Jim Jordan

Republican · U.S. House, Ohio District 4

Asked in March 2025 about further ways Congress could support the government of Israel, including future aid packages, Jordan said, "When they need help, we should be helping Israel because there’s this special bond that exists between the Jewish people and Americans, and Israel and the United States."

Jordan has represented Ohio's 4th district since 2007 and chairs the House Judiciary Committee. In February 2025 he led a delegation of House Republicans to Israel, his first visit there since before the pandemic, and the month after it he told Jewish Insider that Israel stands "in a category all by themselves" among U.S. allies. The same report says he has voted consistently in favor of U.S. aid to Israel while remaining a skeptic of aid to Ukraine.

In that interview he also said it is obvious that a two-state solution should be a thing of the past. "That’s just not going to fly," he said, arguing that each state would have to want to work with the other and that the stated goal of the Palestinians is to destroy Israel. On the future of Gaza he said the United States should let the government of Israel take the lead, and that "you cannot allow this terrorist organization to run that area".

As chairman he has spent 2026 on a different question about American money. In May his committee told the Jewish News Syndicate that it had traced federal grants, routed through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department, to nonprofit groups he says have worked to undermine the government of Israel. In July he and Ways and Means chairman Jason Smith wrote to the New Israel Fund, a U.S. charity that makes grants to Israeli civil society organizations, opening an investigation into whether its funding of groups active in Israel's 2019 elections broke the terms of its tax exemption. Of those charities he said, "I think it’s driven to alter outcomes and to undermine the guy who was elected as prime minister, Prime Minister Netanyahu."

In April 2026 a reporter for the news outlet Zeteo asked him about Americans killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Zeteo's description of the clip it published says he answered that he is totally in support of helping Israel; the clip itself has not been watched here, so the wording is not confirmed. His own House newsroom and his campaign site raise the subject nowhere. The rest of the record, including what he said at a Republican luncheon in Mansfield in June 2025 and his committee's work on campus antisemitism, is on his research page.

Tracked votes: backed sending U.S. weapons or funding to the government of Israel in 6 of 6 recorded votes.

Research

Jim Jordan has represented Ohio's 4th district since 2007 and has chaired the House Judiciary Committee since 2023. Every page cited below was opened and read on 2026-09-07 unless marked otherwise. His own House newsroom at jordan.house.gov was paged through in full, back to 2020; his campaign site at jimjordanforcongress.com was read, home, newsroom and biography pages. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07). This card replaces an older summary of his record; everything below was checked again from the sources.

U.S. military aid and weapons to the government of Israel

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Characterization of the conflict

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

Safety and antisemitism (context, not an answer to what America sends)

Not on the card, and why

Sources retrieved for this card (address; opened or could not open; date)

Also in this race: Joshua Kolasinski (Democrat) · All Ohio candidates.

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