Maura Healey

Asked in May 2024 whether the president should condition funding for military equipment for the government of Israel, Healey said the United States "should continue to support Israel with that funding". She has not returned to U.S. weapons or money since (research).

Healey is Massachusetts's governor, seeking a second term. She has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are hers, and her record on this question is what she has said and what her administration has done.

The statement above is the whole of her position on U.S. funding, and it is two years old. On a Boston public radio programme in May 2024 she was asked whether the president should have put conditions on funding military equipment for the government of Israel. She backed his call for a cease-fire and then said the United States "should continue to support Israel with that funding". A Boston.com account of the same exchange described her as agreeing with the decision to keep sending military aid without conditions. That description is the reporter's, not hers, and the card uses her words rather than the summary.

As governor she has built one state connection to an Israeli institution. In May 2025 she hosted the leadership of Sheba Medical Center at the State House to mark its decision to open its first U.S. health care startup accelerator in Massachusetts, appearing with the Israeli Consul General to New England. On the radio in July 2025 a caller asked why residents should trust a company the caller said supports the Israeli military. She defended the arrangement, called it "really cool that a company that is so focused on health care and innovation is coming to Massachusetts", and welcomed investment made at "no cost to us". The reporter recorded that she did not directly discuss Gaza. Protesters outside the State House in December 2025 asked her to sever the state's ties to the hospital system; nothing located records her doing so, or answering them on the substance.

Her other action on this ground is domestic and it is substantial. Her administration set up a state commission on antisemitism, endorsed its recommendations, and in March 2026 gave about $1.6 million of a state nonprofit security round to 55 Jewish organizations and synagogues. That is money the state spends at home on safety, not money the United States sends abroad, and it is set out on the research page as the separate thing it is. If you want a current answer from her on what the United States sends, or any answer at all on aid to Palestinians, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Healey directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in her own words.

Research

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

• [Position, 2024-05-03] On GBH's Boston Public Radio, broadcast live from UMass Boston, asked whether the president should have put conditions on funding military equipment for Israel (Boston Globe, read and verified verbatim): "I think the president has been clear on calling for a cease-fire — something that I support," and "I think it’s also clear that we should continue to support Israel with that funding." Direction named: for continued U.S. funding of military equipment for the government of Israel, without conditions attached.
• [Position, 2024-05-05] Boston.com on the same exchange: "Healey then said that she supports calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war but agrees with President Joe Biden’s decision to continue sending military aid to Israel without conditions." This is the reporter's characterisation, not a Healey quotation, and it is used here only as corroboration of the Globe's account.
• [Position, 2024 onward] Nothing located in which she supports or opposes conditions on U.S. military aid at any point after May 2024. A fresh search in August 2026 confirms it: she has issued solidarity statements, antisemitism statements and state grant announcements since, and none of them touches U.S. weapons, arms transfers or federal funding.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

• Nothing located in any band. She has not been recorded taking a position on humanitarian funding for Gaza or on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Characterization of the conflict

• [Reaction window, 2023-10-09] At a solidarity rally on Boston Common she said Massachusetts stands with Israel, and recalled Israeli emergency teams' help after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, per the Daily Free Press. Off the card (C1): dated inside the reaction window.
• [Position, 2025-07] On GBH's Boston Public Radio, answering a caller who asked why residents should trust a company the caller said supports the Israeli military (State House News Service report carried by the Daily Hampshire Gazette, read and verified verbatim): "I think it’s really cool that a company that is so focused on health care and innovation is coming to Massachusetts," and she welcomed "investments that others want to make, no cost to us," which is where that span ends before the sentence runs on. The article states that she "did not directly discuss the conflict in Gaza" and notes that the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center website describes the hospital as "tightly integrated with the IDF," which is the article's own quotation of that site. The article is dated in its own address to July 4, 2025 and places the exchange on the preceding Wednesday; because no day-precise date is printed on the page, no quote entry is created from it and the spans are used in the card copy instead.

State action: the Sheba Medical Center accelerator

• [Position, 2025-05-06] Hosted Sheba's director general and the Israeli Consul General to New England at the State House to celebrate Sheba's decision to launch ARC, its first U.S. health care startup accelerator, in Greater Boston (mass.gov). The Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center took part. ARC's founder described the arrangement as a strategic partnership with the Commonwealth. This is inbound investment rather than state money sent abroad, which is why the card does not treat it as a funding position.
• [Position, 2025-12-16] Protesters with Massachusetts Peace Action and the Alliance for Water Justice held a die-in outside the State House (State House News Service), asking her to denounce the launch, sever all state ties to the accelerator and stop using taxpayer money to support it. The article records her calling Sheba "a true global leader" in May and reiterating the state's commitment to fighting antisemitism at a menorah lighting that week. Nothing located records any change to the arrangement.
• [Position, 2026] The campaign against the accelerator continues on two organizing sites, an Action Network petition and a water-justice coalition page, both of which name her. They are campaigning material, not statements of hers, and nothing on the card rests on them.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

• [Prior, 2016-05] As attorney general she took part in an educational delegation to Israel organized by the American-Israel Friendship League with the Israeli foreign ministry. Recorded on a public-record compilation site rather than in her own words, and used for nothing beyond the fact of the trip.
• [Prior, 2022-06-11] As attorney general she was among Massachusetts Democrats who criticized an anonymous project mapping Boston-area Jewish and civic organizations, per the Times of Israel. The report names her among the critics without quoting her, which is how it is recorded here.
• [Position, 2024-05-21] On protest encampments at state universities she said there is no place for hate, violence or threats of violence on college campuses, reported by the Nation in a piece critical of the response. The same Boston Globe report cited above records her comfort with the police response at two other campuses. Not on the card: it is about policing protest in Massachusetts, not about what the United States sends.
• [Position, 2026-07-25] Her campaign endorsements page lists labour, reproductive-rights, environmental and gun-safety organisations along with officeholders. No endorsement from any of the five tracked committees was found. Her campaign site carries no issues or policy section, and nothing on this subject.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

• [Position, 2024-07] She signed the state budget that created a Massachusetts special commission on combating antisemitism.
• [Position, 2024-10-29] Her statement for the commission's first meeting is published by the state at https://www.mass.gov/news/governor-healey-issues-statement-on-combatting-antisemitism. That address refused our request on 2026-08-18, so it is not linked and nothing from it is quoted here. The gather round records the statement as calling the rise in antisemitism alarming, heartbreaking and unacceptable.
• [Position, 2025-12-17] She joined legislative leaders to endorse the commission's final recommendations, reported by WBZ NewsRadio.
• [Position, 2026-03-11] About $1.6 million of a $4,965,000 state nonprofit security round went to 55 Jewish organizations and synagogues, roughly a third of both the recipients and the money, per a JNS analysis of the published grant list. Verified verbatim: "Hate and violence have no place in Massachusetts." And: "Organizations that serve our communities should never have to worry about their safety. These grants will help nonprofits strengthen security so people can safely gather, practice their faith and access the services they rely on." State money spent at home, not federal money sent abroad.
• [Position, 2025-10-07] Official statement on the second anniversary of the Hamas attack: it condemns the attack, renews "our call for the return of all hostages and lasting peace in the region." and makes no reference to U.S. weapons, arms transfers or funding. Read and verified 2026-08-17.

Race and status context

• Democratic incumbent seeking re-election, per Ballotpedia's race page and her Ballotpedia profile.
• Her tracked vote cells are all not-in-office.