Mike Levin
D · U.S. House, CA-49 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
Explaining his No on the July 2026 Massie amendment, he said “Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza,” called settler violence against Palestinian families “abhorrent,” said “Palestinians deserve to live free from bombardment, displacement, and blockade,” and pledged that as the next U.S.–Israel security memorandum is negotiated “I will insist it include real accountability,” so that U.S. aid “must never underwrite settlement expansion, annexation, or the collective punishment of civilians.” Earlier he said shortages of food and medicine “demand that Israel” keep increasing the flow of aid to Gaza “without disruptions” (Jul 2025) and opposed Netanyahu's new settlement approvals as “intended to erase the prospects of a Palestinian state” (Sep 2025), and that month signed, with most House Democrats, the Schneider–Raskin letter opposing West Bank annexation. His votes sit closer to the pro-Israel end than his words: he joined Republicans on the Republican standalone Israel aid bill (Feb 2024), both ICC-sanctions bills (Jun 2024, Jan 2025) and the June 2024 amendment barring the State Department from citing Gaza Health Ministry casualty figures, voted for the April 2024 package (and signed the letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s $95 billion supplemental, with its aid to Israel, to a vote) and H.Res.894, and voted No on Massie. He voted against H.R.8369 and the September 2026 anti-boycott bill, and cosponsored the Gaza humanitarian-aid resolutions of December 2023 and 2025 and the West Bank Violence Prevention Act (Sep 2025). In January 2024 he signed the Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel.
A flat 2, with the case open toward 2/3. His concern for Palestinian civilians is in his own words and free of the self-defense frame — the July 2025 aid statement, the September 2025 settlements statement and the July 2026 lines on Gaza's dead and on bombardment, displacement and blockade — and the July 2026 pledge to tie the next aid memorandum to accountability is conditioning talk. But that pledge came in the statement explaining a vote to keep the military financing flowing, and his votes include both ICC-sanctions bills and the ban on citing Gaza Health Ministry figures, and his calls for Netanyahu to go do not change that. Counter-case: 2/3 if the memorandum pledge, the settlement opposition and his humanitarian-aid cosponsorships are read as criticism of the war's conduct; he has authored no Israel legislation, so nothing points toward 1.
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