Jim Bronke
Bronke told a candidate questionnaire: "We send $5 billion cash per year to Israel and $5 billion worth of weapons and they do not have our Constitution. Phase this out." He also wrote that "Our relationship with Israel is a liability and Israel is not an ally".
Bronke is the Green Party candidate in Michigan’s 5th District, a retired engineer from Cass County who has run for the same seat before.
His position is set out at length in the iVoterGuide questionnaire for this race. On U.S. foreign policy he wrote: "We send $5 billion cash per year to Israel and $5 billion worth of weapons and they do not have our Constitution. Phase this out." That is a direct call to end U.S. cash and weapons to the Israeli government. The dollar figures are his own assertion, not ours.
Asked whether the United States’ relationship with Israel is important, he answered: "Because we aid Israel we perpetuate the problem there. Independent journalists who report on what’s going on detail the continued aggression of Israel against its neighbors including stealing land home and businesses. Our relationship with Israel is a liability and Israel is not an ally. We are part of the problem not the solution."
The gather also reports a September 2024 questionnaire in which he said foreign aid should be separated from the general federal budget and voted on separately, and that he would resist budgets containing unnecessary foreign aid. No source for that one resolved, so it is on the research page rather than the card.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- 2026 [Position band; card-leading; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: On the iVoterGuide questionnaire for this race, answering on foreign policy: "We invaded Iraq under bogus pretenses perpetrated by our government and our news media. We send $5 billion cash per year to Israel and $5 billion worth of weapons and they do not have our Constitution. Phase this out." Read on the page this session.
⚠ **THE GATHER MISSED THIS ANSWER ENTIRELY.** It is the most specific in-scope statement on the record, it names both cash and weapons, and it says what he would do about them. The card leads on it. His dollar figures are his own claim and are presented as such, not adopted as fact.
- 2026 [Position band; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: Same questionnaire, asked whether the U.S. relationship with Israel is important: "Because we aid Israel we perpetuate the problem there. Independent journalists who report on what's going on detail the continued aggression of Israel against its neighbors including stealing land home and businesses. Our relationship with Israel is a liability and Israel is not an ally. We are part of the problem not the solution."
⚠ **THE GATHER DATED THESE ANSWERS TO AN "OCTOBER 2024 CANDIDATE SURVEY".** The url it supplied is the 2026 election questionnaire and that is where the text sits. Same year error as mi10-saliba.
- 2024-09 [Position band; SOURCE UNRESOLVED]: The gather reports a Vote411 or MLive questionnaire in which he said foreign aid should be separated from the general federal budget and voted on independently, and that he would resist approving budgets containing unnecessary foreign aid. It named the outlet in prose and supplied no url, and none of the resolved sources is Vote411 or MLive.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located. No statement on UNRWA, Gaza humanitarian funding or the aid pipeline. His position is about what the United States sends to the Israeli government.
Characterization of the conflict
- 2026 [Position band; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: The "continued aggression of Israel against its neighbors including stealing land home and businesses" passage above, which he attributes to independent journalists he reads.
- 2026 [Position band; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: Also on the same form, on religious coexistence: "Means people of different religions have to get along by respecting property and voting rights. A part of our Constitution that Israel does not share."
- 2024-09 [Position band; SOURCE UNRESOLVED]: The gather reports him faulting congressional leadership, saying "it's clear that my own representative does not research much of anything let alone... the Middle East". Same missing Vote411 or MLive carrier.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2026 [Position band; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: "Our relationship with Israel is a liability and Israel is not an ally", quoted above, is his framing of the alliance itself.
- No statement located on domestic pro-Israel lobbying groups or political action committees.
Safety and antisemitism
- Nothing located. No statement on antisemitism or Jewish community safety.
Sources consulted and resolved
- The iVoterGuide questionnaire, which carries everything on this card.
- His Green Party candidate page, fetched this session: it contains no mention of Israel, Gaza, Palestine or foreign aid.
- His Ballotpedia page.
- A Kalamazoo County candidate list and the Wikipedia page for Michigan's 2026 House elections, neither naming his position.
Consulted and unreachable
- A localcandidates.org page for him returned 429, as that host has on other records in this tranche.
What came back empty or unusable
- The September 2024 Vote411 or MLive material has no url anywhere in the gathered sources and could not be recovered.
Also in this race: Ronald A. Muszynski (Libertarian), Sharon Marie Renier (Other), Christian Vukasovich (Democrat), Tim Walberg (Republican) · All Michigan candidates.
See the full record →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 the interactive card for votes, funding and contact details.