Mark Pocan

Deep Dive

Mark Pocan has represented Wisconsin's 2nd District, which takes in Madison, since January 3, 2013, and sat in the Wisconsin State Assembly for fourteen years before that. He serves on the House Appropriations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He won the Democratic primary on August 11, 2026 and he is the only candidate on the ballot in his district on November 3, 2026: no Republican ran in the primary, and the state's own ballot access record for the district carries no other name.

His fullest account of what the United States should send is a speech he gave on the House floor on April 9, 2024, after seven World Central Kitchen aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike. He told the House that "our government must stop supplying any offensive weapons or equipment that damages Gaza further, especially in regards to any invasion of Rafah", and in the same passage that "I urge our government to do more to help distribute aid, utilizing great groups like the World Central Kitchen and UNRWA and others that are doing this work." Eleven days later, explaining his vote on the Israel supplemental, he wrote that the bill carried billions of dollars in unconditional weapons and that he "could not in good conscience vote for more offensive weapons to be given to Israel to be used in Gaza without any conditions attached". He drew a line inside that same statement: the bill's money for the Iron Dome and other Israeli defense systems, he wrote, rightly enables Israel to defend itself.

He has pressed the same point since. In April 2024 he led a letter with 55 colleagues asking the president and the secretary of state to withhold pending offensive arms transfers until the airstrike had been investigated and to put conditions on future military assistance. In May 2024 he welcomed the president's promise to withhold offensive weapons if the Israeli military entered Rafah, saying "President Biden is right to use his leverage to prevent Israel from inflicting further unnecessary bloodshed." In June 2025 he was one of four members who introduced the Block the Bombs Act, which would withhold transfers of specified offensive weapons until the Israeli government establishes that they are being used in line with American and international law. "This commonsense bill will prevent more unchecked transfers of these offensive weapons systems that are used to violate international human rights laws and hopefully help bring this devastating conflict to an end," he said then.

On American money for Palestinians his record runs back past this war. In February 2020 he and Rep. Debbie Dingell led a letter asking the State Department to restore all American humanitarian funding for Gaza, including money for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and he said that "Restoring U.S. assistance to Gaza as well as urging the Israeli government to end the blockade is a necessary step to secure a peaceful and stable future for the region." In December 2025 he and Rep. Madeleine Dean led 47 colleagues in urging the president to exert maximum diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government, including by leveraging U.S. assistance, to get the ceasefire honored and the aid let in. In June 2026 he led 85 members in asking the secretary of state to halt settlement construction in the E-1 area of the West Bank, which the signers call annexation in its clearest form. Those two letters are group texts and their wording is the signers' jointly.

He is blunt about how he reads the war. In July 2024 he stayed away from the Israeli prime minister's address to Congress, saying it was "wildly inappropriate to give the distinct honor of addressing Congress to a man who has violated international human rights law so severely that an arrest warrant for war crimes has been recommended by the International Criminal Court", and he gave his guest ticket to a cousin of a woman taken hostage by Hamas and released after 54 days. He has also argued repeatedly with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying organization that works to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the government of Israel and that also spends in American elections; in August 2024 he answered it on social media, writing that Netanyahu's "real plan is to destroy Gaza" and that the group "supports Netanyahu, not Israel".

His record from before this war, what he has said about antisemitism, the criticism his social media posts have drawn and his record from the autumn of 2023 are on his research page.

The record

Supported sending weapons or funding in 1 of 6 tracked votes · Cosponsors the Block the Bombs Act

House Committee on Appropriations · House Committee on Foreign Affairs

The money

Checked the five lobbying groups we track; no direct 2026 support found

In their words

Peace Action (2026 endorsement) · A New Policy PAC (2026 endorsement) · Track AIPAC (2026 endorsement)

Research log

The notes behind this card: what we looked at, what we found, and where each item came from.

Every page named below was opened and read on 2026-09-20 unless the entry says otherwise. His congressional newsroom was read in full: 801 items across all 81 pages of the press release listing, every title checked against this subject and every match opened. His committees page and his campaign site were read in full. Bands: Position (2024-01-26 onward), Reaction window (2023-10-07 to 2024-01-25), Earlier record (before 2023-10-07), Undated. His recorded House votes and his cosponsorship of tracked legislation are shown in this card's record section and are not restated here; this record carries no tracked funding.

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

• [Position, 2024-04-09, published 2024-04-20] His remarks on the House floor, published in full by his own office. The two in-scope sentences: "I urge our government to do more to help distribute aid, utilizing great groups like the World Central Kitchen and UNRWA and others that are doing this work. And our government must stop supplying any offensive weapons or equipment that damages Gaza further, especially in regards to any invasion of Rafah." The speech also sets out what he says he heard at town halls in Edgerton, Sauk City, Monroe, Mazomanie and Darlington, including that his constituents tell him "it looks like punishment for being Palestinian" and that "it looks too much like what genocide would look like"; those are his account of what constituents said to him, not his own characterization, and they are recorded here rather than on the card for that reason. The speech carries casualty and displacement figures throughout; cards here do not reproduce casualty material, so none of it is quoted on the card.
• [Position, 2024-04-20] His statement explaining his vote on the supplemental bills. In full on this question: "Today's votes also included billions of dollars in unconditional weapons for Israel. While the Israel Supplemental bill also included necessary funding for global humanitarian assistance as well as funding for the Iron Dome and other Israeli defense systems that rightly enable Israel to defend itself, I could not in good conscience vote for more offensive weapons to be given to Israel to be used in Gaza without any conditions attached. The devastation inflicted upon innocent civilians in Gaza is unjustifiable, and the United States cannot continue providing Prime Minister Netanyahu with a blank check to expand this conflict. Further arming Netanyahu and his extreme coalition could only lead us to a wider conflict in the Middle East. A ceasefire and freeing the hostages while also redoubling the efforts to achieve a two-state solution is the surest way toward peace in the region; more bombs to kill starving kids is not." The same statement says he voted for the Ukraine bill and for the Indo-Pacific bill. One of the votes it explains is shown in this card's record section; the card characterizes it only because he explained it himself in his own words, and it narrates no roll call. The Iron Dome sentence is about a defensive system and is kept off the fifty-word front by standing rule.
• [Position, 2024-04-05] The letter he led with Reps. Jim McGovern and Jan Schakowsky and 37 other members, asking the president and the secretary of state to reconsider a new arms package and "to withhold this and any future offensive arms transfers until a full investigation into the airstrike is completed", and to condition future assistance. The members also wrote that they urge the administration "to withhold these transfers if Israel fails to sufficiently mitigate harm to innocent civilians in Gaza, including aid workers, and if it fails to facilitate - or arbitrarily denies or restricts - the transport and delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza." Collective wording throughout, so nothing here is attributed to him alone, and the letter's casualty passages are not reproduced. His own floor speech of April 9 says the letter carried 56 signatures; the release says he and two colleagues and 37 others sent it. Both figures are his office's and the difference is recorded rather than resolved.
• [Position, 2024-05-09] His statement welcoming the president's promise to withhold offensive weapons transfers if the Israeli military entered Rafah: "More than one million innocent Palestinians have been backed into a corner with nowhere to go. If Israel were to invade Rafah, tens of thousands of Palestinians would needlessly die. President Biden is right to use his leverage to prevent Israel from inflicting further unnecessary bloodshed. It's time for a ceasefire and for Hamas to release all the hostages. We must end this war and work toward a two-state solution that works for all."
• [Position, 2025-06-05] Rep. Delia Ramirez's release on the introduction of the Block the Bombs Act names him as one of four members who led 18 members of Congress in introducing it, and describes the bill as withholding the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel and demanding compliance with American and international law. His own words in it: "For the last year and a half, Benjamin Netanyahu has laid siege to Gaza, killing at least 54,000 people, repeatedly displacing the entire population, and cutting off access to desperately needed humanitarian aid," and "This commonsense bill will prevent more unchecked transfers of these offensive weapons systems that are used to violate international human rights laws and hopefully help bring this devastating conflict to an end." The first sentence carries a casualty figure and is not used on the card; the second is. His own newsroom published nothing about the bill, which is why another member's release is the source. The bill is one of the items shown in this card's record section.
• [Earlier record, 2021-09-14] Jewish Currents' report that he, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib submitted an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill that would have required the administration to halt the export of Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Small Diameter Bombs to Israel for a year. The same report records that the three of them had introduced a resolution in May 2021 to block a planned $735 million sale of the same manufacturer's bombs. The article carries no words of his; it is the record of the action, four and a half years before this war.
• Nothing located from him on the dollar figure in the memorandum of understanding between the United States and the government of Israel, or on Foreign Military Financing by name.

U.S. aid to Palestinians

• [Position, 2024-04-09] The floor speech quoted above, in which he names the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees and the World Central Kitchen as the groups he wants the United States to work through.
• [Position, 2025-12-22] The letter he led with Rep. Madeleine Dean and 47 colleagues to the president about violations of the Gaza ceasefire. The signers wrote: "Given the longstanding relationship between the U.S. and Israel, it's imperative that we hold the Israeli government accountable for its actions," and "We strongly urge your administration to exert maximum diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government, including by leveraging U.S. assistance, to ensure full compliance with the terms of the framework and an end to the continued acts of violence and destruction that undermine this fragile agreement and threaten the prospect of lasting peace in the region." They also wrote that they recognize both Hamas and Israel have committed ceasefire violations, and that the agreement calls for 600 trucks of aid a day while far fewer are getting through. Collective wording throughout. The release names five endorsing organizations, which are advocacy groups rather than signers: the Center for International Policy Advocacy, Foreign Policy for America, J Street, New Jewish Narrative and Win Without War. The letter's casualty passages are not reproduced here.
• [Earlier record, 2020-02-20] The letter he led with Rep. Debbie Dingell to the secretary of state urging the administration to restore all American funding for humanitarian aid in Gaza, including funding through the development agency and the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, and to end the blockade on movement in and out of Gaza. His own words: "Palestinians in Gaza are facing a humanitarian crisis and unless the United States acts now, we will be complacent in the starvation and poverty of millions of people," and "Restoring U.S. assistance to Gaza as well as urging the Israeli government to end the blockade is a necessary step to secure a peaceful and stable future for the region." Thirty-one members cosigned.
• [Earlier record, 2021-08-24] His letter with Rep. Dingell and 53 members to the secretary of state calling for the border crossings into Gaza to be reopened for aid and reconstruction material. His own words: "Building walls does not solve problems. What the Israeli and Egyptian governments are doing to the people of Gaza is downright shameful. The United States has the moral obligation to call for and demand that humanitarian aid be allowed to enter Gaza and help the millions of people who live there maintain their basic human dignity."
• [Earlier record, 2021-03-15] His letter with Rep. Andre Carson urging the Israeli government to vaccinate Palestinians, and [Earlier record, 2018-07-30 and 2018-09-13] two earlier group statements, one on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and one condemning cuts that harmed Palestinians.

Characterization of the conflict

• [Position, 2024-07-24] His statement announcing he would not attend the Israeli prime minister's address to Congress, in full: "For nearly 10 months, Netanyahu has waged a deadly and excessive response that has targeted Gazan civilians. It is wildly inappropriate to give the distinct honor of addressing Congress to a man who has violated international human rights law so severely that an arrest warrant for war crimes has been recommended by the International Criminal Court. I regret that one has not been issued yet, as I would have gladly served it to him on the House floor. Additionally, he's failed to rescue or secure the release of the more than 100 of his citizens who remain hostages of Hamas, while ignoring the pleas of their family members to bring them home. It's time for Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire now and get the hostages back." The release records that he invited as his guest Maya Roman, a cousin of Yarden Roman, who was taken hostage on October 7, 2023 and released after 54 days.
• [Position, 2026-06-05] The letter he led with Rep. Jan Schakowsky, signed by 85 members, to the secretary of state about settlement construction in the E-1 area of the West Bank. The signers wrote that construction there "would bisect the West Bank by severing the north from the south and cutting off Palestinian communities in Ramallah from those in Bethlehem", and concluded: "Construction in E-1 is annexation in its clearest form. We urge this administration to take meaningful action to back up this rhetoric." Collective wording.
• [Earlier record, 2023-07-18] His statement on the House resolution supporting the State of Israel, which he voted for: "This resolution is aspirational: it embodies what Israel wants to be and what we hope it is. But if we want to make this vision a reality, then as friends of Israel, we must point out the significant barriers to those aspirations - as any good friend would." And: "We must recognize that the expansion of illegal settlements, settler terrorism, and inhumane conditions in Gaza make meaningful peace elusive, as do rocket attacks against Israelis by extremists in Gaza." And: "Israel is a friend of the United States. Criticism of the Israeli government and their actions is not antisemitism – it's real and honest friendship."
• [Earlier record, 2019-04-11, 2019-11-18, 2019-12-06, 2020-08-14 and 2023-07-25] His statement with Rep. Pramila Jayapal on annexation threats, his opposition to the reversal of American policy on West Bank settlements, his vote to affirm a two-state solution, the Israeli Annexation Non-Recognition Act he cosponsored, announced by Rep. Ilhan Omar's office, and his response to the Israeli judicial law. All before this war and all consistent with the position band.
• [Reaction window, page-dated 2023-10-06 but a response to the October 7 attacks] His statement condemning the Hamas attacks. The page prints October 6, 2023 and its metadata says the same, which cannot be right for a statement about those attacks; it is treated as reaction-window material and kept out of the card summary, which is the conservative reading. Recorded here with the page's own date and the discrepancy stated.
• [Reaction window, 2023-10-18] His call for a cessation of hostilities towards civilians and for a much larger humanitarian aid package. Not on the card summary because of its date. Our research attributed this statement to a Wisconsin political news service; it is his own congressional release.
• [Reaction window, 2023-11-15] The Guardian's report of a letter to the president on children in Gaza that he co-led with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Betty McCollum. Not on the card summary because of its date.

Israel-related rhetoric and lobbying

• [Position, 2024-08-12] The Algemeiner's report of his exchange with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on social media. His post as the outlet prints it, with the organization's account handle rendered in brackets: "The hypocrisy of [AIPAC]. Netanyahu refuses to support the ceasefire/return of hostage plan, as his real plan is to destroy Gaza. Yet they claim Hamas missing a meeting as supposed failure. Both should support the plan. Just dark money [AIPAC] supports Netanyahu, not Israel." The report sets out what the organization had posted about him first, and what it posted in reply; those are its words and are not used. The organization is a lobbying group that works to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the government of Israel and that, since 2021, also runs political committees that spend in American elections.
• [Position, 2024-06-06] Jewish Insider's article about his social media posts, by Marc Rod. Its thesis, stated in its headline and carried by the experts it quotes, is that his posts against the lobbying organization have echoed antisemitic tropes; it reports that he describes the group's spending as "toxic" and the group as a "Trojan horse" in Democratic politics. The same article quotes two people from the Jewish community in his district: one says he has kept up a strong dialogue with local Jewish leaders and has been "extremely helpful" on nonprofit security grant funding, Holocaust education, supporting Holocaust survivors and federal funding for refugee resettlement, while saying "words matter"; the other says he does not believe Pocan is an antisemite but is "disappointed in how stupid he looks right now". This is a third party writing about him, so nothing from it is on the card, and both sides of what it reports are set out here. Our research described this article only by its second half.
• [Reaction window, 2023-11-06 interview, reported 2023-11-07] Common Dreams' account of an interview he gave to Slate about the same organization, in which he called it a front group for conservative policy in the United States and used an expletive about it, which is not reproduced here. Not on the card summary because of its date.
• [Position, 2025-09-08; not watched] A video of floor remarks of his about the conduct of Israeli military operations in Gaza, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDUVK4KxvM . No video was watched for this card and no press release of his covers it, so nothing is taken from it.
• No statement of his about donations to his own campaign from any organization on this subject was located, and this record carries no tracked funding.

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

• [Reaction window, 2023-12-05] His statement explaining a present vote on a House resolution on antisemitism. Not on the card summary because of its date; recorded here with it.
• [Earlier record, 2017-09-20 and 2023-04-05] His statement on antisemitic vandalism in Madison and his announcement of federal funding for Jewish Social Services of Madison.
• [Position, 2025-06-26 and 2025-06-29] Two reports that a campaign group and an Israeli outlet criticized a social media post of his telling a White House official to "go back to 1930s Germany", at https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/cam-rep-pocan-must-apologize-for-antisemitic-rhetoric-against-trump-advisor/ and https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410816 . Both pages opened. The post itself was not located and nothing in either report concerns what the United States sends, so the item is recorded here and nothing is built on it.

What the campaign site and own pages say

• [Read 2026-09-20] His campaign site has four pages: a home page, Meet Mark, a news page whose most recent item is dated November 29, 2018, and a contact page. There is no issues page. A search of the whole site for israel, gaza, palestin, hamas, antisemit, jewish, aipac, weapon, foreign and middle east returns nothing. The home page still asks for a vote on November 5th, which was the 2024 election day.
• [Read 2026-09-20] His official committees page: "Congressman Pocan is proud to serve on the House Committee on Appropriations and the House Foreign Affairs Committee." It also names him as co-founder and co-chair of the Labor Caucus and co-chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.
• [Read 2026-09-20] His Ballotpedia page records that he assumed office on January 3, 2013 and that his current term ends on January 3, 2027.

The race

• [Read 2026-09-20] Ballotpedia's page for the 2026 election in Wisconsin's 2nd District: "Incumbent Mark Pocan is running in the general election for U.S. House Wisconsin District 2 on November 3, 2026." One name, his. Under the Republican primary the page says "No Republican candidates ran in the primary", and it lists Erik Olsen as a withdrawn or disqualified Republican. The general election is November 3, 2026, Wisconsin's partisan primary was August 11, 2026 and the filing deadline was June 1, 2026. Pocan defeated Douglas Alexander in the Democratic primary, 88.3 percent and 82,022 votes to 11.7 percent and 10,911. Ballotpedia prints its own caution that the candidate list may not be complete.
• [Read 2026-09-20] The Wisconsin Elections Commission's ballot access report for the 2026 general election, the staff memorandum for the commission's June 9, 2026 meeting, printed June 8, 2026. Under "Office : REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS DISTRICT 2" it carries two filings and no others: "61 Mark Pocan Democratic N/A 5/18/2026 N/A 05/18/2026 1944 Approve" and "296 Douglas Alexander Democratic N/A 6/1/2026 N/A 06/01/2026 1076 Approve", with the office subtotal printed as 2. No Republican, no independent and no minor-party candidate filed for this district by the deadline. Erik Olsen, whom Ballotpedia lists as withdrawn or disqualified, does not appear in the report at all.
• There is no other candidate in this race, so there is no other record to keep off this card.

Places that could not be read, so nothing is claimed from them

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDUVK4KxvM , the video of September 2025 floor remarks. The page exists; no video was watched for this card.
• https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/memos/congress-must-block-the-bombs-to-israel , a policy memo our research cited for the Block the Bombs Act, which refused. Rep. Ramirez's own release carries the same facts and opened.
• The full texts of the April 2024, December 2025 and June 2026 letters, which the releases link behind document viewers. Only the passages the releases quote are used.
• His accounts on Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. The August 2024 post is quoted only as the Algemeiner prints it, and the 2025 post about a White House official was not located.

Not on the card, and why

• Everything dated between October 7, 2023 and January 25, 2024: the statement on the attacks, the October 18 call for a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian aid, the November 2023 letter about children in Gaza, the November 2023 interview about the lobbying organization, and the December 2023 present vote. All are on this page with their dates, and no date, quoted span or paraphrase from any of them appears in the card front, the deep dive or the quotations. This is a large body of material and it is consistent with the rest of his record rather than different from it.
• The casualty, displacement and famine figures that run through his April 2024 floor speech, the April 2024 and December 2025 letters, and the first sentence of his June 2025 statement on the Block the Bombs Act. Cards here do not reproduce casualty material; every one of those documents is linked so a reader can see all of it.
• What his constituents told him at town halls in April 2024, including the word genocide. That is his account of what other people said to him, not a characterization of his own.
• The passages of his April 2024 statement about the Iron Dome and other Israeli defense systems, which he says rightly enable Israel to defend itself. Defensive systems are kept off the fifty-word front by standing rule; the sentence is on the deep dive and here with no prejudice.
• His statements about Ukraine, Taiwan, Yemen, Cuba, Colombia and Iran. Different questions from what the United States sends to the government of Israel and to Palestinians.
• The antisemitism material: the present vote, the Madison vandalism statement, the federal funding announcement for a Jewish social services agency, and the two 2025 reports about a post of his. Context about safety, not an answer to what America sends.
• The words of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, of Jewish Insider's experts and of the two community members it quotes, and of Reps. Ramirez, Jacobs, Jayapal, Dingell and Dean. Other people's words. The letters he signed with others are recorded as collective documents rather than sharpened into statements of his alone.
• The labor, health care, appropriations, postal, education and equality material that fills most of his newsroom. Out of scope.
• The recorded votes and the tracked cosponsorship. They are shown in this card's record section. The prose narrates no roll call; the one vote it characterizes is the April 2024 supplemental, and it does so from the statement he published explaining it himself.

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

• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases and the 801 items across its 81 listing pages (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/speaks-regarding-ongoing-humanitarian-situation-gaza (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2024-04-20T10:17:38-04:00; the remarks themselves are dated April 9, 2024 on the page)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-votes-much-needed-ukraine-aid-against-unconditional-weapons (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2024-04-20T14:00:00-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-mcgovern-schakowsky-urge-biden-blinken-withhold-weapons-transfers (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2024-04-05T17:35:55-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-commends-bidens-vow-withhold-offensive-weapons-if-israel-invades (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2024-05-09T21:00:00-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-boycott-netanyahu-congressional-address (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2024-07-24T12:31:08-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-dean-lead-letter-trump-violations-ceasefire-gaza (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2025-12-22T11:04:13-05:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-schakowsky-lead-85-members-urging-sec-rubio-pressure-israeli-govt (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2026-06-05T12:30:26-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-dingell-call-to-restore-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2020-02-20)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/dingell-pocan-call-for-increased-humanitarian-access-for-gaza (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2021-08-24)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-carson-lead-letter-urging-israel-to-vaccinate-palestinians (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2021-03-15)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-supports-israel-resolution (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2023-07-18T16:01:27-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-responds-israels-new-judicial-law (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2023-07-25)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-votes-to-affirm-two-state-solution-for-palestine-and-israel (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2019-12-06)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-opposes-pompeo-reversing-policy-on-west-bank-settlements (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2019-11-18)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-and-jayapal-denounce-netanyahu-annexation-threats-urge-adherence (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2019-04-11)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-democrats-call-on-trump-administration-to-address-growing and https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/house-democrats-condemn-trump-administration-s-actions-harming-the (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2018-07-30 and 2018-09-13)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/members-of-congress-release-statement-on-protests-in-gaza , https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/members-of-congress-release-statement-on-violence-in-gaza and https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-kildee-johnson-call-on-israel-to-grant-access-to-gaza (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2018-04-12, 2018-05-14 and 2018-04-25)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-condemns-terror-attacks-israel (opened; 2026-09-20; the page prints October 6, 2023, which cannot be right for its content)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-calls-cessation-hostilities-humanitarian-aid-israel-gaza (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2023-10-18T09:11:00-04:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-votes-present-meaningless-gop-resolution (opened; 2026-09-20; article:published_time 2023-12-05T08:04:18-05:00)
• https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-denounces-anti-semitic-vandalism-in-madison and https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-announces-federal-funding-for-jewish-social-services-of-madison (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2017-09-20 and 2023-04-05)
• https://pocan.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses and https://pocan.house.gov/about (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ramirez-jacobs-jayapal-pocan-18-members-congress-introduce-legislation (opened; 2026-09-20; dated June 5, 2025)
• https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/omar-mccollum-tlaib-ocasio-cortez-pressley-pocan-introduce-israeli-annexation (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2020-08-14)
• https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/08/12/mark-pocan-rips-aipac-dark-money-group-claims-netanyahu-plotting-destroy-gaza/ (opened; 2026-09-20; dated August 12, 2024 2:21 pm on the page)
• https://jewishinsider.com/2024/06/mark-pocan-antisemitic-tropes-aipac-israel-gaza-social-media/ (opened; 2026-09-20; dated June 6, 2024, by Marc Rod)
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/mark-pocan-aipac (opened; 2026-09-20; dated Nov 07, 2023, reporting an interview published Nov 06, 2023)
• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/15/democrats-biden-israel-ceasefire-letter-childrens-rights (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2023-11-15)
• https://jewishcurrents.org/house-progressives-renew-effort-to-block-bomb-deliveries-to-israel (opened; 2026-09-20; dated September 14, 2021, by Alex Kane)
• https://combatantisemitism.org/cam-news/cam-rep-pocan-must-apologize-for-antisemitic-rhetoric-against-trump-advisor/ and https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/410816 (opened; 2026-09-20; dated 2025-06-26 and 2025-06-29)
• https://pocanforcongress.com/ , https://pocanforcongress.com/meet-mark/ and https://pocanforcongress.com/news/ (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin%27s_2nd_Congressional_District_election,_2026 and https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Pocan (opened; 2026-09-20)
• https://elections.wi.gov/sites/default/files/documents/D.%20Ballot%20Access%20Report%206.9.2026.pdf (opened; 2026-09-20; printed June 8, 2026 for the June 9, 2026 commission meeting)
• https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/memos/congress-must-block-the-bombs-to-israel and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YDUVK4KxvM (could not open, or is a video that was not watched; 2026-09-20)
• This is a record of what was checked on 2026-09-20, not a claim that no other statement exists.