Rashida Tlaib

Democrat · U.S. House, Michigan District 12

Her campaign page says Tlaib has introduced resolutions to block weapons sales to the government of Israel. She led colleagues demanding the restoration of U.S. funding to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and called an arms embargo the only way to end what she calls a genocide.

Tlaib represents Michigan's 12th District, which takes in Dearborn and part of Detroit, and she is the only Palestinian American in Congress.

Her own campaign tells voters where she stands in plain words: "Rashida has introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons sales to Israel's government." The same page says she leads the fight "to ensure that U.S. tax dollars are not used to fund the genocidal Israeli military's human rights abuses". In November 2025 she introduced H.Res. 876, whose operative text would make it U.S. policy to stop sending weapons where they may be used in genocide: "ceasing the transfer of arms and other equipment or items to the State of Israel or third states where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide". Twenty other members put their names to it.

On aid she pushes the other way, for more of it. In June 2025 she led nineteen colleagues in a letter opposing the plan to militarize food distribution in Gaza; the letter demands "an immediate end to the blockade, an immediate resumption of unfettered humanitarian aid entry into Gaza, the restoration of U.S. funding to UNRWA, and an immediate and lasting ceasefire." Those are the letter's words, signed by twenty members. She has also reintroduced her resolution on Palestinian refugees, which calls on Congress to reinstate U.S. support for the same agency.

Her votes run one way and they are worth naming rather than counting, because not all of them are the same kind of act. She voted against the April 2024 package, of which $4 billion was for the Iron Dome and David's Sling interceptor systems and $1.2 billion for Iron Beam, all of them systems for shooting things down; by that date the Gaza health ministry had reported 34,049 people killed, 14,685 of them children. She voted against the bill written four weeks later to force delivery of the 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs the administration had paused, at a reported 35,272 killed. In July 2025 she was one of six members who voted to strike $500 million for Israeli Cooperative Programs, which is money for the Iron Dome, short-range ballistic missile defense and Arrow systems rather than for munitions, at a reported 58,667 killed. In July 2026 she voted for the amendment that would have barred the year's funds from being used for Israel and cut $3.3 billion from Foreign Military Financing, at a reported 73,246 killed, and wrote afterwards: "Proud of my colleagues who voted to stop funding Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people." She takes no money from the tracked pro-Israel committees, and her criticism of the largest of them is about campaign spending rather than about transfers. The rest is on her research page.

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

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U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

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Also in this race: James D. Hooper (Republican), Brenda K. Sanders (Green), Marc Joseph Sosnowski (Other), Gary Walkowicz (Other) · All Michigan candidates.

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