Saritha Komatireddy
R · Attorney General, New York · not rated
Former EDNY federal prosecutor and DEA chief of staff; won the GOP AG nomination and faces AG Letitia James in November. Her campaign centers on crime and public safety and on accusing James of politicizing the office; her Israel-adjacent remarks, in a December 2025 Washington Free Beacon interview, are prosecutorial — there is “no legal authority to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu,” and “no one would be targeted because they are a friend of Israel or they do business with Israel.” At the October 8, 2026 NY1 debate she accused James of failing to protect Jewish students on campuses — “She just stands there. She doesn’t do anything” — and urged civil-rights enforcement against colleges under Title VI; VIN News found no discussion of Israel policy from either candidate. In a JNS interview published October 23, 2026, she pledged: “On day one, I will declare a state of emergency on antisemitism in New York City.” She called Mayor Mamdani’s comments “concerning” (he “has dabbled in international politics and has called for unrest”), and said she would use the attorney general’s authority to set “safe buffer zones” around synagogues and enforce Title VI for Jewish students; she again stated no position on Israel policy.
Unrated. As a state Attorney General candidate she has no nexus to Israel policy — no position on military aid, Iron Dome, Gaza conduct, BDS, or two states. Her three Israel-adjacent remarks, all from a December 2025 Washington Free Beacon interview, are prosecutorial rather than policy: that there is no legal authority to arrest Netanyahu (a jurisdictional claim), that “no one would be targeted because they are a friend of Israel or they do business with Israel,” and that she’d use AG tools against campus antisemitism (a civil-rights posture). That isn’t a documented Israel-policy position. Unrated until a position on Israel policy is stated.
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