Gina Hinojosa

Hinojosa called the arrests at a University of Texas protest "out of hand". No statement by her on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel was located. A claim that she supports the boycott movement is a question she did not answer, not her position.

Hinojosa is a state representative from Austin and the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas. She has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are hers.

What she has spoken about is policing, not policy toward the war. When state troopers cleared a protest at the University of Texas at Austin in April 2024, she said the arrests were "out of hand" if there was no actual threat of violence. She returned to it in 2026, accusing the governor of "authoritarian brutality" for "bringing in DPS troopers on horseback to shut down protestors". Both are about how the state handled a demonstration. Neither says what she thinks the United States should send, or withhold, or to whom.

One circulating claim needs correcting, because it would otherwise sit in a reader's memory as a fact. She has been described as supporting the movement to apply economic pressure on the government of Israel through boycotts. That sentence is printed on a candidate questionnaire she left entirely blank: it is the form's own prompt, sitting above her answer, and her answer to it is "Did not answer", as is her answer to every other item on the form, from healthcare to immigration. A prompt is not a position.

A second thing that might look like a record is not one either. She was a member of the Texas House when the state's anti-boycott bill passed in 2017. Her individual vote could not be read from the roll call, so it is unknown, and nothing is attributed to her from it. If you want her position on what the United States sends, ask Hinojosa directly and send us the reply. It goes on this page in her own words.

Research

U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel

Nothing located. Recorded searches covered her name against military aid, conditioning, the United Nations refugee agency, Israel bonds and anti-boycott law, and returned nothing. A fresh search of the open record in August 2026 reached the same conclusion in its own words, on the ground that foreign military funding is a federal rather than a state matter. Coverage of her campaign launch describes a focus on education, healthcare and housing.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

Nothing located.

Characterization of the conflict

[Unconfirmed, reported as 2023-10-13] A fresh search attributed to her a statement reading, in part: "Hamas must be stopped, Israeli and American hostages must be returned, AND innocent Palestinians must be protected. Mass death of civilians in Gaza is unacceptable." The address it cites is the official account of a member of Congress from Texas, not hers, and it returns an error to us. Not hers on the evidence offered, and dated inside the reaction window in any case. Recorded here so the misattribution is not repeated.

Related rhetoric and lobbying

[Correction, read 2026-08-18] The claim that she supports the movement to apply economic pressure on the government of Israel through boycotts traces to the national security section of the iVoterGuide candidate profile. The page was opened and read again for this pass. The sentence in question, "I support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement to pressure Israel to withdraw from occupied territories, remove the separation barrier in the West Bank, allow full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees", is the guide's own prompt, printed on the page in the same position as its prompts about healthcare, vaccination and border security. Directly beneath it, where her answer goes, the page reads "Did not answer". Every item on her form reads "Did not answer". The prompt is the guide's wording, not hers, and it is not attributable to her.
[Position, 2024-04-24] On the clearing of a protest at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Tribune reports, and we confirmed on the page, that she "said the arrests were 'out of hand' if there wasn't an actual threat of violence".
[Position, 2026-04-17] On a call with two education unions she accused the governor of "hijacking" higher education and of "authoritarian brutality", giving as an example "bringing in DPS troopers on horseback to shut down protestors", referring to those 2024 protests. Reported and quoted by Texas Scorecard, read and confirmed. That outlet is openly hostile to her and frames the remarks as a defense of anti-Israel agitators; the framing is the outlet's and only her quoted words are used.
[Undetermined, 2017-05] She was a member of the Texas House when the state's anti-boycott bill passed. Her individual recorded vote could not be extracted: the roll-call page this record cites, https://legiscan.com/TX/rollcall/HB89/id/629477, sits behind a bot check and refuses us. A Republican Jewish Coalition chapter release applauding the bill's passage does not name her either. It is unknown whether she voted for it, against it, or was among those not voting, and nothing is attributed to her from it.

Safety and antisemitism (context)

Nothing located in her own words. A Texas Public Radio report on Jewish voters in the state names her among the candidates but carries no statement of hers on the subject.

Race and status context

Democratic nominee facing the incumbent governor, having won the primary outright (Houston Public Media); race context on Ballotpedia. State representative for District 49 since 2017. Her opponent has his own card in this batch and his record is not used here.