Phil Scott
Scott has proclaimed Israel's Independence Day in Vermont two years running. In a 2024 statement he said Palestinian civilians killed since the war began "should also be in our thoughts". Nothing was located from him on U.S. weapons or money for the government of Israel.
Scott has been governor of Vermont since 2017 and is running again. He has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are his, and nothing located has him taking a position on what the United States sends.
The proclamations this site had been crediting him with, without a date or a document, are real and published. His office has issued one in each of the last two years marking Israel's Independence Day: Proclamation 25-69 in May 2025 and Proclamation 26-41 in April 2026. They are ceremonial state documents, which is the end of the job a governor's office does here.
He has said one thing that goes further than ceremony. In a statement in October 2024 he mourned the Israelis killed, condemned antisemitism, and then turned to the other side of the ledger: "We also know tens of thousands more have died in the year since, including many Palestinian civilians. They should also be in our thoughts today." He closed by calling the resolution to the conflict complex and asking Vermonters to agree at least that expressions of hate at home achieve nothing.
He has also signed his name to group documents with other Republican governors, and in October 2025 he condemned leaked messages from a national Young Republican group chat as "disgusting and unacceptable". If you want his position on what the United States sends, ask Scott 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. A governor has no authority over it, and neither this record nor a fresh search of the open record in August 2026 holds any statement from him about it. The fresh search reached the same conclusion in its own words.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located as a position on funding. The October 2024 statement below is the only place he speaks about Palestinian civilians at all.
Characterization of the conflict
- [Position, 2024-10-07] Statement from his own office, dated on the page and read and confirmed word for word. The three paragraphs: he mourns the Israelis killed and the hostages still held, and condemns "antisemitism of any kind – which, unfortunately, has escalated over the last year"; then "We also know tens of thousands more have died in the year since, including many Palestinian civilians. They should also be in our thoughts today."; then "The resolution to this conflict is complex. But instead of letting it further divide us, I hope Vermonters come together around a shared belief that expressions of hate in America are unacceptable and do nothing to achieve lasting peace where there is war." The statement is dated outside the reaction window, and the span the card uses carries no date of its own, which is why it can appear there.
- [Reaction window, 2023-10-15] Spoke at a rally in Burlington in support of Israel, reported by Seven Days and the Vermont Daily Chronicle. Off the card (C1).
State action
- [Position, 2026-04-22] Proclamation 26-41, marking the seventy-eighth anniversary of Israel's independence, dated on his office's own document page.
- [Position, 2025-05-01] Proclamation 25-69, the same for the seventy-seventh anniversary. These are the documents this record's summary referred to without a date or a link; both open on the state's own site.
- Note on the earlier pass: the only address that record held for him, an anniversary statement at a slightly different path on the same host, returns nothing. The live statement above is the same item at the working address, and the dead one is no longer needed.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Prior, 2023-04-27] Signed a joint statement of Republican governors recognizing Jewish American Heritage Month, which affirms an "unbreakable bond" between the United States and Israel (Iowa's release).
- [Position, 2024-05-01] Signed a similar joint statement reaffirming "unwavering support for the Nation of Israel and her people" (Idaho's release).
- [Position, 2025-05-14] Signed a joint statement of Republican governors recognizing Israel's Independence Day (Vermont Business Magazine). All three are collective documents and none of their wording is attributed to him personally.
- No endorsement located on either side.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- [Position, 2025-10-14] Statement condemning leaked messages from a national Young Republican group chat, which he called disgusting and unacceptable and described as vile, racist, bigoted and antisemitic.
- The condemnation of antisemitism in the October 2024 statement above.
Race and status context
- Governor of Vermont since 2017, running again, per Ballotpedia's race page and his Ballotpedia profile.
- [Position, read 2026-08-17] Campaign site: growing the economy, affordability, protecting the most vulnerable. No foreign-policy content.
- His tracked vote cells are all not-in-office.
Also in this race: Amanda Janoo (Democrat) · All Vermont candidates.
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