But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Mike Collins
At a 2024 memorial Collins vowed to "make sure that Israel has the resources to defend themselves", and his votes have gone the same way. Nothing located from him addresses U.S. aid to Palestinians (research).
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Deep Dive
Collins represents a Georgia district in the U.S. House and is the Republican nominee for the Senate.
His position is short and he has stated it. Speaking at a memorial in 2024 he said he would "make sure that Israel has the resources to defend themselves". His recorded votes on this site's tracked measures run in that direction without exception, including in July 2026, when the House rejected an amendment that would have struck $3.3 billion in security assistance to the government of Israel from the annual appropriations bill.
He has said less about the war itself, and what there is comes through other people. In February 2024 a Palestinian-American constituent recorded a conversation in which, as CAIR-Georgia's complaint about it records, he said that "as an American" he was not offended by what Israel was doing in Gaza. The group's own characterisation of those actions is its wording, not his, and it is not adopted here. Three months later he posted a video of counter-protesters confronting pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of Mississippi and later partly backtracked after criticism that the clip showed racist gestures toward a Black student.
Nothing located from him addresses U.S. aid to Palestinians. A separate strand runs alongside all of this: he has faced repeated allegations of antisemitism, over a reply to a post about a Jewish journalist, over his son-in-law's writing, and over the company he keeps. Those are set out with their sources on his research page, and they are context rather than an answer on what the United States sends.
The record
Supported sending weapons or funding in 6 of 6 tracked votes
• October 7, 2024: Spoke at a Georgia memorial marking the first anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack, condemning Hamas, calling the U.S. Israel's 'greatest friend,' and vowing to 'make sure that Israel has the resources to defend themselves.'
• July 15, 2026: Voted (with all other House Republicans) against Rep. Thomas Massie's amendment to the FY2027 National Security-State appropriations bill that would have stripped $3.3 billion in U.S. security assistance to Israel; the amendment was defeated 104-314, with Massie the only Republican to support it. (This is a House floor vote carried on Collins' House record.)
• July 2026: Collins' Senate campaign publicly positioned him against Ossoff on Israel weapons policy, with a spokesperson stating that 'Jon Ossoff voted to block weapons sales to Israel' while Collins 'has always put America's and Israel's safety first.'
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
$5K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
In their words
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, 2024-10-07] At a memorial event he said he would "make sure that Israel has the resources to defend themselves", reported by a Atlanta Journal-Constitution political correspondent. Carried forward from an earlier check, which verified the span.
- [Position, 2026-07-15] The House rejected an amendment that would have struck $3.3 billion in security assistance to the government of Israel from the annual appropriations bill, 104 to 314. Roll Call's account records that the amendment's own sponsor was the only Republican to support it. Collins voted against the cut, in line with every other tracked vote of his.
- [Position, 2024 to 2026] His other recorded votes appear as badges on this card with their own roll-call sources and are not re-listed in prose.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-17] Joined Georgia's House Republicans in a joint statement backing Israel and calling for swift United States funding and defence support. The carrier offered is a Facebook video that returns no readable text. Not on the card summary in any case.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-02-07] In a conversation recorded by a Palestinian-American constituent he said that "as an American" he was not offended by Israel's actions in Gaza. The account of it is CAIR-Georgia's press release of 2024-02-08, which demands an apology. Two limits, stated plainly: the release is an advocacy group's account of a recording rather than a transcript we have read, and the release's own description of what Israel was doing is its wording, quoted nowhere here and adopted nowhere here.
- [Position, 2024-05-03 to 2024-05-06] Posted a video of counter-protesters confronting pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of Mississippi, and after criticism that the clip showed a counter-protester making racist gestures toward a Black student, partly backtracked while defending his decision to share it. A second account of the same episode, at https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/mike-collins-university-mississippi/85-17bd708d-f879-400d-a2e5-c2c99c27e8b4, refuses our requests.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2026-07-17] A campaign spokesperson said Collins' "lifelong support for Israel and the Jewish people is guided by his personal beliefs", per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. A spokesperson's words, recorded as such.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2024-03-03 to 2024-03-04] Replied approvingly to a post from an account that appeared to reference a Washington Post reporter's Jewish background, then rejected the criticism, writing that critics "just see stuff that ain't there". The Times of Israel covered it at the time, and The Jerusalem Post revisited it during the Senate race.
- [Position, 2026-07-16 to 2026-07-30] Reporting that his son-in-law had published antisemitic and white nationalist material online, in The Guardian and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; his campaign said he "has always condemned all forms of antisemitism, including this, and always will regardless of the source". Asked about it at a press event later that month he redirected to his opponent and ended the conference.
- [Position, 2026-08] Further coverage of social media posts by him and by people around him, at Capitol Beat.
- All of this is context on his conduct and associations. It is not an answer to what the United States sends, and it is not used as one. His general-election opponent has made it an issue in the race; that is recorded under race context.
Race and status context
- Sitting U.S. Representative for a Georgia district and Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, per his biography.
- His general-election opponent, the incumbent senator, has his own card on this site and has attacked him directly over these allegations.
- Endorsed by Club for Growth (out of scope for this issue; listed so a reader can see what was read).
Also in this race
- ?Mixed Jon Ossoff (Democrat)
- ?Mixed Christina Clement (write-in) (Republican)
- –No Position Found Al Bartell (write-in) (Independent)
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