Ashley Bell
Bell's campaign platform says it in four words and a reason: "Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it."
Bell is the Democratic candidate for North Carolina's 10th District.
Her position is on her own campaign issues page, stated as a policy plank rather than in an interview: "Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it." It sits in a numbered list of platform commitments alongside her domestic positions.
She also solicits donations through an ActBlue page whose title says she rejects AIPAC, and the research turns up endorsements from groups campaigning for an arms embargo, including a voting group founded by former Biden administration appointee Tariq Habash.
She has no federal voting record.
Beyond the platform plank, no separate statement was located from her on U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians, on which specific transfers she would halt, or on Palestinian statehood in her own words.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, read 2026-08-12] Her campaign issues page, opened and confirmed word for word: "Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it." A live platform page with no publication date, so it is read at the date of reading. This is the whole of the plank; it names no specific bill, transfer or dollar figure.
- [Position, undated] The research turns up endorsements from groups campaigning for an arms embargo, including a "Stop arming Israel" voting group founded by former Biden administration appointee Tariq Habash. An endorsement is a third party's decision about her, not a statement by her, and nothing about her position is inferred from it. Not opened.
- She has no federal voting record.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- No statement located in her own words. The platform plank is about ending U.S. funding for Israel's military operations and does not address U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
- The research turns up she supports Palestinian statehood and recognition, but attributes it partly to a source that could not be read (below), so it is recorded here rather than on the card.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, read 2026-08-12] "Israel is committing genocide against Palestine" (confirmed verbatim on her own site, above). This is her characterization in the same sentence as her funding position, which is why the card carries both together rather than separating them.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, undated] Her ActBlue donation page carries a title stating that she rejects AIPAC. Recorded from the url rather than from a rendered page, which is why it is described rather than quoted. A campaign-funding position, kept separate from her position on what the United States sends.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Nothing located.
⚠ A source that could not be read, and the standing rule that applies
- Her localcandidates.org positions page was returned by the research. It could not be rendered: the URL serves a Vercel security checkpoint requiring JavaScript, not the page. Under the standing rule adopted after va5-register in this batch of research, a localcandidates.org citation is suspect until the page is rendered and the position confirmed under the subject's own heading, because that site shows other candidates' positions in a sidebar on a candidate's page. It is not rendered, so nothing is taken from it. Her own campaign site carries the position independently, which is what the card uses.
Consulted
- Ballotpedia; her about page; branch.vote. ⚠ A Wikipedia article for an Ashley Bell who is a Georgia politician was also returned; different person, nothing used from it.
Also in this race: Pat Harrigan (Republican) · All North Carolina candidates.
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