Paul A. Gosar

Gosar's congressional site calls him an ardent supporter of Israel and lists his 2016 vote for a resolution urging a new memorandum of understanding on U.S. military assistance to the government of Israel. The same page says a more independent Israel is a stronger Israel.

Paul Gosar is a dentist from Arizona who has sat in the U.S. House since January 2011, first for the 1st District, then the 4th, and since 2023 the 9th, which takes in most of western Arizona, including parts of La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave and Yuma counties and the cities of Kingman and Lake Havasu City. He is running for re-election on November 3, 2026 against Danielle Sterbinsky.

His answer to this question sits on his congressional site rather than in his campaign. A page headed Supporting Israel collects what he calls his efforts to promote the prosperity of Israel, and it opens: “As our strongest ally in the Middle East, it is in the vital interest of the United States to stand together with Israel against a rising tide of extremism.” He writes on it that he belongs to the bipartisan United States Israel Allies Caucus and that he is an ardent supporter of Israel. The clearest thing in scope on the page is a vote. In September 2016 he voted for a resolution urging the United States and the government of Israel to finish a new, long-term memorandum of understanding on military assistance, and the House passed it 234 to 4. The page also reproduces a passage from an opinion piece published by a Prescott news site in May 2023, which says that as a congressman he routinely votes in favour of continued military aid for Israel. That piece does not open for us, so nothing beyond the passage his own page prints is taken from it.

The same page closes on the size of that support. “A more independent Israel is a stronger Israel,” he writes. “Less dependence on the United States means the people of Israel can better champion their destiny. Until that day arrives, I will continue to support our ally, and our Jewish friends in Israel, just as I have since being first elected in 2011.” He does not say by how much or by when that dependence should fall, and nothing located has him proposing a bill or an amendment that would change the amount.

On U.S. aid to Palestinians his own account reaches back to his first term. The page says an amendment he wrote to a 2011 defence spending bill prohibited military funds and military assistance from reaching the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah, and it lists a December 2015 letter he signed asking the State Department to revoke the Palestinian Authority's diplomatic status in Washington. It also says he cosponsored a 2014 bill that would have cut off all aid to the Palestinian Authority; the bill number it gives belongs to a different measure whose cosponsors do not include him, so that claim is on his research page rather than here. Nothing located has him speaking about humanitarian aid for Gaza, about the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, or about the aid pipeline, at any date.

Beyond those two pages he has said little lately. Since January 2024 his congressional newsroom has published nothing on the subject, and his campaign site sets out twelve issues, from Social Security to national defence, none of which is this one.

His page also says: “I abhor antisemitism and will not tolerate racial or ethnic hatred.” That claim has been contested. In April 2023 the Forward, a Jewish American news outlet, reported that his official weekly newsletter had linked to an article on a neo-Nazi website that praised him; he called the accusation “false and defamatory” and wrote that he has a solid record supporting Christians and Jews and other faiths, which “cannot be rationally questioned”. What he has said about Iran, the rest of what is reported about his associations, and everything else found for this card are on his research page.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 4 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

Our research for this card began with a search run on 2026-09-07, and every page below was opened and read on 2026-09-16. His congressional newsroom was read back to April 2020, 240 press releases and 60 opinion pieces in all, each one searched for this subject; three press releases and no opinion piece touch it, and all three are recorded here. The two issue pages that carry his position were read in full, his campaign site's issue page was read, his Ballotpedia page and the race page were read, and the outside reports our research pointed at were opened or recorded as closed. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. His recorded House votes are shown as badges on this card and are not restated here; no tracked funding is recorded on this record.

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

• [Position; the page carries no date of its own and was read 2026-09-16] His congressional site's page headed “Supporting Israel”. Its standing text reads: “As our strongest ally in the Middle East, it is in the vital interest of the United States to stand together with Israel against a rising tide of extremism. Our two nations must show the courage necessary to thwart existential threats to Israel and to make the hard choices necessary to ensure peace. For this reason and more, I am a member of the bipartisan United States Israel Allies Caucus. I am also an ardent supporter of Israel, and I have taken numerous actions to support this nation during my time in Congress.” The page then lists dated items, which are banded below by their own dates. It separates sentences with non-breaking spaces, so two spaces appear on the page where one is quoted here.
• [Position; the page carries no date of its own and was read 2026-09-16] The closing passage of the same page: “As with all countries, my biggest foreign policy goal is to have a positive and peaceful relationship which encourages prosperity. A more independent Israel is a stronger Israel. Less dependence on the United States means the people of Israel can better champion their destiny. Until that day arrives, I will continue to support our ally, and our Jewish friends in Israel, just as I have since being first elected in 2011.” The same passage closes his Foreign Affairs page, which carries the same Israel section inside a wider page about Pakistan, India, the Paris agreement and Iran.
• [Earlier record, 2016-09-13] The page says: “9/16- I voted for H.Res.729, expressing support for a new Memorandum of Understanding on military assistance to Israel.” Checked against the official record: the House Clerk's roll call 504 of September 13, 2016 records Gosar voting Yea, the resolution passing 234 to 4 on a motion to suspend the rules, and its subject as “Expressing support for the expeditious consideration and finalization of a new, robust, and long-term Memorandum of Understanding on military assistance to Israel between the United States Government and the Government of Israel.” GovTrack gives the sponsor as Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and 282 cosponsors.
• [Earlier record, 2023-05-21] The same page reproduces a quotation from an opinion piece: “Never mind that Cong. Gosar has spoken publicly in favor of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Or that as a congressman, he routinely votes in favor of continued military aid for Israel—by far the largest recipient of US foreign aid and military support since its founding in 1948.” Those are the writer's words, republished by his office. The piece itself, at https://prescottenews.com/index.php/2023/05/21/crying-wolf-on-paul-gosar-david-stringer-and-anita-cohen/ , refused both routes on 2026-09-16, so its address is printed rather than linked and nothing beyond the quotation his own page carries is taken from it.
• [Earlier record, 2014-05 and 2014-07] The page records two amendments of his to the National Defense Authorization Act declaring it the policy of the United States to support Israel's lawful exercise of self-defence, the second quoted through a Times of Israel report which notes that the amendment “did not, however, delineate the terms of that ‘support.’” These are policy declarations rather than transfers of money or weapons.
• [Reaction window, 2023-11-02] “Gosar Votes to Support Israel's Security”, his statement after a vote on a supplemental appropriation. Off the card (C1). The same item appears on his issues page under the date 11/23.
• [Reaction window, 2023-10-20] “Gosar Statement on Biden Request to Jointly Fund Wars in Ukraine and Israel”. Off the card (C1). It is the only place where he sets out how he would treat a combined funding package, which is why this card can say less about his position-band votes than the record would otherwise allow. See the flags.
• [Position, 2024-04-19] CBS News reported that he added his name to the motion to vacate the Speaker after the House moved the foreign aid package forward, and printed his statement in full: “I have added my name in support of the motion to vacate the Speaker. Our border cannot be an afterthought. We need a Speaker who puts America first rather than bending to the reckless demands of the warmongers, neo-cons and the military industrial complex making billions from a costly and endless war half a world away.” The statement names no country, and the war it calls half a world away is the one in Ukraine, which his own releases show him voting against funding repeatedly. Nothing in it is about what the United States sends to the government of Israel, and nothing from it is on the card.
• [Position; read 2026-09-16] IssueVoter's page on H.R. 3565, the Block the Bombs Act, which would bar transfers of certain offensive weapons to the government of Israel unless conditions are met, prints the “strongest ally” sentence from his own site under a heading reading “Opponents say”. That is the platform's arrangement of his words, not a statement by him about that bill. This record shows him as not a sponsor of it, and nothing located has him speaking about it.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

• [Earlier record, 2011-07-07] His page says: “My amendment to defund Hamas and Hezbollah passed the House”, and quotes the account: “On July 7, 2011, the United States House of Representatives passed an amendment to HR 2219 sponsored by U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar, DDS (AZ-01), that prohibited the use of any military funds, or military assistance, to the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah.” Within that account he is quoted: “until the Muslim Brotherhood recognizes Israel's right to peacefully co-exist, no U.S. military assistance should be provided to an Egypt controlled even in part by the Muslim Brotherhood.” The page says a second amendment to the same effect followed in 2012.
• [Earlier record, dated 4/14 on the page] The page says: “I was one of less than a dozen House members to co-sponsor “The Stand With Israel Act of 2014”, H.R. 1337, which would have cut all aid to the Palestinian Authority because of its terrorist attacks on Israel.” This did not check out as written. H.R. 1337 of the 113th Congress is the Palestinian Accountability Act, introduced on March 21, 2013 to restrict funds for the Palestinian Authority, and its cosponsor list, 19 names plus the sponsor, does not include Gosar. The Stand with Israel Act of 2014 was S. 2265, a Senate bill, and the link his own page puts on the words points at that Senate bill; no House companion of that name was located. The substance may be right and the bill number wrong, but neither could be confirmed, so the claim stays here and off the card.
• [Earlier record, 2015-12] The page says he was one of 27 members of Congress who wrote to the Obama State Department asking it to revoke the Palestinian Authority's diplomatic status in Washington and close its office. That is about diplomatic recognition rather than aid, and it is recorded here for completeness.
• Nothing located, at any date, in which he speaks about humanitarian aid for Gaza, about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or about the aid pipeline.

Characterization of the conflict

• [Reaction window, 2023-10-10] “Gosar Cosponsors Resolution Supporting Israel's Right to Self-Defense”. Off the card (C1). His office circulated the same statement in the newsletter whose address our research supplied.
• [Reaction window, 2023-10 and 2023-11] His issues page carries two further entries under those dates, a vote on a resolution about the attack of October 7, 2023 and a vote on a censure resolution. Off the card (C1); recorded here with their dates.
• [Position, 2024-06-26] The Jewish News Syndicate reported that the House voted 269 to 144 for an amendment by Rep. Jared Moskowitz barring the State Department from citing casualty figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, and that “Two Republicans, Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Matthew Rosendale (Mont.), also voted against it.” He is named once and no words of his appear. It is a vote about whose figures the State Department may cite rather than about what the United States sends, and he has said nothing about it, so it is recorded here and used nowhere else. It is also out of character with the rest of this record, which is why it carries a flag.
• [Earlier record, 2023-04] The page says he spoke at an event honouring Golda Meir, calling her a “legendary figure”, and that he voted for resolutions on the Abraham Accords and in support of the State of Israel. These are statements of alliance rather than answers about what the United States sends.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

• [Earlier record, 2020-02] The page says: “I attended the AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, dinner in Phoenix, celebrating our strong support for Israel. Tweet and picture here. I have also routinely attended AIPAC events in Washington, D.C.” The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying organisation that works for close United States and Israel ties. The post it links to on X was not read.
• [Earlier record, 2019-07] The page says he cosponsored H.Res. 246 opposing the boycott movement, “which is a movement dripping with antisemitic sentiment and seeks to punish Israeli people and businesses — which would also hurt innocent Palestinians who rely on many of those businesses for jobs.”
• [Earlier record, 2019-02] The page says he wrote to the Education Secretary asking for an investigation into the use of Title VI funding at the University of Arizona's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
• [Earlier record, 2020-11] The page says he wrote to the Secretary of State about Iranian missile sales to Venezuela in collaboration with EMET, which it describes as an Israel policy think tank and advocacy group.
• No tracked funding of any kind is recorded on this record, and nothing located has him speaking about donations from any organisation on this subject.

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

• [Position; the page carries no date of its own and was read 2026-09-16] His page says: “I abhor antisemitism and will not tolerate racial or ethnic hatred. This principle guided me in voting to remove the racist Rep. Omar from her committee and to oppose aid to Nazis in Ukraine.” The same paragraph stands on his Foreign Affairs page with “principal” in place of “principle”.
• [Earlier record, 2023-04-24 by the page's own metadata; the piece describes events of Sunday, April 23] The Forward's report, headed “GOP congressman defends sharing link to antisemitic site”. It says his weekly newsletter of April 10, 2023 shared a link to a neo-Nazi website that praised him while omitting the antisemitic wording of the original headline, and that Media Matters reported it after the Forward had highlighted his criticism of United States support for Ukraine. It quotes him: “I have a solid record supporting Christians and Jews and other faiths” and “This cannot be rationally questioned”, reports that he called the accusation “false and defamatory”, and quotes him saying “it's not possible to read every article on every website we link to”. The report describes him in its own words as having ties to white nationalists and as having associated himself with white nationalists and a pro-Nazi blogger; those are the outlet's characterisations. It also quotes Paul Rockower of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix rejecting his claims of friendship with the Jewish community; those are Mr Rockower's words and are not used on the card.
• [Position, 2024-05-01] His Ballotpedia page records him voting Yea on H.R. 6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023, which passed the House 320 to 91 on May 1, 2024.
• The reports our research cited about his appearances at the America First Political Action Conference in 2021 and 2022, and about former interns' social media posts, are listed below among the pages that could not be read. Nothing is claimed from them.

What the campaign site and own pages say

• [Position; read 2026-09-16] His campaign site's issues page sets out twelve headings: Social Security, the Second Amendment, debt and spending, energy and natural resources, immigration and border security, infrastructure, jobs and the economy, military and veterans, national defence, religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and taxes. Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, foreign aid, weapons transfers and foreign policy appear nowhere on it. A direct request returned 403 and the page was read through a rendering retrieval. Two other addresses, paulgosar.com and gosarforcongress.com, are a parked lander and a frameset pointing at an unclaimed address; drpaulgosar.com is the live campaign site.
• [Position; read 2026-09-16] His congressional newsroom. Every press release back to April 2020 was listed and searched, 240 of them, and the only items in scope are the three from October and November 2023 recorded above. Since January 2024 there is nothing. His published opinion pieces, sixty of them going back to 2013, include one from February 2025 about ending the war between Ukraine and Russia and nothing on this subject.
• [Undated; read 2026-09-16] His two issue pages are the whole of his published position. The Foreign Affairs page carries 2017 in its address metadata but its content runs to June 2023, so both pages are treated as live pages and recorded on the day they were read.

The race

• [Read 2026-09-16] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Arizona's 9th District: “Incumbent Paul Gosar, Danielle Sterbinsky, William Perry, and G. Seville Hatch are running in the general election for U.S. House Arizona District 9 on November 3, 2026.” William Perry and G. Seville Hatch are write-in candidates. The primary was July 21, 2026 and the filing deadline was March 23, 2026. Gosar was unopposed in the Republican primary and took 67,577 votes; Sterbinsky was unopposed in the Democratic primary and took 31,371.
• [Read 2026-09-16] His Ballotpedia page records him in the House since 2011, for the 1st District from 2011 to 2013, the 4th from 2013 to 2023 and the 9th since 2023. He has not completed Ballotpedia's candidate survey.
• [Position, 2026-08-27] A Phoenix television report on the state debate schedule says he did not respond to the Citizens Clean Elections Commission's invitations to the district debate, which his opponent attended alone (Arizona's Family, 2026-08-21, updated 2026-09-16). That is recorded on her card.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

• The Prescott news site opinion piece his own page quotes, at https://prescottenews.com/index.php/2023/05/21/crying-wolf-on-paul-gosar-david-stringer-and-anita-cohen/ . Both routes refused on 2026-09-16. The quotation his page carries was read on his page.
• The Washington Post report of June 29, 2021 and the Axios report of April 1, 2022 about his appearances at the America First Political Action Conference, at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/29/gop-congressman-appears-ally-with-white-nationalists-again/ and https://www.axios.com/2022/04/01/gosar-white-nationalist-event . Both refused on 2026-09-16, as they did for our research. Nothing about those appearances is claimed anywhere on this card.
• The Arizona Mirror report of January 5, 2024 about former interns, republished at https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ex-gosar-staffers-have-voiced-racism-antisemitism-and-homophobia-social-media , which refused on 2026-09-16. It falls inside the weeks this site keeps to research pages in any event.
• congress.gov, which refused every request on both routes on 2026-09-16. The House Clerk's roll-call records and GovTrack were read in its place.
• His accounts on X, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, official and campaign: https://x.com/RepGosar , https://www.facebook.com/repgosar/ , https://www.youtube.com/@repgosar , https://x.com/DrPaulGosar , https://www.facebook.com/DrPaulGosar and https://www.instagram.com/repgosar . None was read here. The floor speech his page links to on YouTube, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2y81dqdtrY , was not watched.
• No iVoterGuide profile, League of Women Voters questionnaire or local voter guide entry carrying answers from him was located for this race.

Not on the card, and why

• His three statements of October and November 2023 and the two entries on his issues page under those dates: they fall in the weeks this site keeps to research pages. They are above with their dates.
• Everything he has said about Iran, including the Iran section of his Foreign Affairs page, the November 2020 letter about Iranian missile sales and the mentions of Iran inside other statements: Iran is a different question from what the United States sends to the government of Israel.
• Everything he has said about Ukraine, including the April 2024 statement on the motion to vacate the Speaker and the February 2025 opinion piece: the statement names no country in this conflict and is about the war in Ukraine and the southern border.
• The claim that he cosponsored a 2014 bill cutting off all aid to the Palestinian Authority: the bill number his page gives belongs to a different measure whose cosponsors do not include him, and no House bill of the name his page uses was located. It is set out above with everything that was checked.
• The June 2024 vote reported by the Jewish News Syndicate: a third party's account of a vote about which he has said nothing, and about whose casualty figures may be cited rather than about what the United States sends.
• The words of the opinion writer his page quotes, of the Forward's reporter, and of Paul Rockower: other people's words. Only his own are used on the card.
• The Cuba, immigration, land, mining, water, vaccine, election and Grand Canyon material that fills most of his newsroom and all of his campaign site: out of scope.
• Danielle Sterbinsky's record and her criticism of him: they belong on her own card.
• His recorded votes on the bills this site tracks: they are shown as badges on this card.

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

• https://gosar.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=15281 (opened; 2026-09-16; the page carries no date of its own)
• https://gosar.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=15182 (opened; 2026-09-16; its address metadata gives 2017, its content runs to June 2023)
• https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27 and all 240 press releases it lists from April 2020 to June 2026, plus the 60 opinion pieces at https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=30 (opened; 2026-09-16)
• https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7078 , https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7059 and https://gosar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7040 (opened; 2026-09-16; published 2023-11-02, 2023-10-20 and 2023-10-10)
• https://gosar.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=IRUIKBCVWSKCWPJPX4KGJCF6GY (opened; 2026-09-16; the newsletter carrying the statement of 2023-10-10)
• https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll504.xml (opened; 2026-09-16; roll call 504 of 2016-09-13)
• https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hres729 and https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1337/cosponsors (opened; 2026-09-16)
• https://drpaulgosar.com/issues (opened through a rendering retrieval; 2026-09-16; a direct request returned 403)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Paul_Gosar and https://ballotpedia.org/Arizona%27s_9th_Congressional_District_election,_2026 (opened; 2026-09-16)
• https://forward.com/fast-forward/544268/gop-congressman-paul-gosar-antisemitic-website/ (opened; 2026-09-16; published 2023-04-24 by the page's own metadata)
• https://www.jns.org/israel-news/house-votes-to-bar-state-department-from-citing-hamas-casualty-figures (opened; 2026-09-16; published 2024-06-27)
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-johnson-motion-to-vacate-paul-gosar/ (opened; 2026-09-16; published 2024-04-19)
• https://issuevoter.org/bills/4594/hr3565-119-to-provide-for-a-limitation-on-the-transfer-of-defense-articles-and-defense-services-to-israel-hr-3565 (opened; 2026-09-16)
• https://prescottenews.com/index.php/2023/05/21/crying-wolf-on-paul-gosar-david-stringer-and-anita-cohen/ , https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/29/gop-congressman-appears-ally-with-white-nationalists-again/ , https://www.axios.com/2022/04/01/gosar-white-nationalist-event , https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ex-gosar-staffers-have-voiced-racism-antisemitism-and-homophobia-social-media and https://www.congress.gov/ (could not open; 2026-09-16)
• This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-07 and 2026-09-16, not a claim that no other statement exists.