But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Moshe Landman
Green · U.S. House, Maryland District 6
?Mixed
How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: In an April 2024 newspaper answer he says "Israel has a right to defend itself" and that over 34,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza, "most of whom were innocent victims and not Hamas terrorists", which points both ways. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-09. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
Moshe Landman, an attorney and business owner who grew up in Wheaton, is the Green Party nominee in Maryland’s 6th District. He ran for the state Senate in 2022 and sought this seat in 2024, when the Green Party’s primary ended in an exact tie. State officials certified him for the November 3 ballot in September 2026; he faces Representative April McClain Delaney and the Republican Robin Ficker. He has never held office, so there are no votes on this record.
His one located statement on the war came in April 2024, in his answers to the Baltimore Sun’s voter guide while he was seeking the Green nomination for this seat. Asked whether the United States should speak out more clearly about civilian casualties in Gaza, he wrote: “Yes, the US must support a path to peace in the Middle East. The October 7th massacre was a terrible day for Israel.” He went on that most of the Palestinians killed were “innocent victims and not Hamas terrorists” and that Israel’s actions were “inciting great animosity towards the state”, and closed: “Israel has a right to defend itself and seek a path to removing Hamas from power and other terrorist groups from leading the Palestinian people. But the Palestinian people deserve a secure and peaceful country as well.” The answer does not say what the United States should send, fund or withhold.
Ask Landman what he would vote to send, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in his own words.
In their words
“Yes, the US must support a path to peace in the Middle East. The October 7th massacre was a terrible day for Israel. However, this war on the Gaza Strip has led to the deaths of over 34,000 Palestinians, most of whom were innocent victims and not Hamas terrorists.”
“Israel has a right to defend itself and seek a path to removing Hamas from power and other terrorist groups from leading the Palestinian people. But the Palestinian people deserve a secure and peaceful country as well.”
“The United States should be a leader for peace, diplomacy, human rights, and international cooperation. I support resolving disputes through diplomacy and international institutions, respecting national self-determination and international law, reducing excessive military spending, pursuing nuclear disarmament, and strengthening the Peace Corps and humanitarian programs.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
Every page below was opened and read on 2026-10-06 unless the entry says otherwise. His campaign site was read in full, all eleven pages: home, the Green Party, the ten key values, about, Maryland, the issues, news and social media, the Green New Deal, documents and evidence, vote and support, and contact. His Ballotpedia page, which carries his Candidate Connection answers from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 and the text of his 2024 campaign site, was read in full, along with the guides and reports listed below. He has held no office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks is his, and no funding from the committees this site tracks is recorded on this record. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. Pages that carry no date of their own are recorded on the date we read them.
U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel
Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about weapons transfers, Foreign Military Financing, security assistance or any bill on those subjects appears on his campaign site, in his four Ballotpedia questionnaires, in his 2024 Baltimore Sun answers or in his 2026 League of Women Voters answers.
[Position; the page is undated and was read 2026-10-06] His issues page, under U.S. Foreign Policy: “The United States government must reduce our defense budget to half of its current size or less.” The section is otherwise about the United Nations Charter, international law and the International Criminal Court, and names no country. His home page: “America's defense spending ($920B+) is drowning us in unsustainable debt. It must be cut significantly, and the defense force reshaped to face the new global threats of terrorism and cyber-attacks.”
[Undated; read 2026-10-06] His campaign site’s Green New Deal page reproduces the national Green Party’s program and links to the party’s site. Under foreign policy it reads: “We urge our government to prohibit all arms sales to foreign nations and likewise prohibit grants to impoverished and undemocratic nations unless the money is targeted on domestic, non-military needs.” It names no country, and the arms-sales sentence does not appear on his own issues page, which otherwise carries the same foreign policy text.
[Position, 2026-10-06 read; the guide was posted for the November 3, 2026 election] His League of Women Voters answer, as printed in the Montgomery County guide (“Responses appear exactly as submitted by the candidates”): “The United States should be a leader for peace, diplomacy, human rights, and international cooperation. I support resolving disputes through diplomacy and international institutions, respecting national self-determination and international law, reducing excessive military spending, pursuing nuclear disarmament, and strengthening the Peace Corps and humanitarian programs.” It names no country.
[Position, 2025-11-25] His Ballotpedia answers list “Significantly cutting military spending.” among his platform points, with no country named.
[Position, 2024-04-25] In the same Baltimore Sun questionnaire quoted below, asked about more military assistance for Ukraine, he wrote: “The Green Party does not believe in or promote violence. We believe peace is the ultimate solution and diplomacy is the path to this goal.” and “Funding Ukraine is a clear sign to Vladimir Putin, another extremely mentally ill leader, that we are supporting a war against him.” That answer is about Ukraine, and nothing is inferred from it about the government of Israel.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located, at any date. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, humanitarian funding for Gaza and the aid pipeline appear nowhere in his material. The nearest is his 2024 question, “Who will help the Palestinians reach their potential in a safe and nonviolent state?”
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2024-04-25] The Baltimore Sun’s 2024 voter guide, responses received April 23, 2024 and published April 25, 2024, when he was seeking the Green Party nomination for this seat. Asked “Should the United States be speaking out more clearly, as Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen has suggested, about civilian casualties in Gaza?”, he wrote: “Yes, the US must support a path to peace in the Middle East. The October 7th massacre was a terrible day for Israel. However, this war on the Gaza Strip has led to the deaths of over 34,000 Palestinians, most of whom were innocent victims and not Hamas terrorists. The actions of Israel are being watched by all peoples in the Middle East and inciting great animosity towards the state. Iran has attacked Israel. Israel will continue to be the pariah state in the Middle East until it creates strong relations with its Muslim neighbors.” And: “Israel has a right to defend itself and seek a path to removing Hamas from power and other terrorist groups from leading the Palestinian people. But the Palestinian people deserve a secure and peaceful country as well. Who will help the Palestinians reach their potential in a safe and nonviolent state?”
[Position, 2024-04-29] The Montgomery Perspective, a Montgomery County political news site, asked the 2024 candidates for this seat “Should Israel implement an unconditional ceasefire in Gaza right now? If not, why not?” He is listed among the candidates who did not respond.
[Read 2026-10-06] Watermelon Ballot, a Montgomery County guide that asks candidates about the Block the Bombs Act and a House resolution on Gaza, lists him (spelled “Moshe Landsman”, Green, linked to his own campaign Facebook page) as having “not responded to our questions about the Block the Bombs bill or about HR876 Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian People of Gaza.”
Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying
Nothing located, at any date. No statement by him about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or any other organization working on this subject was found.
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located, at any date. His about page describes his upbringing in Wheaton as the son of Rabbi Reuben Landman, his schooling at the Hebrew Academy of Greater Washington, a few years of study in Israel after high school, and a degree from Yeshiva University in 2000. None of it is a statement about this subject, and no position is drawn from it.
His own account of himself, and the rest of his platform
[Undated; read 2026-10-06] His about page gives his degrees (Yeshiva University, 2000; an MBA from George Mason University, 2003; a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, 2006), his work as an attorney, mortgage broker and founder of several businesses, his 2022 state Senate race in District 39, and his 2024 run for this seat, in which “the Green Party primary election ended in an exact tie”.
[Undated; read 2026-10-06] His home page lists five priorities: the environment, health care, the military budget, the economy and agriculture. The issues page adds positions on civil rights, the debt, the Senate filibuster, health care, immigration and gun violence. The words Israel, Gaza, Palestinian, AIPAC and antisemitism appear nowhere on the site.
[Position, 2024] The 2024 campaign site text Ballotpedia carries mentions Israel twice, neither time on this subject: as a country that gets much of its drinking water from desalination, and as “a much smaller nation” with “over 13 parties”, in an argument for more parties in the United States. His 2024 Ballotpedia answers also recall winning a trip to Israel at a 1987 rally for Soviet Jewry and giving it to his sister.
The race
[Read 2026-10-06] Ballotpedia: “Incumbent April McClain Delaney (D), Robin Ficker (R), and Moshe Landman (G) are running in the general election for U.S. House Maryland District 6 on November 3, 2026.”
[Position, 2026-09-05] Maryland Matters reports that state election officials certified him that week, with the Green nominees Sam Husseini in the 4th District and Nancy Wallace in the 8th.
[Position, 2026-05-18] The Banner’s 2026 voter guide for this district records: “Candidate did not respond to The Banner’s voter guide questionnaire.” Its five questions are on the budget, immigration, stock trading, standing up to authority and what a candidate would bring to Congress.
[Read 2026-10-06] His iVoterGuide profile for 2026 marks every question “Did not answer”, including one on whether the United States’ relationship with Israel is important. A blank form is a fact about the guide’s coverage, not about him, and nothing is drawn from it.
Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them
His Facebook pages, https://www.facebook.com/MosheYLandman/ and https://www.facebook.com/MosheLandman , and the other accounts Ballotpedia lists for him (X, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube). Not read.
https://www.localcandidates.org/politicians/moshe-landman , a host that does not render for us and that this project does not use.
Not on the card, and why
The casualty figure in his 2024 answer: the card front and deep dive carry his characterization without the number; the full answer is above.
The Green Party platform sentence on arms sales: it names no country and is the party’s text reproduced on his site, so it is in the deep dive as exactly that and not on the front.
His 2024 answer on military aid to Ukraine: a different country, and nothing is inferred from it.
His domestic platform (environment, health care, the economy, agriculture, currency, the filibuster, immigration, guns) and the two 2024 mentions of Israel on water and political parties: out of scope.
The other candidates’ answers in the 2024 Montgomery Perspective piece and in Watermelon Ballot: other people’s records belong on their own cards.
Sources read for this card (address; opened or could not open; date read)
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/lwvmaryland/pages/15592/attachments/original/1790786953/Montgomery_County_2026_General_VG_rev.pdf?1790786953 (opened; 2026-10-06; the guide to the November 3, 2026 general election)
https://marylandmatters.org/2026/09/05/the-ballot-takes-shape-as-state-officials-certify-a-handful-of-third-party-hopefuls-for-nov-3/ (opened; 2026-10-06; published 2026-09-05)
http://www.isjl.org/virginia-northern-virginia.html (not opened; a history of Jewish communities in Northern Virginia, not about this subject)
This is a record of what was checked on 2026-10-06, not a claim that no other statement exists.
But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and
funding for the government of Israel. Every claim on this page goes through at least two verification steps.
Open Find Your Candidates for votes, funding and contact details.