Clyde Shabazz
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.
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.
The gather also reports a July 2026 statement opposing what he called the Israeli apartheid government and its genocide in Palestine. No source for it resolved: the only carriers offered are two Facebook posts that return 400. 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.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- 2024-10-18 [Position band; card-leading; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: 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 this session.
⚠ **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. ⚠ **THE GATHER 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 this session 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 [Position band; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: "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 [Position band; SOURCE UNRESOLVED]: The gather 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 carriers it offered are two Michigan Greens Facebook posts which returned 400. Not used on the card.
Rhetoric and lobbying
- 2024-10-18 [Position band; VERIFIED THIS SESSION]: 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 [Position band; SOURCE UNRESOLVED]: The gather reports him aligning with Green Party platform criticism of the political establishment's support for Israeli government policy. Same missing carrier.
Safety and antisemitism
- Nothing located. The gather'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 came off the card
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 a flag 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 reusable test, recorded in full on mi10-kirby: 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 the gather 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.
Sources consulted and resolved
- The Green Party report of the protest, which the gather lists four times and which carries everything verified here.
- His Ballotpedia page and the 2026 MI-06 election page.
- Two iVoterGuide questionnaires, read in full and discounted for the reason above.
- The Wikipedia page for Michigan's 2026 House elections, which does not name his position.
Consulted and unusable
- Two Michigan Greens Facebook posts returned 400. Everything the gather reported from July 2026 rests on them.
Also in this race: Debbie Dingell (Democrat), Michael Mickevicius (Other), Linda Rayburn (Other), Heather Smiley (Republican), Timothy A. Teagan (Libertarian) · 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.