Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Republican · Governor, Arkansas

Sanders has put Arkansas money into the government of Israel's debt: her administration invested up to $50 million of state retirement funds in Israeli bonds, on top of about $55 million already held, and she signed an economic cooperation agreement in Jerusalem (research).

Sanders is Arkansas's governor, seeking a second term. Almost everything a governor can do on this question, she has done, and all of it points one way.

In August 2025 she made her first official trip to Israel, met the prime minister and two cabinet ministers, and signed an economic cooperation agreement between the Arkansas Economic Development Commission and Israel's National Technological Innovation Authority covering aerospace and defence, agricultural technology, energy and manufacturing. Her office's readout of the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu sets out the rest: the decision to invest up to $50 million of state retirement funds in Israeli bonds on top of the roughly $55 million the state treasury already held; a state requirement that Arkansas government call the West Bank Judea and Samaria; and her interest in expanding the Arkansas plant that makes components for Israel's Iron Dome. Buying those bonds is state money lent to the government of Israel. The label the state now uses for occupied territory is a political position taken in her name, and Arkansas was the first state to impose it.

She has been equally plain in her own words. The executive order she signed lowering flags to mark the anniversary of the attack calls the war one "between good and evil" and states flatly: "Israel is right, and the terrorists are wrong."

Inside Arkansas she has signed the international working definition of antisemitism into state law twice, once as the state's official definition and once for schools and colleges, and her administration has funded security at synagogues. On the federal questions this site asks, what the United States sends in weapons and money, she has taken no position we could find, which is unsurprising in an office that has no vote on either.

Research

State money and state action toward the government of Israel

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context)

Race and status context

Also in this race: Fredrick Love (Democrat), Colt Shelby (Libertarian) · All Arkansas candidates.

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