Treg Taylor
Taylor, Alaska's attorney general, joined twenty-five other states in asking Congress to end all U.S. funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and urged Brown University to reject divesting from companies tied to Israel. Nothing from him on U.S. weapons was located.
Taylor served as Alaska's attorney general and is a Republican candidate for governor. His record here is made of multistate letters and court filings he signed in that job, and read together they point one way.
The clearest of them is about American money. On February 1, 2024 he was one of twenty-six state attorneys general who wrote to congressional leaders calling on them to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The ask is unconditional: "The United States must end financial contributions to UNRWA, both in the future and currently scheduled to be paid." And it reaches past that one agency to the aid pipeline itself, saying "no United States funds should go to humanitarian aid in Gaza until and unless the United States audits their staff" to check that no terrorists are employed. Alaska is named in the body among the twenty-six signing states, and the signature block carries "Treg Taylor" over "Attorney General of Alaska". This is the one item on his record that answers the question this site asks head on, and the answer it gives is about American money reaching Palestinians.
Six months later he was one of twenty-four attorneys general who wrote to Brown University's trustees urging them to reject a divestment proposal before a vote that autumn. The letter calls the proposal "antisemitic and unlawful" and spells out a threat: adopting it may require the signing states "to terminate any existing relationships with Brown", divest from university debt held by state pension plans, and stop doing business with it, because most states have laws barring public bodies from contracting with entities that discriminate against Israel or Israelis. News From The States listed the signatories, Alaska among them.
In between, in June 2024, he signed a letter asking the President to reverse the decision to defer removing certain Palestinians from the United States. That is an immigration measure rather than an aid programme, and it is carried here as what it is. He has also signed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting American victims of the Hamas attack and supporting the federal government against Harvard in a case about antisemitism on campus.
On what the United States sends in weapons, nothing from him was located, and that is the single gap in an otherwise settled record. On money to Palestinians, on divestment, and in the courts, he has signed his name repeatedly and in the same direction. On arms transfers to the government of Israel he has not been recorded saying anything at all.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- Nothing located from him, re-checked for the final pass on 2026-08-19. This is the one dimension of the question his record does not touch, and the card says so in its last sentence rather than letting the other signatures cover for it.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Position, 2024-02-01] **An inherited claim, confirmed on the second copy.** This record says he joined Republican attorneys general urging congressional leadership to end United States contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The copy it cites, https://myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/2024-02/unrwa_letter_final.pdf, returned 404 on 2026-08-17 and again on 2026-08-18. Two versions of the February 1, 2024 letter to the Speaker, the Majority Leader and both Minority Leaders are in circulation and they differ. The version at https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1-31_-_Letter_re_UNRWA_Funding_-_Final.pdf lists twenty-five states and does not name Alaska. The Oklahoma attorney general's copy lists twenty-six, names Alaska in the body and carries his name and title in the signature block. He signed it. The letter asks Congress to stop funding the agency, and says of more than a billion dollars sent to it: "That must stop." **This is now the card's lead**, on Graham's ruling of 2026-08-19 that the claim is kept and integrated. The Oklahoma copy was re-fetched on 2026-08-19 with a desktop-Chrome user agent: HTTP 200, 450,988 bytes. Dated 2024-02-01, outside the reaction window, so it is card-eligible.
- [Position, 2024-06-17] Signed a letter from eighteen states asking President Biden to reverse Deferred Enforced Departure for Palestinians: "we urge you to reverse the decision to defer their removal from the United States." Opened and his signature confirmed under "TREG TAYLOR, Alaska Attorney General". This is an immigration measure, not an aid programme, and it is described that way.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-08-26] The Brown University letter calls the divestment proposal "only the latest part of an antisemitic pressure campaign" and "antisemitic and unlawful". Joint wording, so it is not sharpened into a personal characterization.
- [Position, 2024-09-20] Signed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting American victims of the October 2023 attack, signature confirmed.
- [Position, 2024-03-28] This record's research round reports an eighteen-state letter to the index provider MSCI, said to describe the boycott campaign as having "fundamentally genocidal goals" aimed at "elimination of Israel as a Jewish state". The copy at https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/2024-03/msci-letter.pdf downloads but is a scan with no recoverable text, so we could not read the wording or the signature block. Nothing from it is quoted or claimed.
- [Position, 2024-06-26] A twenty-five-state letter to Senate leadership on the International Criminal Court's pursuit of Israeli officials is reported at https://www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/default/files/2024-06/2024-06-26-arkansas-icc-act-letter.pdf. That file is also a scan with no recoverable text, so the signature could not be confirmed and nothing is claimed from it.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2024-08-26] The Brown letter's mechanism is the point: it warns that divestment may require the signing states "to terminate any existing relationships with Brown" and to divest from university debt held by state pension plans, because most states bar public bodies from contracting with entities that discriminate against Israel or Israelis. Alaska's own such order is cited in the letter's own footnote.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-06-22] Signed a multistate brief in the Harvard case arguing universities must protect Jewish and Israeli students. Signature confirmed; the Iowa attorney general's copy is identical.
- [Position, 2024-04-17] Testified to the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee on House Bill 386 and Senate Bill 255, which would penalise blocking streets, bridges, highways and runways, as Must Read Alaska reported. The bill is written generally; the outlet frames it against road blockades by demonstrators. His own words at that hearing were not recovered.
- [Earlier record, 2021-07-21] After The Guardian reported that an assistant attorney general in his department had posted antisemitic and racist material under a pseudonym, his office opened an internal review. Context, not a position on what the United States sends.
Race and status context
- Republican candidate in the Alaska governor's race, per Ballotpedia's race page and his Ballotpedia profile.
- [Position, read 2026-07-11] Campaign site: state issues.
- He has held no federal office, so there are no recorded votes on this card.
- Florida's attorney general signed the Brown letter, the Deferred Enforced Departure letter and the February 2024 letter on the United Nations agency. She has her own card in this batch.
Also in this race: David Bronson (Republican), Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (Democrat), Bernadette Wilson (Republican) · All Alaska candidates.
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