Dan Koh

Democrat · U.S. House, Massachusetts District 6

Nothing located has Koh saying what the U.S. should send the government of Israel. At a May 2026 forum he called for humanitarian aid to Gaza and said "it will be a very happy day in the Middle East when Bibi Netanyahu is no longer in power."

Koh is the Democratic nominee for Massachusetts' 6th District, the North Shore and Merrimack Valley seat Rep. Seth Moulton left to run for the Senate. He was chief of staff to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and then a deputy assistant to President Biden, and he won the September 1, 2026 primary over four rivals. He faces Republican Micah Jones in November.

Nothing located has him saying what U.S. weapons or military funding should go to the government of Israel. His campaign platform does not mention Israel, Gaza, Palestinians or foreign policy, and neither do his Ballotpedia survey answers or his campaign's press page. What he has said came at a Democratic candidates' forum in Swampscott on May 7, 2026. The Marblehead Current reported that he said Israel "certainly" has a right to defend itself but argued the conflict ultimately requires "a two-state solution" and renewed diplomacy, that he called for humanitarian aid to Gaza, and that he described the issue as "very personal" as an Arab American and Lebanese American with family in the region. He said "it will be a very happy day in the Middle East when Bibi Netanyahu is no longer in power." North of Boston Media Group's account of the same forum has him saying U.S. support for the Israeli government's military campaigns in the Middle East is a "personal issue" for him as a Lebanese-American and pointing to the bombing campaign in Beirut: "I’ve been talking to my family members there who wake up every day wondering if it would be their last," he said. "It’s horrifying … the severity and loss of civilian life." Neither report has him saying what the United States should send.

On campaign money, he has pledged to refuse corporate PAC donations. Asked by the Harvard Crimson in December 2025 about AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel lobbying organization in the United States, which also raises and directs money to candidates, he did not rule out accepting its funding and said he had not received its endorsement: "That process I have not pursued." A position on campaign money is not a position on U.S. weapons or funding, and this card does not read it as one.

At the forum he also warned that criticism of the Israeli government should not fuel antisemitism: "We need to stand with our Jewish American neighbors. We need to stand with our Arab American neighbors." Earlier, in April 2024, as deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, he was quoted by the Associated Press defending the administration's outreach to Muslim and Arab American leaders over the war, saying it wanted to be as accessible as possible and respected that some people did not want to engage.

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Also in this race: Micah Jones (Republican) · All Massachusetts candidates.

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