Troy Jackson
D · U.S. Senate, Maine · Tier 4
Tier 4, “Critical / conditions aid”
“End the genocide in Gaza. No U.S. tax dollars to Israel’s military.” In his own voice: “Anybody with eyes and a heart knows the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza… I’ll never vote in favor of US taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel.” In a News Center Maine interview in late September 2026 Jackson said of Netanyahu, “I don’t want the United States sending money, a blank check, to him anymore.” At the October 6, 2026 debate he said, “I’m endorsed by J Street, and I think we should not be giving a blank check like this,” and when Collins said he had called for cutting off all aid, answered, “What I said was that I didn’t want any more offensive weapons going to murder people in Palestine.” In the same exchange he called Netanyahu “a war criminal,” adding that “Senator Collins likes him” (JTA). Wrote and introduced his own Dirigo Democracy Pledge (July 16, 2026), pledging “I will not accept money from corporate PACs, AIPAC, or lobbyists for the fossil-fuel and pharmaceutical industries,” and called on the other candidates for the nomination to sign it. Nominated 566–5 at the July 25, 2026 Maine Democratic special convention to replace Graham Platner. FEC Schedule A shows no AIPAC, DMFI or CUFI contributions. Apologizing on September 30, 2026 for “a generalization about Jewish Mainers’ views” in a News Center Maine interview, Jackson restated: “I believe what’s happening in Gaza is genocide, and I also understand that word carries particular weight for many Jewish families given the Holocaust — the genocide of six million Jews.”
A 4. He names the genocide in his own voice (“I believe what’s happening in Gaza is genocide,” September 2026) and has pledged to withhold military aid: in July he wrote, “I’ll never vote in favor of US taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel,” and his site still says “No U.S. tax dollars to Israel’s military.” But at the October 6 debate, after saying “I’m endorsed by J Street, and I think we should not be giving a blank check like this,” he answered Sen. Susan Collins’s charge that he had called for cutting it all off: “What I said was that I didn’t want any more offensive weapons going to murder people in Palestine.” At a September town hall he said Gaza and Israel both “deserve to be there, be protected” (New York Magazine, via Drop Site News). The record is campaign-era: as a state lawmaker the issue was one he “never had to deal with.” No BDS, anti-Zionist or right-of-return position is on record. Counter-case: 4/5, on the July pledge still on his site.
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