Andrea James

Other · Governor, Massachusetts

James's campaign calls on Massachusetts to "Rescind The Deal With Sheba Healthcare", an Israeli hospital system, and her platform's "NO WAR NO GENOCIDE" plank opposes "the genocide at the hands of the State of Israel". Nothing located from her addresses U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel.

James, a former criminal defense attorney who founded Families for Justice as Healing after her own time in prison, is running for governor as an unenrolled candidate against the incumbent, Maura Healey. Her campaign site carries a petition page, "Palestine For AJ", calling on the state to "Rescind The Deal With Sheba Healthcare". Sheba Medical Center, an Israeli hospital system outside Tel Aviv, announced in May 2025 that it would open a health-technology start-up accelerator in Greater Boston, and by March 2026 the accelerator was home to six start-ups. The petition page says the campaign remains "mindful of the devastating violence in Gaza over the past three years, rooted in a decades-long occupation", that "Hospitals in Gaza have been bombed repeatedly, killing patients and healthcare workers", and: "That is why we believe it is our responsibility to support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israeli companies." It calls Sheba "deeply tied to the Israeli military".

Her platform lists "NO WAR NO GENOCIDE" among thirteen issue headings, beside housing, healthcare and a new women's prison. That page says the campaign "stands in opposition to the genocide at the hands of the State of Israel and inflicted upon the Palestinian people", opposes Massachusetts "welcoming companies from Israel that have funded the State of Israel to carry out the genocide of the Palestinian people", and says: "We oppose any restrictions on free speech concerning Israel/Palestine". Massachusetts Peace Action, a Cambridge-based peace advocacy group, endorsed her on June 3, 2026.

Those are her campaign's words on the conflict and on what the state should do. Nothing located from her addresses U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or U.S. aid to Palestinians, questions a governor does not decide. You are better placed to change that than we are. Ask James directly and send us the reply: it goes on this page in her own words.

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One search was read as a lead list for this card, run 2026-09-04, and every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-05 unless marked otherwise. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. A Massachusetts governor casts no federal votes, so there is no vote record to restate. Her campaign's pages are undated and are recorded on the date they were read.

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Also in this race: Maura Healey (Democrat), Michael Minogue (Republican) · All Massachusetts candidates.

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