Scott Colom
Asked what Colom's position was on ending the U.S. alliance with Israel, his campaign answered that he supports "a two-state solution in the Middle East" and left the question there. Nothing from him on U.S. weapons or money for that government, or on aid to Palestinians.
Colom is a district attorney and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi. He has not held federal office, so there are no votes on this card.
He has been asked the question once, in August 2026, and the answer came from his campaign rather than from him. Magnolia Tribune put three questions to him: whether he identified with the newer or the older wing of his party, whether abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement was wrong, and what his position was on ending the U.S. alliance with Israel. His campaign manager replied with a list: "Scott opposes abolishing ICE, and supports securing our border, enforcing the law, cutting taxes for cops and teachers, and a two-state solution in the Middle East — period." That answers the first two questions and does not answer the third. It is the only thing on this record that touches the subject, and reading more into it than it says would be doing the campaign's work for it.
His campaign site is otherwise entirely domestic: lowering costs, saving rural hospitals, bringing jobs home, gun rights, and an anti-corruption argument against the incumbent. No foreign-policy page, no statement, no questionnaire answer.
One thing is worth correcting rather than leaving to circulate. A line about a Mississippi Senate candidate calling himself the only one not beholden to the pro-Israel lobby has been widely repeated. It was said at the Neshoba County Fair in June 2026 by the independent candidate in this race, not by Colom, whose remarks at the same event were about corruption, tariffs and taxes. Separately, a donation from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political committee reported in October 2025 went to the incumbent, not to him.
If you want his own answer on what the United States sends, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Colom directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, 2026-08-12] Magnolia Tribune asked him directly what his position was on ending the U.S. alliance with Israel, among other questions prompted by a Democratic Senate primary in Michigan. His campaign manager's reply, verified verbatim: "Scott opposes abolishing ICE, and supports securing our border, enforcing the law, cutting taxes for cops and teachers, and a two-state solution in the Middle East — period." The alliance question is not addressed in it. The em dash is the statement's own. Tippah News carried the same statement the following day, quoting it identically, and an Enterprise-Journal report covered the same exchange.
⚠ **What this does and does not establish.** A spokesperson's list is not the candidate speaking, and a list that omits the question it was asked is not an answer to it. The gather round read this exchange as Colom declining to support ending the alliance or restricting U.S. support. That is an inference from silence and it is not printed here.
- Nothing else located. His campaign site was searched on 2026-07-24 for content on this subject and returned none.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2026-08-12] Support for a two-state solution, in the campaign statement above, stated by his campaign manager rather than by him.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, 2026-06-24] Wrong-person correction, kept on the record because the misattribution is in circulation: at the Neshoba County Fair it was the independent candidate in this race, not Colom, who called himself the only candidate not "beholden to the pro-Israel lobby" (Mississippi Today, read 2026-08-17). Colom's own remarks at the fair, as reported there, were about corruption, tariffs and taxes.
- [Context, October 2025] A reported donation from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's political committee went to the incumbent senator, not to Colom. Recorded so the two are not confused.
- No money from any tracked committee appears on his own record.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2026-01-11] After an arson attack damaged the Beth Israel Congregation synagogue in Jackson, a statement attributed to his campaign account condemned it, saying an attack on a religious institution is an attack on Mississippians' safety and freedom and that antisemitism must be opposed in any form. The only address for it is a campaign social-media post that returns an error, so the words are described here rather than quoted, and no quote entry is created.
Race and status context
- Democratic nominee, having won the March 2026 primary with about 73 per cent (NBC News), facing the incumbent and an independent, per Ballotpedia's race page. His fundraising is covered by the Commercial Dispatch. His tracked vote cells are all not-in-office.
Also in this race: Ty Pinkins (Independent), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Republican) · All Mississippi candidates.
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