against the 2025 Greene and 2026 Massie cuts. At an August 2025 town hall, amid famine warnings in Gaza, she said “America’s national interest is better served when there is a liberal democracy in the Middle East, and right now, that is Israel”; her Gaza-civilian lines (“humanitarian needs of innocent civilians in Gaza”, Feb 2024; “get humanitarian relief to innocent civilians in Gaza and Ukraine”, Apr 2024) came alongside support for “Israel’s defense” and a vote to “help Israel defend itself”. In January 2024 she signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel, and in October 2024 the Lawler–Moskowitz letter warning UN Secretary-General Guterres that any downgrade of Israel’s standing at the General Assembly would bring “a corresponding downgrade of U.S. financial, material and political support to the U.N.”
A 1/2, not a clean 1. The voting record is zero-daylight — every Israel measure the Republican majority brought, including H.R.8369, ICC sanctions and the anti-boycott bill, save the November 2023 aid bill she opposed because “They tied cuts in the IRS budget to funding for Israel” — and her August 2025 answer to a town hall about child deaths in Gaza defended Israel as the region's liberal democracy. Her civilian language — “humanitarian needs of innocent civilians in Gaza” (Feb 2024), “humanitarian relief to innocent civilians in Gaza and Ukraine” (Apr 2024) and what The Chronicle called “sorrow over civilian casualties” (Jan 2024) — comes each time beside support for Israel’s defense or its right to defend itself, which reads as positioning, not concern for Palestinian civilians. She is short of a clean 1 because none of this is leadership: she has written no Israel legislation and runs no pro-Israel fundraising brand; her decisive Aye on the September 2026 rule that brought the anti-boycott bill to the floor is procedural, though it could be weighed toward 1.
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