Walid Hakim
Hakim's platform would end South Carolina's investment of taxpayer money in foreign nations and war bonds, naming purchases of Israel bonds. He opposes the state's antisemitism definition as an attempt to shield Israel from criticism. His platform says nothing about U.S. weapons or money.
Hakim is the Green Party's nominee for governor of South Carolina, a Marine Corps veteran, and the son of a Palestinian father. He has never held office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his.
What a governor of South Carolina actually controls is state money, and his platform says what he would do with it. Under a heading he calls a Carolina First investment policy, he would "End investment of SC taxpayer money in foreign nations or war-related bonds (e.g., ending purchases of Israel bonds)" and redirect the money into state infrastructure, housing and education. Direction named: state money out of the debt of the government of Israel.
He has also taken a position against a state law. South Carolina has written the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism into statute, and he says on his campaign page that this was the wrong instrument: "instead of taking the time to write a real law to address the actual rising antisemitism problem we have here, we have taken the bold step of attempting to invalidate the 1st Amendment to shield The State of Israel from criticism." He says what he would do instead: "As governor of SC, I would ask that a real and comprehensive Hate Crimes Bill be written to protect every religion, race, culture or ethnicity under threat."
On what the United States should send, his platform is silent, and none of the reports that he has criticized American military aid could be opened and read; those addresses are written out on his research page. His earlier remarks about the conflict itself are dated and set out there too. If you want his position on what Washington sends, you are better placed to get it than we are: ask Hakim directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in his own words.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- Nothing located that can be opened and read. His platform, read in full, carries no plank on U.S. weapons, U.S. military aid or foreign assistance.
- [Unconfirmed, 2025-08-19 and 2025-09-28] A fresh search reported two social media posts of his criticizing American military funding for the government of Israel. The addresses it cites belong to a Michigan public health official's page and to a newspaper's page rather than to him, and both return an error to us. Nothing from either is used, and the misattribution is recorded here so it is not repeated.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Reaction window, 2023-12-10] At a weekly ceasefire demonstration in Columbia, speaking as director of Middle Eastern affairs for the Carolina Peace Resource Center, he told the Post and Courier: "If Israel wants to go after Hamas, they can do that, but what we really need is to have the civilian Palestinian population stabilized," and "But it's pretty much an apartheid situation (in Israel). Israelis and Palestinians aren't going anywhere. It's just a matter of how many people have to suffer and die before we reconcile." Read and confirmed word for word; the parenthesis is the newspaper's. This is the source of the apartheid characterization this record had been carrying with nothing behind it. Off the card (C1): dated inside the reaction window.
- [Unconfirmed, 2026] The fresh search reported further statements of his in 2026 describing the campaign in Gaza as genocide and Palestinians as an indigenous population subject to settler colonialism and forced displacement. Every address it cites for these is a third party's social page and none of them opens to us. Recorded here, used nowhere.
State action
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] His platform, read in full and confirmed: "End investment of SC taxpayer money in foreign nations or war-related bonds (e.g., ending purchases of Israel bonds)" and "Redirect all state investment funds back into South Carolina infrastructure, housing, education, and savings." The page carries no date of its own, so it is dated to the day it was read; it is his live campaign platform and is treated as a current position.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] On his campaign's own page, under a video about the state antisemitism statute, confirmed word for word: "That's how powerful the Israeli lobby has become. Interfering with local laws and trampling the Bill of Rights to protect a foreign nation." The page carries no date we could read, so none is given.
- [Unconfirmed] The fresh search reported further criticism by him of pro-Israel political committees and of legislators' sponsored travel. Its addresses are third parties' pages and do not open. Not used.
- No endorsement located. A check on 2026-07-18 found none.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] From the same page: "In South Carolina, you're in violation of law when you compare Israel to Nazi Germany. By adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism, instead of taking the time to write a real law to address the actual rising antisemitism problem we have here, we have taken the bold step of attempting to invalidate the 1st Amendment to shield The State of Israel from criticism." And: "As governor of SC, I would ask that a real and comprehensive Hate Crimes Bill be written to protect every religion, race, culture or ethnicity under threat." He states in the same passage that antisemitism is a real and rising problem in the state.
Race and status context
- Green Party nominee for governor, on the general-election ballot with the Democratic and Republican nominees, per Ballotpedia's race page and his profile; campaign site read 2026-08-18.
- He holds no federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his.
Also in this race: Jermaine Johnson (Democrat), Alan Wilson (Republican) · All South Carolina candidates.
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