But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Barry Moore
Moore urged the administration to reverse its halt on precision-guided weapons for the government of Israel, saying the decision "makes America look weak on the world's stage and could hinder Israel's ability to respond to future attacks". No condition on that aid appears in his record (research).
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Deep Dive
Moore represents an Alabama district in the U.S. House and is the Republican nominee for the state's open Senate seat.
In May 2024, with three colleagues, he wrote to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State to ask them to reconsider halting the shipment of precision-guided weapons to the government of Israel. Six weeks earlier he had signed a letter condemning the administration's abstention on a United Nations ceasefire vote, saying: "The United States should continue to support Israel rather than undermining them as they fight for their very existence." His recorded votes run the same way, and in January 2025 he voted to sanction the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrants for Israeli officials.
He gives a religious reason for it. His profile on the candidate site Local Candidates carries his answer in full: "When asked my stance on Israel, my short answer is, I'm pro-Israel. I believe wholeheartedly in God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis", and he goes on that a nation must bless Israel to be blessed itself, and that he wants the United States blessed.
Nothing in the record attaches a condition to any of the weapons or the money. He has never said that a shipment should be paused, slowed, tied to conduct or reviewed, and nothing located here asks anything of the government of Israel in return. On the other question, what the United States sends Palestinians, he has said nothing about the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees or about humanitarian funding for Gaza. A September 2025 statement of his opposing other countries' recognition of a Palestinian state is reported to sit on his own Facebook page, which does not answer us. We could not verify this claim against any source we could open, so it is on his research page and not on this card.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
• Voted Yea on H.R. 23, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrants against Israeli officials (Roll Call 7, 119th Congress, January 9, 2025; bill passed 243-140).
• Co-sponsored and voted Yea on H.R. 6126, the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, providing $14.3 billion in emergency U.S. military assistance to Israel (November 2023).
• Voted in favor of H.Res. 311, a resolution encouraging the strengthening of the Abraham Accords and urging further normalization of relations with Israel (April 2023).
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 6 of 6 tracked votes.)
The money
$13K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
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, 2024-05-16] With Reps. Gary Palmer, Andy Biggs and Warren Davidson he wrote to Secretary Austin and Secretary Blinken urging them to reconsider halting the shipment of precision-guided weapons. His own words on his own House release: "I urge President Biden, Secretary Austin and Secretary Blinken to reconsider this decision that makes America look weak on the world's stage and could hinder Israel's ability to respond to future attacks." Opened and confirmed word for word.
- [Position, 2024 to 2026] The six recorded votes shown on this card, each cross-checked against the official House Clerk roll call, for example the 2026 roll call. Not re-listed in prose.
- [Position, 2025-01-09] Voted Yea on H.R. 23, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, sanctioning the International Criminal Court over its warrants for Israeli officials; passed 243 to 140 (Clerk roll call).
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] His profile on the candidate site Local Candidates carries a stated Israel position at https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/barry-moore/positions/7319bdf5-28d4-46a1-b510-073806b91036, including: "When asked my stance on Israel, my short answer is, I'm pro-Israel. I believe wholeheartedly in God's covenant with Abraham in Genesis", continuing that to be blessed as a nation one must bless Israel and that he wants the United States to be blessed. The page answers a desktop browser and the text is recoverable from it; it is an aggregator's profile rather than his own publication, and it carries no date for the answer, so no quote entry is created and it is described rather than linked in the card text.
- [Reaction window, 2023-11-03] Statement on his vote for the $14.3 billion Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which he also cosponsored, in two spans his release separates with its attribution: "Israel, our strategic ally for nearly 75 years, is working to defend itself against brazen terrorists who want to extinguish them," and "At least 1,400 Israelis and 30 Americans have lost their lives. It is imperative we support and supply Israel with resources and demonstrate strength on the world's stage in a time of grave danger. Instead of taking more money out of Americans' bank accounts, this legislation cuts $14 billion in Democrat funding to the weaponized IRS to protect Israel." Not on the card summary.
- [Earlier record, 2023-04-26] Statement on his vote for H.Res. 311 on the Abraham Accords. Predates the war; kept as history.
- [Earlier record, 2023-07-20] "Rep. Barry Moore voices support for Israel", in which he says he will "always be proud to stand with Israel" and calls antisemitic statements in Congress abhorrent and racist. Predates the war.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or on humanitarian funding for Gaza.
- [Position, 2025-09-22, carrier unreadable] A statement of his opposing the recognition of Palestine as a state by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and others, calling the move deeply troubling and saying it legitimises the use of terror as a political tool. It sits on his official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RepBarryMoore/photos/my-statement-on-the-foreign-recognition-of-palestine-as-a-state-%EF%B8%8F/1368162461982838/, and Facebook does not answer our requests, so we have not read it. Its substance is recorded here and summarised on the card; nothing from it is quoted.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-04-01] Signed a letter to President Biden led by Rep. Andy Biggs condemning the abstention on a United Nations ceasefire resolution. His own words: "Israel has been our trusted ally for more than 75 years, but President Biden is damaging our relationship by allowing his radical Democrat voter base to sway his foreign policy", and "The United States should continue to support Israel rather than undermining them as they fight for their very existence." Confirmed word for word.
- [Position, 2025-06-21] 1819 News interview on the conflict between Israel and Iran.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-26] "Rep. Barry Moore stands with Israel". Not on the card summary.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- American Israel Public Affairs Committee lifetime support of $12,900 is a badge on this card and is not restated in prose.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-06-26] Introduced the Define to Defeat Act of 2025, applying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism to civil rights enforcement: "My bill ensures that federal agencies adopt a clear and consistent definition of antisemitism so we can identify it, confront it, and prosecute criminal behavior when necessary." Yellowhammer News covered it.
Race and status context
- Sitting U.S. Representative for an Alabama district, nominated for the U.S. Senate. Identity resolved against the congress-legislators dataset.
- The seat's retiring incumbent has his own card on this site, as a candidate for governor.
- On 2026-08-18 it answered a desktop-Chrome user agent with the position text intact.
Also in this race
- ?Mixed Everett Wess (Democrat)
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