But What Can You Do? tracks where 2026 candidates stand on U.S. weapons and funding for the government of Israel. How we check
Beth Farnham
Democrat · U.S. House, Pennsylvania District 13
✓Opposes
How this mark works
We track key votes on sending U.S. weapons and money to the government of Israel. A check means every tracked vote they cast came down against sending more, on the side of peace and de-escalation. A question mark means a mixed record: they sided with sending up to half of the time. An X means they voted to send more weapons and money in over half of their tracked votes, even as the way those weapons and dollars were being used became more and more obvious. At exactly half, money this election cycle from a lobbying group we track, or an endorsement from a group that backs sending weapons, makes it an X. Only votes actually cast are counted. Where a candidate has no recorded votes on these bills, the mark comes instead from a reviewed reading of their public record (money from the lobbying groups we track, endorsements, and their own words since January 26, 2024). There an X also covers fully backing the conduct of the war by the government of Israel without significant reservations, and a question mark also covers speaking about Israel without saying clearly where they stand on U.S. weapons and funding. A dash means No Position Found: we found nothing in their own words about Israel, Gaza or the war.
Two reviewers, reading the public record as a whole, agree: Her own site opposes the Section 219 expansion of U.S.-Israel military integration because Israel has abused its power and attacks the incumbent for voting it through, and nothing in her words says any military support should continue. Reviewed by hand on 2026-10-01. This candidate has no recorded tracked floor votes.
Farnham's campaign site opposes "expanding defense technology cooperation and integration between U.S. and Israeli militaries," saying "we cannot trust Israel not to abuse more power." On AIPAC money: "Absolutely not."
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Farnham is the Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania's 13th District.
Her position is written on her own campaign site and it is specific about the mechanism she objects to. Under a heading declining AIPAC money she writes: "AIPAC donations? Absolutely not. Expanding defense technology cooperation and integration between U.S. and Israeli militaries? Not that either."
She sets out why in the same passage, and distinguishes the attack from the response: "While Israel was attacked by the terrorist group, Hamas, in 2023 and was within her right to retaliate against Hamas, Israeli forces have clearly abused that power." And: "We cannot trust Israel not to abuse more power, and therefore, the Palestinian people, with integration of American defense technology."
She names the legislative vehicle. She criticises the incumbent, Rep. John Joyce, for voting "for the 2027 budget bill with section 219 intact," the provision expanding U.S.-Israel defence cooperation, and notes he has accepted AIPAC money.
Earlier campaign posts in January and February 2026 criticised his support for spending legislation carrying aid to Israel, and cited United Nations figures on deaths since the October 2025 ceasefire, roughly a third of them near an advancing demarcation line.
She has no federal voting record.
The money
Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found
2026 support from the five lobbying groups we track
Nothing recorded (as of 2026-07-23) from the five lobbying groups we track; earlier cycles and earmarked donations not yet tracked.
Support-only OpenFEC data. Opposition independent expenditures are excluded.
In their words
“AIPAC donations? Absolutely not. Expanding defense technology cooperation and integration between U.S. and Israeli militaries? Not that either.”
“While Israel was attacked by the terrorist group, Hamas, in 2023 and was within her right to retaliate against Hamas, Israeli forces have clearly abused that power.”
The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
[Position, 2026-07-26] Her campaign site post, opened and confirmed word for word: "AIPAC donations? Absolutely not. Expanding defense technology cooperation and integration between U.S. and Israeli militaries? Not that either." And: "We cannot trust Israel not to abuse more power, and therefore, the Palestinian people, with integration of American defense technology." And: "It's horrendous that our own US Representative, multimillionaire John Joyce, voted for the 2027 budget bill with section 219 intact, but since he has accepted AIPAC money, though not a lot, it's hardly a surprise."
**Note the specificity**: her objection is to Section 219 of the FY2027 defence bill, the provision expanding U.S.-Israel defence cooperation, rather than to aid in general. That is the same provision nc4-foushee is reported to have opposed.
[Position, 2026-01-18 and 2026-02-01, reported] Earlier campaign posts criticised the incumbent for supporting spending legislation that included U.S. aid to Israel, in the research's rendering "funding to Isreal that perpetrates Gaza murders after 'ceasefire'" (January, February). Not opened; the research's rendering contains a misspelling and is not quoted.
She has no federal voting record.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
No distinct position located. Her objection concerns military cooperation and weapons rather than humanitarian assistance.
Characterization of the conflict
[Position, 2026-07-26] Confirmed verbatim: "While Israel was attacked by the terrorist group, Hamas, in 2023 and was within her right to retaliate against Hamas, Israeli forces have clearly abused that power." The passage continues into what the page attributes to Amnesty International; that attribution was not separately verified, so the card quotes only her own words.
[Position, 2026-07-26] Confirmed verbatim from the same page, quoting figures: Palestinians killed since the "ceasefire" agreement of October last year, with "UN data indicat[ing] that roughly a third of these deaths occurred in areas near this advancing demarcation line."
[Position, 2025-09-21, 2026-05-31 and 2026-07-26, reported] Characterised Israel's campaign in Gaza as a genocide, citing human rights groups and international bodies. The July 2026 page was opened and its own genocide reference is presented as citing Amnesty International rather than as her unattributed characterization, so the card does not put the word in her mouth directly.
[Position, 2026-03-28, reported] Spoke at a rally in Johnstown organised in opposition to authoritarianism, ICE practices and what the research calls the "Gaza genocide." No source located.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
[Position, 2026-07-26] "AIPAC donations? Absolutely not" (confirmed verbatim), and her criticism of the incumbent for accepting AIPAC money. A campaign-funding position, recorded here and quoted on the card because she pairs it directly with her policy objection in one sentence.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
[Position, 2024-04-22, reported] A Passover message wishing "all of our Jewish friends, family and neighbors throughout Pennsylvania a very Happy Passover." **The research's source is a Pennsylvania Senate Democrats Facebook post**, a caucus account rather than hers, whose own post text begins with those words. It is at least as likely to be the caucus's message as hers, and nothing is drawn from it.
Note on sources
Eleven entries. Four are Facebook posts or photos that could not be read, **two of them posts inside Facebook groups** rather than on her own page, and one belongs to the Pennsylvania Senate Democrats caucus. Her own site accounts for four, one of them cited twice, and the July 2026 post is the one that carries her position.
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