But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Clyde Shabazz
Green · U.S. House, Michigan District 6
✓Opposes
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.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: In his own words he calls what is happening in Gaza a genocide and condemns spending on weapons for genocide, with nothing saying the weapons should keep flowing. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
At an October 2024 protest Shabazz said Americans want to discuss "the genocide in Gaza", and criticized rivals competing over who would "spend more on war abroad and weapons for genocide". He names no recipient for those weapons.
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Shabazz is the Green Party candidate in Michigan’s 6th District, nominated at the party’s convention on April 25, 2026. He has held no federal office.
What he has said on the record comes from one Green Party report of a protest on October 18, 2024. He said: "This has to stop. The American people are not being heard on the issues. They’d like to talk about things like the genocide in Gaza, what’s going on in Palestine and ending that." He also criticized the major-party candidates for competing over "who is going to spend more on war abroad and weapons for genocide instead of investing in education; instead of giving reparations to descendants of slaves; instead of giving universal basic income to our most vulnerable".
That is a criticism of U.S. military spending in general. He does not name a recipient, and this card does not name one for him. Read against his description of Gaza as a genocide, a reader can draw an inference, but the inference is theirs and not a position he has stated.
An initial search also reports a July 2026 statement opposing what he called the Israeli apartheid government and its genocide in Palestine. no source for it opened: the only source pages offered are two Facebook posts that will not open. If it can be sourced it would be his most direct statement on the record, and it is the thing most worth asking him about.
In their words
“The American people are not being heard on the issues. They'd like to talk about things like the genocide in Gaza, what's going on in Palestine and ending that.”
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
2024-10-18 [Current position; VERIFIED]: At a protest reported by the Green Party he criticized the major-party candidates: they are "fighting each other to say who is going to spend more on war abroad and weapons for genocide instead of investing in education; instead of giving reparations to descendants of slaves; instead of giving universal basic income to our most vulnerable; instead of providing Medicare for All". Read on the page.
⚠ **NO RECIPIENT IS NAMED.** He says "war abroad" and "weapons for genocide", not U.S. weapons to the government of Israel. Elsewhere he calls Gaza a genocide, which makes the inference available, but the card reports what he said rather than completing it for him. This is the same discipline the blanket-position rule requires. ⚠ **AN INITIAL SEARCH OVERSTATED THIS ITEM TWICE.** It reported that he called "for an end to U.S. funding for Israel" and demanded "a two-thirds cut to the U.S. defense budget". The page was read in full and contains neither: no "two-thirds", no "defense budget", no "funding for Israel", no "aid to Israel". Both claims are excluded.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
2024-10-18 [Current position; VERIFIED]: "This has to stop. The American people are not being heard on the issues. They'd like to talk about things like the genocide in Gaza, what's going on in Palestine and ending that," per the same report.
2026-07-28 [Current position; SOURCE DID NOT OPEN]: An initial search reports that after the party's state convention he reaffirmed opposition to what he described as the "Israeli apartheid government and its genocide in Palestine". The only candidate source pages it offered are two Michigan Greens Facebook posts which would not open. Not used on the card.
Rhetoric and lobbying
2024-10-18 [Current position; VERIFIED]: At the same protest he said the television stations were "working for the Republican and the Democratic party because all of the PAC money, all of the individual campaign donations, they go to those two parties". A criticism of party finance and media access, not of pro-Israel lobbying, and not a funding position.
2026-07-28 [Current position; SOURCE DID NOT OPEN]: An initial search reports him aligning with Green Party platform criticism of the political establishment's support for Israeli government policy. Same missing source page.
Safety and antisemitism
Nothing located. An initial search’s own verdict: no recorded statements, policy positions or campaign actions specifically addressing safety or antisemitism.
A questionnaire that is not evidence, and why it was removed from the card summary
An iVoterGuide page for this race asks "Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?" and records "Did not answer". An earlier version of this card ended on that and called it "the one time he was asked directly and on the record in this cycle".
That overstated it, and it was struck on review. He did not answer any of the 36 items on that page. iVoterGuide publishes a page for every candidate in a race whether or not the candidate engages with it, so a form with no answers on it is a fact about the guide's coverage rather than a choice he made about Israel. An earlier-cycle questionnaire among the sources is the same.
The test we apply: a questionnaire answer is evidence when the candidate used the range elsewhere on the same form, so that one answer stands against others they were willing to give. Zero of 36 is not that.
What the protest actually was
The event on 2024-10-18 was **not his**. It was staged by Douglas P. Marsh, the Green Party of Michigan candidate for U.S. Senate, outside WXYZ ABC Channel 7 studios in Southfield, "demanding equal time during the station's broadcast of a debate between duopoly candidates". Shabazz was one of several Green Party candidates who came to support him and spoke there. His words are his own; the occasion was about broadcast access.
⚠ This is the same source and the same defect this project already recorded on the Michigan Senate record, where an initial search described the protest as a condemnation of foreign policy over Gaza and the party's own release showed it was about equal broadcast time. It recurred here on a different candidate from the same page.
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