Shelby Campbell

Independent · U.S. House, MI-13

Campbell posted on Instagram that she is Jewish and supports Israel while condemning "genocide and war". Her reported statements on U.S. military aid could not be sourced: every link the gather offered errors. See the research notes.

Campbell is an independent candidate in Michigan’s 13th District, a former Stellantis assembly line worker and labour advocate. Her Ballotpedia page records no previous federal office.

One statement of hers is confirmed. On her own Instagram account, `shelby4congress`, she posted: "I guess I’m Jewish and support Israel lol. Fuck genocide and war. Yt supremacist over seas." A volunteer read the post on that account and confirmed it on August 11, 2026; it showed as about ten weeks old, so roughly the start of June 2026. "Yt" is internet shorthand for white. The account returns a normal page but serves none of its captions to a fetch, so the words rest on that reading rather than on ours.

It holds two things together, and it is worth reading as she wrote it rather than resolving the tension for her: she identifies as Jewish and says she supports Israel, and in the same breath she condemns the war in the strongest words available to her. What it is not is a position on what the United States sends. It names no aid, no weapons and no dollar figure.

The positions on aid that the gather reports still have no source. It describes a May 2026 campaign statement saying the United States has "been writing blank checks to Israel to commit genocide in Gaza", a March 2026 confrontation in which she shouted "because he takes money from Israel" at the incumbent, and calls to redirect that money to teachers, housing and transit in her district. Every carrier it offered for them is a Facebook url that errors, and her own campaign site was read in full and contains no occurrence of the word Israel.

So she has said a great deal and almost none of it is citable. You are better placed to change that than we are. Ask Campbell directly, or at a candidate forum, and send us the reply: it goes on this page in her own words, which is worth more than anything we could write about her.

Research

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Reading notes, because this post is easy to mishandle in three different ways. First, "Yt" is internet shorthand for white, so the last clause characterizes Israel or its conduct as white supremacism overseas. Second, the post is not self-contradictory in a way that lets either half be dropped: she asserts both her support for Israel and her condemnation of the war, and a card quoting only one half would misrepresent her. Third, it says nothing about U.S. aid, weapons or funding, so it does not resolve the unsourced aid claims above. ⚠ **THE ACCOUNT IS CITABLE, THE POST IS NOT.** `instagram.com/shelby4congress/` returns 200 and its HTML was searched: the only occurrences of "israel" are in Instagram's own currency table ("Israeli New Shekel"), and "Jewish", "genocide" and "supremacist" appear nowhere. Instagram serves captions to a browser and not to a fetch. So the card links the account and the wording rests on a human reading. A post permalink would not change that.

⚠ AN ITEM ON THIS RECORD THAT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE

That sentence is **Rep. Haley Stevens**, not Shelby Campbell, and the outlet is **CBS News**, not FOX 2 Detroit. It is the closing line of a CBS News video interview conducted by Ed O'Keefe ahead of the Michigan 2026 primary, and that page was in Campbell's gathered sources, which is presumably how the attribution slipped. The page serves a full transcript in its embedded data even though it yields only 313 characters of visible text, and the speaker is unmistakable: she refers to her own congressional district, to having voted for continuing military aid to Israel, to being attacked by name by Netanyahu, and to an opponent named Abdul who ran for U.S. Senate and has a podcast. **This material is in scope for `mi-sen-stevens`, in the Senate tranche, and is not written up here.** What it carries for her: "I want a two-state solution. I want long-term peace. I've called out Netanyahu"; that humanitarian aid "was in you know a bill I just voted for"; "I'm not moving into isolationism"; and an answer to being asked directly why continuing to support Israel's military is important. Flagged for whoever revisits that record.

Rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism

Sources consulted and resolved

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Also in this race: Simone R. Coleman (Other), Chris Dardzinski (Other), Donavan McKinney (Democrat), Maurice Morton (Independent), T.P. Nykoriak (Republican) · All Michigan candidates.

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