But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Tommy Tuberville
Tuberville has voted against every attempt to block U.S. weapons sales to the government of Israel, called the 2024 pause on arms shipments to it "the worst kind of betrayal", and pressed for a permanent end to U.S. funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
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Deep Dive
Tuberville is Alabama's junior senator and the Republican nominee for governor. He has been unusually explicit about both halves of the money question, which is why his votes are characterised here rather than left to speak for themselves.
On weapons: when the administration paused a shipment of bombs in May 2024, he said that "Saying you support the Jewish people then withholding critical arms and munitions only emboldens the Hamas Terrorists and prolongs the fighting" and called on the president to release the weapons. In August 2024 he wrote to the Secretary of State about equipment held back from Israeli military and police buyers, calling the hold "immoral and needlessly weakens one of our strongest allies in a time of critical need". Every Senate vote he has cast on blocking a specific arms sale to the government of Israel has been a vote against blocking it.
On aid to Palestinians: he joined senators pressing leadership, at the end of January 2024, for an "immediate and permanent prohibition" on U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, the main channel for American money to Palestinian civilians.
He has kept at it while running for governor. In July 2026 he defended the provision of the annual defence bill that would write the United States-Israel defence technology partnership into law, telling reporters it "just codifies existing partnerships that the U.S. and Israel have had in place for years". He is nonetheless running for an office with no vote on any of it, and his campaign site does not take the subject up.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 9 of 9 tracked votes
• Voted Nay on all three Nov. 20, 2024 motions to discharge Sanders-led joint resolutions disapproving proposed foreign military sales/exports to the Government of Israel (S.J.Res. 111, S.J.Res. 113, S.J.Res. 115), each Nay a vote against blocking arms transfers to Israel. All three motions were rejected.
• Voted Nay on both Apr. 3, 2025 motions to discharge joint resolutions disapproving proposed foreign military sales to the Government of Israel (S.J.Res. 33 and S.J.Res. 26), votes against blocking the sales. Both motions were rejected.
• Voted Nay on both Jul. 30, 2025 motions to discharge joint resolutions disapproving proposed arms exports/sales to Israel (S.J.Res. 41 and S.J.Res. 34), votes against blocking the transfers. Both motions were rejected.
• Voted Nay on both Apr. 15, 2026 motions to discharge joint resolutions disapproving proposed foreign military sales to the Government of Israel (S.J.Res. 32 and S.J.Res. 138), votes against blocking the sales. Both motions were rejected.
• Pressed for a permanent prohibition on U.S. contributions to UNRWA, joining a late-January 2024 letter (released Feb. 1, 2024) to Senate leaders urging that any supplemental spending package include an 'immediate and permanent prohibition' on U.S. funding for the agency.
How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
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Voted to send weapons or funding in more than half of their recorded tracked votes. (Supported sending weapons or funding in 9 of 9 tracked votes.)
The money
$5K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
Donald J. Trump
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, 2024-05-08] Statement on the confirmed pause in bomb shipments, verified verbatim: "Israel is one of our closest and most important allies. We should be consistent in supporting our friend as they fight a war for their very survival. What we are seeing from the Biden Administration is the worst kind of betrayal. Saying you support the Jewish people then withholding critical arms and munitions only emboldens the Hamas Terrorists and prolongs the fighting. President Biden needs to stop appeasing the America-hating fringe of the Democrat party for votes in November and release the weapons to Israel."
- [Position, 2024-08-16] Letter to the Secretary of State on withheld Foreign Military Sales equipment: "Withholding vital weapons and munitions from both the Israeli military and law enforcement is immoral and needlessly weakens one of our strongest allies in a time of critical need."
- [Position, 2026-07-23] On a call with reporters he defended Section 219 of the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, against critics who say it ties the two militaries together in a new way: "what I can tell you is that it just codifies existing partnerships that the U.S. and Israel have had in place for years. 219, what it does is it sets up a mechanism to share research and development and best practices for innovative defense technology." And: "We want to continue to have the best innovative and fighting force in the world, and what better way to do that than to work with Israel and other countries." Opened and confirmed word for word. This is the most recent thing he has said on the subject, and it comes while he is running for governor.
- [Position, 2024 to 2026] Nine recorded votes against motions to discharge resolutions that would have blocked particular arms sales or export licences to the government of Israel, each cross-checked against the official roll call, for example S.J.Res. 111 and S.J.Res. 32. The card renders the votes; the prose does not re-list them.
- [Position, 2024-04-23] Recorded Not Voting on the national security supplemental (H.R. 815), one of three Republicans absent, per the committed roll call and a contemporaneous CNN tally.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-19] Cosponsorship of the Emergency Resupply for IRON DOME Act of 2023, with a statement on redirecting assistance from Gaza to the Iron Dome (his release). The release quotes him in two spans: "The Hamas and Iran-orchestrated terror attacks we have seen in Israel are pure evil," and "Israel must wipe Hamas from the face of the earth and ensure that this never happens again. As Israel continues to fight and kill terrorists, the United States has a strategic interest in supporting Israel and supplying Israel. We should immediately stop all foreign assistance to Hamas-controlled Gaza and redirect those funds to the Iron Dome, which has saved countless Israeli civilian lives." Not on the card summary.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-31] Floor remarks, "Support Israel and Supply Israel", as excerpted in his Senate release: "We need to ensure that they have what they need to wipe Hamas off from existence. I support sending Israel more weapons if they need them." Not on the card summary.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-06] Alabama Daily News reported his call to separate aid for the government of Israel from aid for Ukraine. Not on the card summary.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- [Position, 2024-02-01] Release on a letter to Senate leaders, dated January 31, 2024, urging that any supplemental include an "immediate and permanent prohibition" on U.S. funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Direction named: against that channel of U.S. money to Palestinians. Multi-signatory, so only the joint wording is used.
Characterization of the conflict
- The characterizations in this record are in the reaction-window releases above, and are not on the card summary.
- [Position, 2026-02-05, unread] He is reported to have told reporters he saw "some good reason" for restricting journalists' access to Gaza, and that the conflict is "pretty much over with". The only carrier offered is a YouTube short at https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2vWPWWjHZU4, which returns no readable text, so nothing from it is used. This would be a substantial item if a transcript surfaced.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Endorsed by Donald J. Trump (record field).
- Republican Jewish Coalition lifetime support of $5,000 is a badge and is not restated.
- An advocacy site, https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/tommy_tuberville, catalogues his record and donations. It opens, but it is a campaigning page rather than a document, so nothing is taken from it.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-09] Remarks at a Senate committee roundtable on campus antisemitism. Not on the card summary.
- [Reaction window, 2023-12-13] Joined a resolution condemning a protest slogan as antisemitic. Not on the card summary.
- [Position, 2024-05-06] In an interview with 1819 News he warned that congressional efforts to restrict antisemitic campus speech risk a slippery slope on the First Amendment. Context on his approach to antisemitism legislation, not an answer on what the United States sends.
- [Position, 2025-06-02] Fox Business interview after an antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado. A video page; the text recovered is a summary rather than a transcript, so nothing is quoted from it.
Race and status context
- Republican nominee for governor per Ballotpedia; campaign site read 2026-08-02, no foreign-policy content.
- The Democratic nominee in the same race has his own card on this site.
Also in this race
- –No Position Found Doug Jones (Democrat)
- –No Position Found Ronald Burnette Jr. (Independent)
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