Phil Weiser
In May 2024 Weiser told a Denver audience that being a Zionist does not require supporting the current Israeli government's actions or policies, and that his family seder recognized the suffering and deaths of Palestinians. Nothing located from him addresses U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel.
Weiser is the Attorney General of Colorado and the Democratic nominee for governor. Foreign military policy is not the office's lane, so what he has said matters more here than what he has voted on, because he has never had a vote on it.
His fullest statement is a set of prepared remarks he published on the Attorney General's own site in May 2024, and it draws lines carefully. He wrote: "For those willing to listen, it is not hard to explain that being a Zionist means you believe that Israel has a right to exist. It does not mean that you necessarily support all of the actions or policies of the current government. It does not mean that Israel has not made mistakes in the war against Hamas. And, most importantly, it does not mean that Jews don't care about the deaths of Palestinians during this war." In the same remarks: "At my family seder this year, we recognized the suffering and deaths of Palestinians during this war." The same document treats the chants "kill all Zionists" and "go back to Poland" as antisemitic rhetoric rather than criticism of Israeli policy, and calls for the release of the hostages.
On safety he has been direct. After the June 2025 firebombing on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall he wrote that it was an antisemitic attack on Jews who were peacefully calling for the release of hostages, and he has criticized a rival for hesitating to call it antisemitic. That is a position about hate crimes at home, not about what the United States sends abroad.
On what the United States sends there is nothing. His campaign's fifteen issue areas, his own official remarks, and a topic-by-topic comparison of the two primary candidates all pass over U.S. weapons, arms transfers, aid packages, conditions on transfers and funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and nothing was found on Colorado's own statute requiring the state pension fund to divest from companies that boycott Israel. A reader in Colorado is better placed to close that gap than we are. Ask him what he would say about U.S. weapons and money for the government of Israel, and send us the reply; it will go on his research page in his own words.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- Nothing located. This is a finding, not an absence of work. The record already carried a dated receipt from 2026-07-28 recording that his campaign issues page lists fifteen issue areas and none of them is foreign policy; that his campaign home and endorsements pages, his own official Celebrate Israel remarks, the 2024 Jewish Insider interview, the 2026 JNS interview and the reports of his primary win carry no position on U.S. weapons or funding; and that a topic-by-topic Colorado Sun comparison of the two primary candidates covering taxes, labor, healthcare, energy, emissions, water and agriculture has no Israel, Gaza or foreign-policy topic in it at all. Seven named news searches were run for a position and returned none, including one specifically for Colorado's anti-boycott pension-divestment statute.
- A fresh round of searching for this card added no weapons or money position either. Outlets describe him in general terms as a supporter of Israel; general description is not a position on transfers.
- As attorney general he has no vote on any of this site's tracked bills, and none is claimed for him.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located on humanitarian funding, the aid pipeline, or the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. His May 2024 remarks acknowledge Palestinian deaths but say nothing about American aid.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-05-05] Prepared remarks, JEWISHcolorado Celebrate Israel event, on the Attorney General's own site, opened and confirmed word for word. Quoted: "For those willing to listen, it is not hard to explain that being a Zionist means you believe that Israel has a right to exist. It does not mean that you necessarily support all of the actions or policies of the current government. It does not mean that Israel has not made mistakes in the war against Hamas. And, most importantly, it does not mean that Jews don't care about the deaths of Palestinians during this war." And: "At my family seder this year, we recognized the suffering and deaths of Palestinians during this war." The remarks also compare the moment to 1948, call for the hostages to be freed, and treat the chants "kill all Zionists" and "go back to Poland" as antisemitic rhetoric. The passages placing the attack that started the war are inside the reaction window by subject and are not used on the card.
- [Position, 2024-09-25] Prepared remarks at Denver's Babi Yar memorial, on rising antisemitic incidents nationally and in Colorado.
- [Position, 2025-09-25] The following year's Babi Yar address, returning to the Boulder attack.
- [Position, 2025-11-20] At an event hosted by the Jewish Democratic Council of America he said attacks on Jews are wrong without qualification, per JNS.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-08] A social-media post expressing grief and standing with Israel. Off the card (C1). No page-level address resolved for the post itself.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-10] Spoke at a community vigil at a Denver synagogue, invoking his family's Holocaust history, reported on a colleague's House site. Off the card (C1).
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2026-04-06] He took part in a gubernatorial candidate forum organized by Colorado Muslim Vote. No source for this came back resolved, so it is recorded here as unverified and is not on the card.
- [Position, 2026-08-05] Campaign imagery from opponents depicted him with horns and he called it an old antisemitic trope. The carrier is Forward, which refuses one route and answers a desktop browser. About the campaign, not about weapons or aid.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-06-02] Statement on the Boulder firebombing, on his campaign site, opened and read in full (801 words): he calls it a hate crime and "an antisemitic attack on fellow Jews who were peacefully calling out the injustice of the continued captivity and inhumane treatment of hostages". The statement also carries Colorado incident figures.
- [Position, 2026-07-02] Jewish Insider on his criticism of a rival candidate for declining to call the Boulder attack antisemitic.
- [Unconfirmed] A Jerusalem Post item and a CBS Colorado report were listed by the research round. Both open to a desktop browser. Neither carries a weapons or funding position from him.
Race and status context
- He is the Democratic nominee for governor and the sitting Attorney General. Both facts are on the record and neither is a position on this question.
Consulted
- His campaign issues, home and endorsements pages; his own official remarks on the Attorney General's site; the Colorado Sun's primary comparison; Jewish Insider, JNS, JTA, Forward, the Jerusalem Post and CBS Colorado; a YouTube item that does not name him in any recoverable text.
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