Shiva Dr Ayyadurai

Independent · U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

Ayyadurai's Senate platform lists "Stop taxpayer subsidies to Israel and others" among its planks, and in an October 2024 questionnaire during his presidential run he named "Ending all funding to Israel" as his first priority in office. Nothing located from him addresses U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

Ayyadurai, an engineer and entrepreneur with four MIT degrees who ran for the Senate in 2020 and as a write-in for president in 2024, is on the November ballot as an independent. Plank nine of his eleven-point platform, headed "Call Out Zionism & Foreign Collusion", reads: "End foreign lobbies owning Congress. Stop taxpayer subsidies to Israel and others. Defend your First Amendment from Zionist censorship. Foreign policy must serve the health and longevity of Americans first." Plank eight, "Peace, Not Endless Wars", opens: "No more trillion-dollar wars abroad."

Asked by The Amarillo Pioneer in October 2024 for his top three priorities in office, his first written answer was "Ending all funding to Israel"; asked what issue had been overlooked in the race, he wrote "Zionism" and that he would "educate Americans that Zionism is racism". In the transcript of a livestream posted on his site on April 7, 2024, he says of members of Congress, "They all serve Israel." He frames the question as opposition to what he calls Zionism, which he describes as a political ideology, not Jewish identity, and in May 2024 he opposed H.R. 6090, the antisemitism bill the House had just passed, saying it would let the Education Department cut federal funding to schools that host speakers deemed antisemitic under its definition. More of what he has said about Zionism and Jews, with dates, is on the research page.

Nothing located from him addresses U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians or UNRWA. His podcast index lists dozens of broadcasts on Israel, Gaza and Zionism, among them "VOTE for Dr.SHIVA. END GAZA GENOCIDE!" on October 19, 2024; their titles and dates are on the research page. His March 2026 broadcasts on the war with Iran are there too.

Research

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. He has never held office, so there is no vote record. Most of his statements are made in video broadcasts; where only a broadcast's title and upload date could be read, that is what is recorded, and the broadcast itself is marked not watched. Our funding data shows no contributions to him from the tracked committees.

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context, not a position on what America sends)

Earlier record

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Also in this race: Morgan Gifford Dawicki (Independent), John Deaton (Republican), Ed Markey (Democrat), Joseph Tache (Other) · All Massachusetts candidates.

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