Nellie Pou
D · U.S. House, NJ-9 · Tier 2/3
Tier 2/3, between “Mainstream pro-Israel” and “Pro-Israel, critical”
Cosponsored Block the Bombs (H.R.3565) on July 15, 2026, the same day she voted No on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing. Won't reject AIPAC money or say 'genocide'; backs a ceasefire and a two-state solution; represents Paterson's Palestinian-American community. She also calls for aid into Gaza. AIPAC-endorsed in 2024 though not for 2026, she took an AIPAC-funded Israel trip in Aug 2025. She also affirms Israel's right to self-defense, and AIPAC cited her opposition to BDS when it endorsed her in 2024. She voted for both June 2026 Lebanon war-powers resolutions, explaining her vote for Rashida Tlaib’s first one (H.Con.Res.84) as being “to prevent another unauthorized military conflict” (June 4, 2026).
A 2/3. On July 15, 2026 she cosponsored Block the Bombs (H.R.3565), which would limit transfers of offensive weapons to Israel, and the same day voted No on the Massie amendment to strip Israel’s military financing. It is her one step on weapons, and it came late. She says that on an AIPAC-funded trip in August 2025 she and other Democrats told Netanyahu to his face “what he is doing is absolutely wrong with respect to humanitarian aid, the war on Gaza,” and she voted against the 2025 ICC-sanctions bill and the 2026 anti-boycott bill. In 2025 she also signed the letter demanding answers on the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil (March) and joined most House Democrats on the Schneider–Raskin letter opposing annexation of the West Bank (September). On the other side, she calls Israel’s conduct “questionable actions” rather than a genocide, and in a 2024 position paper quoted by AIPAC she called herself “unwavering in my support for Israel’s right to defend itself.” AIPAC endorsed her in 2024 but not for 2026; its PAC gave her 2024 campaign $35,666, DMFI $2,000 and NORPAC $5,000, and she has declined to reject AIPAC money. That 2024 money, with no public break, is what holds her at 2/3. Counter-case: toward 3/4, since Block the Bombs is the strongest of the bills to limit weapons and no AIPAC, DMFI or NORPAC money has reached her 2026 campaign; toward a flat 3 if the same-day Massie No is weighed against it.
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