Yvette Clarke
D · U.S. House, NY-9 · Tier 2
Tier 2, “Mainstream pro-Israel”
NY-9 incumbent; votes for military aid to Israel but breaks from the pro-Israel line on other votes more often than most of her caucus. Voted FOR H.R.8034 (Spring 2024) — billions in weapons to Israel and a ban on all US funding to UNRWA. Does not co-sponsor Block the Bombs; her own constituents have publicly petitioned her to do so. Called the Gaza famine a “moral catastrophe” (July 2025) and has repeatedly called for a ceasefire tied to the release of the hostages (March and May 2024, October 2025). Her House statements on Gaza do not use the word “genocide.” In March 2024 she backed “an immediate, sustained ceasefire directly tied to the release of hostages,” framed around two states, and said “we cannot tolerate the wanton loss of Palestinian lives… as a cost of conducting this war against Hamas.” In 2025 she 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); in January 2026 she signed the Welch–Khanna letter urging a stronger U.S. response to Israel’s moves toward annexation, including the E-1 settlement. On Sep 24, 2026 Clarke signed a 72-member House letter urging Netanyahu to contain settler violence in the West Bank, prosecute attacks on Palestinians and “halt further settlement approvals,” written “out of concern for Israel’s long-term security as well as for the safety of Palestinians.” She 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 March 2025.
A 2: real daylight, but no step to limit weapons. She cosponsored the October 2023 “Standing with Israel” resolution, voted for the April 2024 aid package, which also barred U.S. funding to UNRWA, voted No on the July 2026 Massie amendment to strip $3.3 billion in military financing, cosponsors the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act and has not cosponsored Block the Bombs. AIPAC endorsed her this cycle, and $23,268 reached her campaign through AIPAC’s PAC in the 2024 cycle. The daylight that keeps her off 1/2: Nays on the IHRA bill, the “river to the sea” resolution, the Hamas-financing bill, the bill forcing the paused bomb shipment, both ICC-sanctions bills and the 2026 anti-boycott bill; Present on H.Res.894; and a July 2025 statement calling the famine “a moral catastrophe that America cannot and must not abide by” and “the well-being of the Palestinian people Israel’s responsibility.” She does not use “genocide.” Counter-case: 2/3, since that statement is a public break with Israel’s conduct in her own voice, and her frame votes break from the pro-Israel line more often than most of her caucus.
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