But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Young Kim
- Backed with $38K by PACs we track that support U.S. weapons funding for the government of Israel (lifetime)
- Endorsed by AIPAC
- Sits on House Foreign Affairs
Kim wrote in an April 2024 op-ed urging aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan that "weapons and other aid provided must be targeted and used as intended." In May 2024 she said the Biden administration should stop playing political games over paused weapons shipments to Israel.
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Deep Dive
In an April 8, 2024 op-ed for The Hill, Kim urged Congress to support Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, writing that "Israel is defending its right to exist against Hamas terrorists" and that "weapons and other aid provided must be targeted and used as intended, and my colleagues and I on the Foreign Affairs Committee are continuing to conduct oversight of aid that has been sent by the United States." That oversight sentence covers U.S. aid to all three allies, not Israel alone. In May 2024, after the administration paused certain bomb shipments, she said the administration needed to stop playing political games with Israel's security. She voted for the Israel aid bills on the site's badge list.
On October 7, 2024, she co-introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning Hamas's attack one year on and urging release of the hostages held in Gaza. In the weeks after October 7, 2023, she condemned the attack as unprovoked, said she wholeheartedly stands with Israel, called it on the House floor the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, and co-led a letter from nearly 90 lawmakers pressing UN Women to condemn Hamas's sexual violence.
As history: in February 2022 she traveled to Israel on a delegation organized by the American Israel Education Foundation, an AIPAC affiliate, meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders. In July 2023, after a House resolution on the U.S.-Israel partnership, she said in a video statement that Israel is not a racist or apartheid state.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Vote record imported from official House Clerk roll calls for H.R. 6126, H.R. 8034, and H.R. 8369. Other position fields remain under investigation.
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
$38K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
AIPAC (2026 endorsement)
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Searched 2026-08-10 for: Kim antisemitism IHRA bill; Kim California House Israel stance; Kim Israel military aid; Kim Foreign Affairs Committee 2024; Kim campus protests; Kim HEAL Act 2025; Kim October 7 statement). Recorded key votes and AIPAC/RJC totals are badges. One source found is Senator Andy Kim's site; see exclusions.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- 2024-04-08 [Current position; verified against source]: Op-ed for The Hill: "Israel is defending its right to exist against Hamas terrorists"; "Weapons and other aid provided must be targeted and used as intended, and my colleagues and I on the Foreign Affairs Committee are continuing to conduct oversight of aid that has been sent by the United States." Verification note: the oversight sentence covers aid to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel broadly; the paraphrase in the search notes tying it to Israel-specific military aid overstates. Op-ed repost. The advocacy site boughtbyzionism.org carries the same fragment; not used for card support.
- 2024-05-22 [Current position; inline date comes from the text itself; video undated; quote not independently verified]: Criticized the administration over paused weapon shipments to Israel; quoted as saying it should "stop playing political games with Israel's security." Rendered attributively on the card. Video.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2023-10-10 [Months after October 7, 2023]: Release condemning the "unprovoked attack by Hamas terrorists on the people of Israel"; said she "wholeheartedly stand[s] with Israel"; drew a parallel to growing up in postwar South Korea under threat from North Korea. Release.
- 2023-10-25 [Months after October 7, 2023]: House floor: a "barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists"; Iran-backed groups "want to wipe Israel off the map"; October 7 was "the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust." Release, floor video.
- 2023-12-07 [Months after October 7, 2023; inline date comes from the text itself]: Floor remarks criticizing UN Women's two-month delay in condemning Hamas's weaponization of sexual violence on October 7. Video.
- 2024-10-07 [Current position]: Co-introduced bipartisan resolution condemning the October 7 attack one year later, commemorating over 1,200 killed, urging immediate release of hostages held in Gaza. Release.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2022-02-18 to 2022-02-26 [Earlier record]: Congressional delegation trip to Israel organized and sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), an AIPAC affiliate; met Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Trip announcement, reflection release.
- 2023-07-18 [Earlier record; own social video; quote not independently verified]: After a House resolution on the U.S.-Israel partnership: "Israel is not a racist or apartheid state"; the U.S. "will always be a staunch partner...of Israel." Facebook video, the page opened.
- 2023-12-01 [Months after October 7, 2023]: Co-led bipartisan letter of nearly 90 lawmakers demanding UN Women condemn Hamas's atrocities; letter cited a "one-sided approach" and "longstanding bias against Israel." Multi-signer document; words belong to the joint letter. Release.
Safety and antisemitism (context, not a weapons or funding position)
- 2023-07-18 [Earlier record]: "Racism, anti-Semitism, and hate of any kind have no place in our country." Facebook video.
- 2024-04/05 [Current position; month-level dating from the search notes]: Co-sponsored and supported the Antisemitism Awareness Act (H.R. 6090), directing the Education Department to use the IHRA working definition in campus discrimination reviews. Jewish Federations statement, Gottheimer release.
- 2025-01-27 [Current position]: Co-led reintroduction of the HEAL Act with Rep. Gottheimer: "as we mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and see rising antisemitism across the country - especially on college campuses - we are reminded of the dire need to ensure the horrors of the Holocaust are taught and stories are passed down." Release.
Identity sources
- Identity claim (distinct from Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey) was grounded partly on a kim.senate.gov page that belongs to Andy Kim, plus an ait.org.tw link that would not open and an unrelated YouTube video. The Andy Kim page is excluded from all content use.
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