Which sources this roster relies on, in what order, and — where it cites a source low in that order — what was searched first and came back empty.
Not every outlet is equally trustworthy on this subject, and pretending otherwise is itself a bias. This roster ranks sources deliberately and prefers the highest rung that actually covers a fact.
These 21 citations stay where they are, and this is the record of why. In each case the outlets listed were searched and none of them covers the fact. Most are down-ballot races — a Pennsylvania swing-district House primary or a New York state senate seat — that Palestinian, Arab and international outlets have simply never written about.
That DMFI PAC endorsed Cognetti in PA-8 as part of its 2026 Majority Project — and, in the surrounding prose, her explicitly pro-Israel platform.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss (site search for 'Cognetti' — 'Nothing Found'), Al Jazeera (site search — no results), Middle East Eye (search endpoint 404s; no Cognetti coverage surfaced in web search either), Drop Site News, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Common Dreams, Zeteo, the Guardian. Also checked her own campaign site: paigeforpa.com and paigeforpa.com/priorities/.
That the Republican Jewish Coalition endorsed Miller-Meeks in its March 2026 slate of 16 House GOP incumbents.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss (site search for 'Miller-Meeks' — 'Nothing Found'), Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Common Dreams, the Guardian. The only outlets carrying the endorsement are RJC itself, San Diego Jewish World and JNS.
Narrowly: that AIPAC backing / Israel is a central issue in Collins's race against Graham Platner. The money itself (~$647K career, ~20% of her 2025 funds) is already carried by the s/u Zeteo piece, which I re-read and which does say 'AIPAC, accounted for nearly 20% of the money that Republican Senator Susan Collins raised last year' and that the AIPAC total 'far outpaces what she raised from small donors' — but Zeteo does NOT carry the 'central issue in the race' framing. That framing is what the JTA slot is doing.
Searched and not found in: Palestine Chronicle (its 'Falling from Grace: Who Are the US Candidates Refusing AIPAC Money?' piece surfaced in search and appears to carry a Collins AIPAC figure, but the site is behind a Deflect/JS bot wall — WebFetch returned 429 twice and curl with a browser UA plus retry-backoff returned only the 'Verifying if your connection is secure' interstitial, so I could not open it and will not cite it); WAFA; The New Arab; Al Jazeera (opened Ali Harb's 20 May 2026 shell-PAC piece — no mention of Collins, Maine or Platner); Middle East Eye; Drop Site (opened the 28 Apr 2026 Nathan Bernard piece on the pro-Collins Pine Tree Results super PAC); Mondoweiss (opened Michael Arria's 11 Jun 2026 Shift column on Platner — it does not detail AIPAC spending in the race); Common Dreams (opened two Platner pieces); The Intercept; Zeteo (already the s/u); Electronic Intifada; Jewish Currents.
The direct quote 'I vehemently support Israel's right to defend itself,' plus the associated positions — backing the military aid Israel needs, reauthorising the US-Israel MOU, touting the Scranton munitions plant, and the humanitarian-aid and two-state caveats. The Jewish Insider interview is the origin of that quote; it does not appear to exist anywhere else.
Searched and not found in: Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, The New Arab, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, The Intercept, Zeteo, Common Dreams, Jewish Currents — a PA-8 swing-district House race is simply not covered by any of them on Israel policy. Also checked her own campaign site (opened paigeforpa.com and paigeforpa.com/priorities/ — neither mentions Israel, Gaza, military aid, antisemitism or the MOU anywhere), her J Street PAC candidate page (opened — endorsement confirmed, zero policy content), Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Spotlight PA, WVIA, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Times Leader (all cover data centers, PAC money and stock-trading reform; none touch Israel). CNN's 20 May 2026 profile returns HTTP 451 to this agent so I could not read it — worth a human check, but its published framing is about her bucking her party domestically, not Israel.
That Brisport uses 'from the river to the sea' in his own voice and calls Israel's conduct a genocide — the pair of markers the record leans on for Tier 6, alongside the BDS quote at s2 and the nysenate.gov press release at s/u.
Searched and not found in: Wayback (a snapshot exists at web/20251229184450 but it captured only the X JavaScript shell — no tweet text; web.archive.org is also blocked to WebFetch, so I pulled it with curl and confirmed it is empty); Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, The New Arab, Drop Site, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Zeteo, Common Dreams; plus nysenate.gov, City & State NY, PoliticsNY, Bushwick Daily and amNY for local coverage. Nothing carries the quote. The only sites that reproduce it are X itself and Canary Mission, which is a doxxing site and must never be cited.
That Cooper is a DMFI-endorsed mainstream pro-Israel Democrat who rejects withholding aid and broke with his state party's arms-embargo/genocide resolution, while still calling for humanitarian aid into Gaza and backing two states.
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera (English, incl. its 2025-2026 US-Congress arms-vote coverage), Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Mondoweiss, +972, Electronic Intifada, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Zeteo, Common Dreams, Democracy Now, The Guardian, CNN, WFAE (Charlotte NPR), Religion News Service, Roll Call, NBC News
Her Jan 2026 statements specifically: 'unabashed supporter' of the US-Israel relationship, opposition to ANY conditioning of US aid, and the intent to lead a pro-Israel bloc against 'anti-Israel voices in the Democratic Party.'
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, Mondoweiss, +972, Electronic Intifada, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Drop Site News, Common Dreams, Zeteo, the Guardian; then mainstream: NBC News (launch story, 403s to fetch but its summary carries no Israel-policy detail), AP/Semafor, Virginia Mercury and WHRO (read in full), 13NewsNow, News From The States; then her own campaign site (elaineforcongress.com, read directly).
That Cooke said in her own voice the US should halt military aid to Israel ('I don't think taxpayer dollars should be going to fund the killing of children'), while affirming Israel's right to defend itself, rejecting AIPAC backing, and defending her J Street endorsement.
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, Democracy Now, Common Dreams, The Intercept, Zeteo, Wisconsin Examiner, Wisconsin Public Radio, plus open web
That Blakeman signed 'friendship agreements' with West Bank settlement councils using the term 'Judea and Samaria' (the Shomron Regional Council), and is under contract to buy an apartment in Beit Shemesh.
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, Drop Site, Democracy Now, The Intercept, Zeteo, plus Newsday/Long Island local press
That Salazar supports BDS by name, and has done so since her 2018 state senate campaign.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Democracy Now, Common Dreams, Drop Site, The Intercept, Jacobin
That Bynum posted "we stand firmly with Israel and the Jewish community worldwide" on the October 7 anniversary (Oct 7, 2024, from her campaign account).
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, Drop Site News, The Intercept, Zeteo, Common Dreams, The Guardian, OPB, Oregon Capital Chronicle, KOIN, Sludge, bynum.house.gov, janellebynum.com. Wayback Machine is unreachable from this environment (web.archive.org is blocked at the tool level), so I could not check archived snapshots.
The narrow claim is the hedge itself: that on 3 Oct 2025 Johnson, in his own voice, called it a genocide by Israel while assigning responsibility for it to Hamas — the counterweight to his unhedged July 2025 'What is happening in Gaza is genocide'.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss (including Michael Arria's 15 Jan 2026 'The Shift: The Democrats' emerging litmus test on the Gaza genocide' — fetched and read; Johnson is not mentioned anywhere in it), Al Jazeera, Drop Site News, Common Dreams, Zeteo, The Intercept, +972, Electronic Intifada, Guardian. No outlet at any tier reported this specific tweet. The only reaction I found is the Simon Wiesenthal Center's condemnation page, which is a Zionist advocacy org (tier 5) and I could not confirm it refers to this statement rather than another.
That she endorsed BDS by name in her own voice, and called Israel a state 'dedicated to apartheid'.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss site search (?s=Souffrant Forrest — no results), Electronic Intifada site search (no results), Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Jewish Currents, Guardian Content API (3 hits total — the Sept 2025 ICE-building arrest, an associated live blog, and the July 2025 'Can Democratic socialists get Zohran Mamdani across the finish line?' — none touches BDS). A 2021 tweet by a Brooklyn state assemblymember is simply below the coverage floor of every outlet above tier 4; the only outlets that ever wrote about her Palestine posts are JNS, Jewish Journal and the Washington Examiner, all tier 5.
That the RJC endorsed Valadao in its March 2026 House incumbent slate and that he stood with Israel after Oct 7 — the tier-1 pro-Israel marker.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss site search (?s=Valadao — no results), Electronic Intifada site search (no results), Al Jazeera (read its 20 May 2026 'How AIPAC channels millions through shell PACs ahead of US midterms' — Valadao is not named), Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Guardian Content API (9 Valadao articles since Oct 2025; I pulled the full text of the closest one, Andrew Gumbel's 31 May 2026 CA-22 piece), Barn Raiser (fetched its 12 Jun 2026 CA-22 piece).
That the RJC endorsed Moody in its April 2026 Senate slate, and that she authored the RECLAIM Act to claw back federal funds from universities over Jewish students' civil rights.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss site search (?s=Moody — no results), Electronic Intifada site search (no results), Al Jazeera (searched Moody and the Florida Senate special; its 20 May 2026 AIPAC shell-PAC piece and its 1 Aug 2026 midterms piece do not mention her), Middle East Monitor, Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Guardian Content API (33 hits for the exact name, every one incidental — Vindman profile, offshore-drilling story, the 2025 Florida AG contempt ruling, live blogs; none touches her Israel record).
That her only Israel-adjacent remarks are prosecutorial — 'no legal authority to arrest Netanyahu' and that no one would be targeted for being a friend of Israel.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss site search (?s=Komatireddy — no results), Electronic Intifada site search (no results), Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site News, Guardian Content API (exactly one hit for the name, a 2015 Apple/FBI encryption case in a different context). The July 2026 wave of Netanyahu-arrest coverage — Washington Post, NPR, CNBC, NY1, Time — is entirely about Mamdani and does not quote her. Local and trade coverage of the AG race (NY1, Spectrum, Law.com, LI Herald, Daily Gazette) is about crime and Letitia James and carries no Israel material.
That McBath is AIPAC- and DMFI-backed (the money-cap trigger for her tier-2 floor).
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Common Dreams, Zeteo, Democracy Now — none of them have ever written about McBath; the Intercept's extensive 2022 AIPAC/DMFI primary coverage covers Levin, Newman, Ramirez and Edwards but not the McBath–Bourdeaux race. Also tried ProPublica Itemizer (its FEC data stops at 2018) and OpenSecrets (403)
That the RJC endorsed Van Orden in 2026, as one leg of the AIPAC/RJC/Trump-endorsed, firmly pro-Israel characterization.
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, +972, Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Common Dreams, Zeteo, Democracy Now — none have written about Van Orden. The March 12, 2026 RJC House slate was picked up only by JNS and San Diego Jewish World (both tier 5) plus Ballotpedia. Roll Call covered the RJC's Senate slate but not the House one. Also tried Wisconsin local press (WisPolitics, Spectrum News 1, NOTUS) and congress.gov / clerk.house.gov (both 403 to a fetcher)
That Gounardes welcomed the October 2025 ceasefire/hostage deal and frames his posture around safety and freedom for both peoples.
Searched and not found in: Wayback Machine (availability API for both the x.com and twitter.com forms of the status URL — no snapshot exists; web.archive.org is otherwise unfetchable from this environment); Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye (no coverage of a New York state senator's ceasefire statement); Mondoweiss and Drop Site (no Gounardes coverage); general web search for the statement returned only his own Facebook cross-post, which is equally login-walled and no higher in the hierarchy.
That DMFI PAC endorsed von Wilpert in the CA-48 race — the cap-relevant fact under the project's money rule.
Searched and not found in: Mondoweiss (site search returns nothing for any term via this fetcher, so treated as inconclusive), Electronic Intifada (403), Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Drop Site News (403), Common Dreams, The Intercept, Times of San Diego, KPBS, Voice of San Diego, JVP San Diego, plus general web search on "DMFI PAC endorses von Wilpert".
Hunt's own pro-Israel framing delivered at an AIPAC event in May 2022 — "Israel is the only Middle East country the U.S. can fully trust" — and his status as an early AIPAC-PAC endorsee.
Searched and not found in: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, Drop Site News, Electronic Intifada (site-scoped search for "Wesley Hunt" + Israel/AIPAC returned zero); The Intercept, Common Dreams, Jacobin, The Guardian (searched for AIPAC's 2022 first endorsement slate + Hunt — zero).