Jake Auchincloss

Democrat · U.S. House, Massachusetts District 4

In July 2026 Auchincloss announced he was “voting Yes” on an amendment to “zero out $3.3 billion in foreign military financing for Israel”. In May 2024, as Biden withheld bombs from the government of Israel, he said “there must be no daylight between Israel and the United States on security”.

Auchincloss, a Marine veteran from Newton, has represented Massachusetts’s 4th District, from Brookline and Newton south to Fall River, since 2021. He won the September 1, 2026 Democratic primary and faces Republican Thomas Stalcup and independents Steve Chasse and Matthew Cook in November. His district, he says, holds about 100,000 Jewish constituents.

Through 2024 and 2025 he backed U.S. arms for the government of Israel and opposed pausing them. When President Biden paused a shipment of heavy bombs in May 2024, he wrote on X that “there must be no daylight between Israel and the United States on security,” MassLive reported, adding: “For Israel, U.S. materiel is necessary to dismantle Hamas, a barbaric terrorist cult that won’t honor a ceasefire, and to deter attacks from other terrorist groups,” In June 2024 he said “I condemn the ICC’s seeking of arrest warrants for Israeli leadership” while opposing a Republican bill to sanction the court, and pledged: “I will continue to support Israel and its right to self-defense through my vote and voice in Washington and in international institutions.” He told Jewish Insider in July 2024 that he had “still not said that there should be a permanent cease-fire there” and that “The Israelis need to stop with expansion of settlement activity”; he attended Prime Minister Netanyahu’s address to Congress that month with a Newton rabbi as his guest. At a December 2024 town hall in Needham, asked about starvation in Gaza, he said: “It’s a tragedy when a Palestinian child dies. It’s a tragedy when an Israeli child dies.” In August 2025, as the government of Israel prepared to take Gaza City, he told GBH News: “The resulting humanitarian conditions are totally unacceptable,” and “Hamas has the culpability but Israel has the responsibility. Starvation is not acceptable.” In September 2025 he led 30 Democrats in asking Secretary Rubio to work with the Arab League to end the war and remove Hamas from Gaza.

On July 15, 2026 the House voted on Rep. Thomas Massie’s amendment to strike $3.3 billion in military financing for the government of Israel from the State Department funding bill. He posted that day: “I am voting Yes on the amendment to State Department appropriations to zero out $3.3 billion in foreign military financing for Israel.” He said the measure would stop the United States financing and selling attack aircraft, bombs, missiles and targeting systems to the Israeli military, and would not touch its air-defense systems. His reason: “With their disastrous war against Iran, their empowerment of settler violence in the West Bank, and their strategic incoherence against Islamist terrorism, both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have sacrificed that trust. Congress must act where the executives have failed.” He called the amendment “not the ideal mechanism of action”, noting its sponsor’s campaign had “featured antisemitic tropes” and that its effect on humanitarian programs was unclear, and concluded: “I have weighed these problems against the central thrust of the amendment: there must be consequences for Trump and Netanyahu.” The Foundation for Middle East Peace reproduces the statement under his name. The next day, answering a critic, he wrote: “This is not about politics. American soldiers are dead.” He told Jewish Insider a week later: “I represent a pro-Israel, anti-Netanyahu district and this is a pro-Israel, anti-Netanyahu vote,” and “foreign military financing is a form of appropriations for a war I believe to be illegal and unwise.” He said he would judge future military financing for the government of Israel year by year.

He has not called for ending U.S. military support to the government of Israel. In the same interview he said the United States should keep preserving Israel’s qualitative military edge, that he would not now back cutting support for its missile-defense systems or stopping it buying American weapons with its own money, and that the next U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding should be built around that edge and around normalization with Arab states. In June 2026 his office said “the alliance needs to move past military aid, and should instead be anchored in strengthening the Abraham Accords”. Prime Minister Netanyahu has himself proposed phasing out U.S. aid over a decade, Jewish Insider notes, and Auchincloss said Democrats cannot be expected to stand “to the right of Netanyahu” on it.

AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, had endorsed him; after the July 2026 vote it removed his fundraising link, the New York Times reported. He told Newsweek in August 2026: “I don’t take positions based on outside interests,” and “People want to support me because of my positions.” At a Needham town hall in June 2026, asked about AIPAC money, he said: “There’s tons and tons of money in politics, there is tons of lobbying in politics, but one group of people get pummeled above all others,” adding, “It really concerns me.” After the vote he defended it before more than 700 constituents at Temple Emanuel in Newton and at other synagogues. In August 2026 he signed a letter led by Senators Warren and Van Hollen urging the administration to end settler violence in the West Bank.

On antisemitism, he led a bipartisan request for a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation of campus antisemitism and said in January 2025: “Since October 7th, 2023, Jewish and Israeli students have been harassed and intimidated. Too often, university administrators rolled their eyes or shrugged their shoulders,” He has said he voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act because “It opens a constitutional can of worms.” His statements from October and November 2023 are dated on the research page.

Tracked votes: opposed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 3 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

One search (run 2026-09-04) was read as a lead list for this card, 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. His recorded votes on the bills this site tracks are not described here; they are on the card’s record, filled from the House Clerk. Where he has spoken about a vote, his words are quoted.

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: Thomas Stalcup (Republican) · All Massachusetts candidates.

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