Adelita S. Grijalva

Democrat · U.S. House, Arizona District 7

Grijalva cosponsored the Block the Bombs Act in November 2025, which would withhold offensive weapons from the government of Israel. In July 2026 she was one of 27 members who said they would not support another $3.3 billion for that government’s military operations in Gaza and Lebanon.

Adelita Grijalva has represented Arizona’s 7th District, which runs from Tucson along nearly 300 miles of the border to Yuma, since November 12, 2025. She won the September 2025 special election for the seat her father, Raúl Grijalva, held for more than two decades, and she faces Daniel Butierez again on November 3, 2026. Her congressional record is ten months old, so most of what she has said about this question she said as a candidate rather than as a member.

One week after she was sworn in she cosponsored 56 bills, the Block the Bombs Act among them. Its author, Rep. Delia Ramirez, describes the bill as one that would withhold the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel and demand compliance with U.S. and international law, and her June 2026 release names Grijalva among its 73 cosponsors. On July 15, 2026, Grijalva was one of 27 members who released a joint statement ahead of a vote on an amendment to halt certain U.S. funding to the government of Israel. The members wrote that they “do not support providing an additional $3.3 billion of American taxpayer dollars to be used for Israeli military operations in Gaza and Lebanon”, and that the human rights conditions already attached to American security assistance had not been meaningfully enforced.

She set out her view of the war at a Citizens Clean Elections Commission debate in Tucson on August 26, 2025, during the special election campaign. She said the United States should “compel Israel to come to the table to create a two-state solution”, and, pointing to United Nations findings, said that a famine and a genocide had been declared and that there is a systematic attack on people. Asked why she would take a position at all, she said “When you look at children who are starving, how can you sit back and say, ‘I'm not going to take a position?’”. She also said “The same way I can condemn Hamas, I am supportive of the Palestinian people being able to live in peace, security and dignity”, and KJZZ reported that she said criticism of the Israeli government should not be conflated with antisemitism.

On June 5, 2026 she was one of 85 members who signed a letter asking Secretary of State Marco Rubio to press the government of Israel to halt settlement construction in the E-1 area of the West Bank, which the letter calls annexation in its clearest form. Her position has not always been this clear. In July 2025, before the special election, Jewish Insider reported that she did not answer a question about sending U.S. arms to the government of Israel on a call with Progressive Democrats of America, a progressive advocacy group backing her campaign. Her congressional newsroom carries nothing further: 118 releases published between November 2025 and September 2026 name Israel, Gaza or Palestinians nowhere except in that first week’s list of bills. Her campaign site has no issues page. Her earlier record, including a 2011 trip to Israel paid for by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group that works to strengthen U.S. support for the government of Israel, and what she said and did as a Pima County supervisor, is on her research page.

Tracked votes: opposed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 1 of 1 recorded votes.

Research

Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless the entry says otherwise, and her congressional newsroom was read in full: twelve listing pages and all 118 press releases published between November 2025 and September 2026. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Her recorded House vote is shown as a badge on this card and is not re-counted here. One caution runs through this whole file: her father, Raúl Grijalva, represented this district from 2003 until his death in March 2025, and a great deal of material about a Representative Grijalva and Israel is his. Every item below was checked to confirm it is about Adelita Grijalva.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

The race

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Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

Also in this race: Daniel Butierez Sr. (Republican) · All Arizona candidates.

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