Salud Carbajal
D · U.S. House, CA-24 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
Voted Aye on the July 2026 Massie amendment “to not give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration funding for more offensive weapons,” saying “we cannot continue to provide Netanyahu a blank check” while calling himself “a steadfast supporter of Israel”; he cosponsored the Ceasefire Compliance Act (Mar 2026) and was an original cosponsor of UNRWA restoration (Mar 2025) and the Stop the Settlements Act (Oct 2026). A senior Armed Services Democrat, he called for a humanitarian pause in October 2023, joined 86 colleagues in a May 2024 letter arguing that “there is sufficient evidence that Israel’s restrictions on the delivery of US-backed humanitarian aid violate Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act,” and co-led with Ami Bera 94 Democrats opposing Israel’s total aid blockade in May 2025. He also signed letters opposing the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza (January 2024), urging sanctions on Smotrich and Ben-Gvir (October 2024), demanding answers on the detention of the student activist Mahmoud Khalil (March 2025) and urging Secretary Rubio to demand that Israel “immediately facilitate a massive surge of humanitarian aid” into Gaza, infant formula included (August 2025), and, with most House Democrats, the September 2025 letter opposing unilateral annexation of the West Bank. His votes have otherwise been mainstream pro-Israel: an original cosponsor of the October 2023 “Standing with Israel” resolution, he voted for the April 2024 package, H.Res.894, the Antisemitism Awareness Act, the Hamas-financing bill and the “river to the sea” condemnation, and against Greene’s 2025 missile-defense cut, though against both ICC-sanctions bills. He has also cosponsored the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (H.R.1229), which would deepen U.S.-Israel military cooperation and extend the stockpile of U.S. weapons kept in Israel for its use through 2029, since May 2025. In February 2024 he went with a J Street delegation of six House Democrats, which also met PLO secretary general Hussein al-Sheikh in Ramallah, to Khirbet Zanuta, which their joint statement calls “a Palestinian village in the West Bank where settlers destroyed homes and a school.” Back home he told the Santa Barbara Independent, “All their homes were destroyed. Not just by hand, but by tractors. The school and the homes.” In June 2026 Carbajal 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 flat 3. The Massie Aye — explained as refusing Netanyahu “funding for more offensive weapons” — and the Ceasefire Compliance Act are two steps toward withholding weapons, backed by UNRWA restoration, the Stop the Settlements Act, a 2024 letter arguing Israel was breaking the U.S. law that bars arms to governments blocking aid, and concern for Gaza’s civilians since October 2023. Against that sit his votes for the April 2024 package, H.Res.894, the Antisemitism Awareness Act and the “river to the sea” condemnation, his signatures on the January 2024 Smith–Manning letter, whose signers “thoroughly reject” South Africa’s “charge of genocide” against Israel, and on the April 2024 letter urging Speaker Johnson to bring the Senate’s national-security package, with its aid to Israel, to “an immediate vote,” his cosponsorship of the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act (H.R.1229) since May 2025, and no Block the Bombs cosponsorship. Counter-case: 3/4 on the Massie vote plus the Ceasefire Compliance Act; 2/3 if the frame-keeping votes are weighed more heavily.
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