Scott Wiener
D · U.S. House, CA-11 · Tier 3
Tier 3, “Pro-Israel, critical”
Reversed in Jan 2026 to call Gaza 'a genocide' (and stepped down as CA Jewish Caucus co-chair over it); says he's broadly in favor of withholding offensive arms. He affirms the US-Israel alliance and said in July 2026 that he would vote for the Block the Bombs Act, after twice declining to commit in Oct 2025 and calling the Act “aligned with where I am” in January 2026. That July The Intercept reported that he backed U.S. support for Iron Dome and David’s Sling; by September, Jewish Currents reported, he said Israel should still be able to buy Iron Dome from the United States but U.S. taxpayers should not foot the bill, and at the Oct 5, 2026 debate he said, “I do not support funding for the Israeli military…I just won’t support that.” He went on a February 2024 legislative delegation to Israel as Jewish Caucus co-chair; defending the trip to Mission Local in October 2026, he said “Before, during, and after this trip, I opposed Israel’s destruction of Gaza and dismemberment of the West Bank,” noting that it came “four months after the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.” He also opposes BDS, as The Intercept reports; was a principal coauthor of AB 715, California’s 2025 bill on antisemitism in K-12 schools; affirms Israel as a Jewish state; and backs two states. At the Oct 1, 2026 debate, asked whether his position on aid to Israel would change if Netanyahu’s coalition lost the coming Israeli election — restarting aid under a new government was something he had previously said should be considered, according to Mission Local — Wiener said no: “This government, and it’s not just Netanyahu, is an absolute abomination, in my view, in terms of what it has inflicted on Gaza, in terms of Israel empowering settler violence and land grabs in the West Bank.” At the final debate, on October 13, 2026, he said the U.S. “must protect civilians from being killed and not facilitate civilians being killed, which is why I will not support military funding to Israel.”
A 3, and one of the closest calls on the roster. He calls Gaza a genocide in his own voice (and resigned as CA Jewish Caucus co-chair over it) and says he won’t back US funding for the destruction of Palestinian communities — but he holds no office in which he could condition arms, so his position is a stated intention rather than a record: having twice declined to say where he stood on Block the Bombs in Oct 2025, he called it “aligned with where I am” in January 2026, asking only that it be time-limited, and said in July 2026 that he would vote for it. At the October 5 debate he said, “I do not support funding for the Israeli military,” while, in ABC7’s account, still supporting Israel’s purchase of defensive systems; at the October 13 debate he grounded the same line in protecting civilians: the U.S. must “not facilitate civilians being killed, which is why I will not support military funding to Israel.” And he keeps the liberal-Zionist frame: he opposes BDS and affirms Israel as a Jewish state, backing two states. On today’s words he matches the liberal-Zionist critics at 3/4, carve-out included; what holds him a step short is how late and in what stages he got there: he twice declined to back Block the Bombs in October 2025, called Gaza a genocide only in January 2026, and backed U.S. support for Iron Dome and David’s Sling as late as July 2026.
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