Michael A Jr 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).
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.
Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.
Research
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 the earlier pass, 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. Off the card (C1) 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 he holds a "lifelong support for Israel and the Jewish people 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 in this batch 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: Elbert Bartell (Independent), Christopher Paul Capparell (Republican), Christina Loren Rev Dr Truste Clement (Republican), Develle Lavaughn Jackson (Independent), Jon Ossoff (Democrat) · All Georgia candidates.
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