Joseph Tache

Other · U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

Tache told The Scope in June 2026: "It’s very important for anybody of conscience to oppose US funding for Israel, to oppose the distribution of US weapons to Israel." His platform would "end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately". Nothing located from him on U.S. aid to Palestinians.

Tache, a 30-year-old youth worker and organizer from Roxbury, is the Party for Socialism and Liberation's candidate for the seat held by Sen. Ed Markey; the party is a socialist party, and he reached the ballot by petition. Interviewed by The Scope on June 30, 2026, he said that "billions of our tax dollars are used every year to subsidize that oppression and that violence" and that "It’s very important for anybody of conscience to oppose US funding for Israel, to oppose the distribution of US weapons to Israel." In the same answer he called Israel "a colonial society" and "an apartheid state constructed based on racism and an attempted genocide of the Palestinian people, not just starting in 2023 but long before that, starting in 1948." Asked about AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying organization, he said: "I don’t take money from AIPAC. I think it’s disgusting for any politician to take money from AIPAC and to water down the crimes that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people." That is a statement about his campaign's money; his position on U.S. aid is the sentence before it. He also said he does not think Israel controls U.S. policy: "we should see Israel as a tool of US foreign policy."

His campaign site's fourth plank, "Fund our needs, not the war machine! Free Palestine and end the billionaires’ war drive!", is spelled out on his program page: the campaign's Emergency Act to End War and Militarism "will end all U.S. aid to Israel immediately", alongside a 90 percent cut to the military budget and the closure of overseas bases, and his 2026 answers to Progressive Massachusetts, a progressive advocacy group, repeat the sentence. He has written on the question for Liberation News, his party's publication: in August 2024 he called U.S. support for Israel "an unshakeable pillar of its imperialist foreign policy" and cited a poll that most Americans wanted the Biden administration to stop sending weapons, and in September 2024 he wrote that Israel's actions "constitute collective punishment and genocide against the people of Gaza".

Nothing located from him addresses U.S. aid to Palestinians as a distinct question; his statements are about what the United States sends the government of Israel and about the conflict itself. At a Boston rally in October 2025 he told the crowd, "I know it’s been a hard two years, hardest for all for the people in Gaza," and urged them not to feel demoralized. His earlier writing for the same outlet is on the research page.

Research

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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)

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Also in this race: Shiva Dr Ayyadurai (Independent), Morgan Gifford Dawicki (Independent), John Deaton (Republican), Ed Markey (Democrat) · All Massachusetts candidates.

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