But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Douglas Campbell
Green · Governor, Michigan
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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.
No recorded votes on the bills we track. We found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Campbell has not spoken publicly on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. No statement was found in source-checked research across 8 sources.
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Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
What was looked for, and what came back
**U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel:** Material returned; set out in full below.
**Characterization of the conflict:** Material returned; set out in full below.
**Rhetoric and lobbying:** Material returned; set out in full below.
**Safety and antisemitism:** There is no public record of Douglas Campbell making personal statements, taking public positions, or releasing policy platforms regarding domestic safety measures or antisemitism.
What an initial search did return, on the other questions
**Read the verification note at the foot of this page before relying on anything in this section.** Two of the items reproduced here could not be confirmed against any source, and a third is contradicted by the source an initial search itself cited.
The card's claim is about what the United States sends, and that question came back empty. These questions did return material. It is reproduced word for word so nothing found is lost, and it is context rather than a position on U.S. weapons or money. Em dashes are rendered as hyphens to satisfy house style; no wording is changed.
### U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel * **April 2, 2025:** Campbell shared commentary regarding a federal lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (*Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden*), stating that U.S. financial and military support for Israel "does not abide by international law" and violates orders of the International Court of Justice. He expressed support for holding American officials accountable through international institutions such as the International Criminal Court. * **March 20, 2025:** In a public social media statement, Campbell criticized continued U.S. foreign aid and military backing for Israel, writing that American leaders continue to fund violence while imposing sanctions elsewhere, and arguing that "U.S. leaders still fund this violence... It's not about peace. It's about power."
### Characterization of the conflict * **October 18, 2024:** While protesting outside the WXYZ-TV studios in Southfield, Michigan alongside other Green Party candidates, Campbell participated in a demonstration highlighting third-party exclusion, where the Green Party candidates jointly raised attention to "the genocide in Gaza" and called for an end to the conflict in Palestine. * **March 20, 2025:** Campbell characterized Israeli policy in Palestinian territories as "apartheid," rejecting claims that the conflict represents a "holy war" and stating that such framing is used "to hide what's happening in Palestine." In the same statement, he stated he was "Standing with Iran and Palestine against all this injustice."
### Rhetoric and lobbying * **October 18, 2024:** Speaking at a Green Party protest in Southfield, Michigan, Campbell criticized the influence of corporate and special interests over the two major political parties, stating, "We have had a corporate takeover of just about every aspect of American life, including the two Titanic parties... Corporate America owns them," and argued that major parties suppress debate on foreign policy issues. * **March 20, 2025:** Campbell questioned the role of Israel in influencing United States foreign policy, asking publicly, "Why is Israel driving America's war policy?" and asserting that U.S. involvement contradicts "America First" political commitments.
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No position located on U.S. weapons, arms sales or military funding for the government of Israel.
No position located on U.S. aid to Palestinians, UNRWA or Gaza humanitarian funding.
This is a record of what was checked on 2026-08-11, not a claim that no statement exists anywhere.
Verification, 2026-08-12
This card was rewritten as an absence card after a check of every source the earlier version rested on. What the check found, item by item:
**The March 20 and April 2, 2025 statements: NOT CONFIRMED, and not disproved either.** An initial search named "his own social accounts" and captured no post url for either one. The only accounts listed for him on his Ballotpedia profile are a personal Facebook page and a LinkedIn profile. The Facebook page returns two words of readable content to a open, which is a login wall rather than a page, so it can establish neither presence nor absence. The Ballotpedia profile itself was read in full, 2,056 words, and contains no mention of Israel, Gaza or Palestine.
**The October 18, 2024 protest, described above as jointly raising attention to "the genocide in Gaza": CONTRADICTED BY THE CITED SOURCE.** The Green Party of Michigan release was read in full, about 1,200 words. It describes a protest about broadcast access for third-party candidates, quotes him on media consolidation, and does not mention Gaza, Israel or foreign policy anywhere. The same event, with the same framing added, was attached by the same first search to another candidate, where a separate check on 2026-08-11 reached the same conclusion.
**A mis-attached source page.** For the April 2025 item an initial search attached an Al Jazeera Facebook post about the International Criminal Court. That is a news organisation's post about the lawsuit, not evidence of anything he said. A real Green Party of the United States action on the same subject exists, which is a plausible route for a party position to be written up as a personal one.
**Why this candidate was especially exposed to it.** Campbell ran for the U.S. House in Michigan's 11th District against Rep. Haley Stevens, and an initial search pulled Wikipedia pages for Haley Stevens and Gary Peters into his source set. Searching a challenger's name surfaces the incumbent's record, and that retrieval path is how a different candidate with this surname ended up carrying Rep. Stevens's words in our earlier research.
Nothing above is deleted. It is recorded with what the check found, so a reader who locates the posts can pick it up from here.
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