Amy Klobuchar

Democrat · Governor, Minnesota

Klobuchar, the senator running for governor, voted in 2025 to block specific arms sales to Israel for the first time: “I have supported Israel’s right to defend itself, I always will. But they aren’t changing.” Her earlier record backed aid without conditions and opposed the boycott movement.

Klobuchar is the Democratic nominee for governor of Minnesota; her federal record as a U.S. senator carries this card. Her recorded Senate votes appear as badges: Yes on the February 2024 package that included Israel aid, No on the earlier resolutions to block specific arms sales, and Yes on several of the 2025 blocking resolutions, the shift the card fronts.

Jewish Insider’s August 2025 report, verified: she voted for the first time for resolutions blocking U.S. arms sales, "to send a message to the Israeli government of disapproval" over the humanitarian situation, after a direct meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu produced no change: "I have supported Israel’s right to defend itself, I always will. But they aren’t changing." That reverses two decades of the opposite position: at the 2018 AIPAC conference she backed full security-assistance funding, in 2019 she rejected conditioning aid at the J Street conference, she voted for the 2019 act protecting state anti-boycott laws, and her site long said the boycott movement undermines a two-state solution.

In March 2024 she signed the 19-senator letter urging a framework for U.S. recognition of a nonmilitarized Palestinian state, per the letter release, and in July 2025 she decried mass starvation in Gaza on the Senate floor. Her November 2023 humanitarian-pause call is on the research page.

On antisemitism her record is long and verified: the 2021 Senate resolution she co-sponsored, Nonprofit Security Grant funding pushes, and a June 2026 address to Minnesota’s Jewish Community Relations Council on rising antisemitism, per TC Jewfolk.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 10 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: Lisa Demuth (Republican), Brad Kohler (Independent) · All Minnesota candidates.

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