But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Jeremy Moss
Democrat · U.S. House, Michigan District 11
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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 position located for Moss on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel, or on U.S. aid to Palestinians. His primary was fought over Israel policy, and reporting on it records no statement from him on military aid either way.
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Moss is a Michigan state senator and Senate President Pro Tempore who won the Democratic primary in Michigan’s 11th District on August 4, 2026. He is Michigan’s only Jewish state senator.
The absence here is worth stating precisely because of the campaign it sits in. His primary was contested substantially on Israel: one opponent ran on halting U.S. military aid, and another attacked him over pro-Israel donors. An initial search’s own verdict is that there are no public records of statements or legislative actions by him proposing or opposing conditions on U.S. military aid or weapons transfers. Detailed reporting on that primary fight, read in full, carries no statement from him on military aid in either direction, and records that AIPAC did not endorse him.
One item needs naming so it is not mistaken for a position. His rivals cited what an initial search calls an alleged audio recording from July 2026 in which he discussed maintaining U.S. support for Israel. No recording was located, the reporting checked does not mention one, and the claim reaches us only through his opponents. It is on the research page as an allegation and is not treated as a position of his.
What he has said is about how the conflict is described rather than about American money. On the Michigan Senate floor in April 2024 he rejected characterizing Israel as a "colonizer" state and said the overwhelming majority of Jews believe in a place of refuge in a Jewish homeland. That statement’s only offered source returns 403 and could not be read, so it is on the research page rather than the card. He has also spoken extensively about antisemitism in Michigan, including after an arson attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, which is context here rather than an answer to what the United States sends.
The money
$2K in lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
Lifetime support from the five lobbying groups we track
DMFI: $2,381.81
Support-only OpenFEC data (as of 2026-10-03). Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
Who these lobbying groups are
DMFI PAC$2,381.81Democratic Majority for Israel's PAC; calls itself the home for pro-Israel Democrats and backs Democratic candidates who support a strong U.S. alliance with the government of Israel.Direct contributions and independent expenditures supporting this candidate from the five lobbying groups we track, every cycle each has filed, through 2026. Excludes earmarked and conduit contributions.
Endorsed by DMFI PAC
DMFI PACDemocratic Majority for Israel's PAC; calls itself the home for pro-Israel Democrats and backs Democratic candidates who support a strong U.S. alliance with the government of Israel.These endorsements come from groups that back sending U.S. weapons and funding to the government of Israel.
In their words
Endorsements
DMFI PAC (2026 endorsement)
Research log
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
**An initial search’s own verdict, and it is the finding:** "There are no public records of direct policy statements or legislative actions by Jeremy Moss explicitly detailing or proposing conditions on U.S. military aid or weapons transfers to Israel." Independently supported on checking: Jewish Insider's detailed report on the primary fight over exactly this subject was read in full and contains no statement from him on military aid in either direction.
2026-07 [Current position; ALLEGATION VIA OPPONENTS, not used on the card]: An initial search reports that primary rivals cited "alleged audio" from July 2026 in which he discussed maintaining U.S. support for Israel. Three cautions, each sufficient on its own: no recording was located; the report checked does not mention any recording; and the claim reaches us only as his opponents' characterization of it. An opponent's account of an unlocated recording is not a candidate's position.
2026-07 [Current position; context]: One rival, Aisha Farooqi, campaigned on halting U.S. military aid to Israel. That is her position, recorded here only to explain what the primary was about.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located. No statement on UNRWA, Gaza humanitarian funding or the aid pipeline.
Characterization of the conflict
2024-04-29 [Current position; SOURCE DID NOT OPEN, not used on the card]: On the Michigan Senate floor he rejected characterizations of Israel as a "colonizer" state, arguing that "the overwhelming majority of Jews believe in a place of refuge in a Jewish homeland". The nearest source page an initial search offered is a report on that floor speech, which would not open for us however we tried to reach it. This is his most substantive in-scope characterization and it could not be read.
2023-10 [Months after October 7, 2023; on this page only]: He criticised "inflammatory responses... on Israel's right to exist" and emphasised Israel's right to self-defence, and separately criticised Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her commentary on the war, including unverified claims about a Gaza hospital explosion. Michigan Public's report on Democratic divisions in the state of 2023-10-26 is the nearest source page.
2024-10-07 [Current position]: He described the year since the attacks as an "absolutely hellish year" and said Jewish community members felt alienated by anti-Israel rhetoric on the left (Bridge Michigan).
2024-10-29 [Current position]: On NPR he defended Vice President Harris's handling of the conflict, saying she "held the line against these extreme voices that spout off antisemitism when discussing this Israel conflict on the far left" (source). About antisemitism in his party's politics rather than about U.S. aid.
2026-07-31 [Current position; VERIFIED]: Jewish Insider reports that AIPAC did not endorse him. On his opponent's mailers about pro-Israel donors he said: "The language on his mailers was very clear to say AIPAC-linked donors. One more dig deeper than that is just, it's Jews." And: "I went through the donors and I was like, 'Oh yeah, those people go to synagogue with me. These people are the parents of my childhood friends.'" (The first quote contains a dash in the original which is rendered here as a comma; the wording is otherwise verbatim.) A dispute about donors and about antisemitism, and not a position on weapons or funding either way.
2026-07-24 [Current position]: The Arab American News reports his opponent's campaign accusing him of dodging a debate and taking pro-Israel PAC money. An opponent's accusation, recorded as what an initial search consulted.
2026-07 [Current position; OUT OF SCOPE]: Jewish Insider records that his opponent also criticised him for supporting U.S. strikes on Iran in 2025. That is Iran policy, not a position on what the United States sends to this conflict.
2025-05 [OUT OF SCOPE by the content rule]: An initial search reports community members noting his past support for anti-BDS legislation in Michigan, via a letter to the editor. Boycott and divestment measures are named out of scope for cards; recorded here as consulted.
2026-07 [Current position]: He said he would not vote for a Michigan Democratic Party nominee to the University of Michigan Board of Regents who had praised Hezbollah and supported campus encampments, calling the nomination "unacceptable". Party-internal, and not about U.S. aid.
Safety and antisemitism
[All of this is context under the content rule and never the answer to what America sends. It is the largest part of his record and it is recorded in full here for that reason.]
2023-11 [Months after October 7, 2023]: He raised concern about incidents and disruptions affecting Jewish Michiganders travelling to national solidarity rallies.
2024-04-29 [Current position; source 403 as above]: On the Senate floor he condemned harassment of Jewish students on campuses, said "Zionist is now being weaponized as a slur", and rejected attempts by non-Jews to define antisemitism.
2024-05-10 [Current position]: He called a Republican state budget amendment penalising universities over Gaza protests "nakedly political" and abstained in protest (WEMU).
2024-06-14 [Current position]: After vandalism at an Oakland County law office he told WDET that not every anti-Israel protest is antisemitic, and that rhetoric targeting Zionists crosses into antisemitic hate speech when it attacks core Jewish identity.
2025-06 [Current position]: He backed adding antisemitism protections to Michigan's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, saying American Jews were being "gaslit" and made to answer for the Israeli government's actions (Bridge Michigan, WEMU).
2026-03-12 [Current position]: After an arson attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield he described rising local antisemitism as a "five-alarm fire".
2026-04-14 [Current position]: He sponsored Michigan Senate Resolution 105 for Holocaust Remembrance Day and warned about Holocaust denialism and rising local hate crimes (MIRS). A post about the resolution on his office's page would not open.
What came back empty or unusable
His most substantive characterization statement, the April 2024 floor speech, has no readable source page: the one report offered will not open however we try to reach it.
Two PBS NewsHour pages returned 202 and do not name him. One YouTube url carries no retrievable text. One office Facebook post would not open.
No campaign platform statement on foreign policy was located; an initial search notes he ran on a domestic platform.
Not found
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.
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