Rachel Lee Fetty Anderson
Anderson's campaign issues page, under its Israel and Palestine heading, says she supports a two-state solution and would not vote to send or sell weapons to any country except for purely self-defense. "Both Israel and Palestine deserve to exist," it reads.
Anderson is a Morgantown attorney and former city councilmember, and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia. She has never held federal office, so none of the congressional votes this site tracks are hers, and everything below comes from what she has published herself.
Her campaign's issues page carries a short section headed on Israel and Palestine. It reads in full: "I support a two-state solution. Both Israel and Palestine deserve to exist. I would not vote to send or sell weapons to any country except for purely self-defense. Candidates should not take campaign contributions from foreign governments or foreign governments' PACs." The weapons sentence is written about every country rather than about one, and she places it under that heading. She does not name the government of Israel in it.
A separate section on the same page, headed on war, sets out the rule she says she would apply: "US military power should be reserved for self-defense. The Constitution states it is the job of Congress to declare war, not the President. No troops should ever be placed in harm's way without the approval of Congress." Her platform page adds a demand for audits: "I will demand accountability for American funds and assets to ensure they are spent in a Constitutional manner requiring audits of the Defense department, foreign and corporate payments, investment and gifts to all elected officials." The line about refusing money from foreign governments and their political action committees is about how a campaign is funded, not about weapons, and it is not counted here as a weapons position.
Nothing was located from her on U.S. funding for Palestinians as such, and nothing outside her own website: no vote, no legislative record and no independent coverage of these positions that we could open. The pages themselves carry no date.
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U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] Her campaign issues page, under a heading on Israel and Palestine, verified word for word: "I support a two-state solution. Both Israel and Palestine deserve to exist. I would not vote to send or sell weapons to any country except for purely self-defense. Candidates should not take campaign contributions from foreign governments or foreign governments' PACs." The page carries no date; it was gathered on 2026-07-24 and read again on the date above. What the sentence says: a self-defense-only condition on sending or selling weapons, written about any country and placed under that heading. What it does not say: anything naming the government of Israel. Both facts are on the card and the reader is left to weigh them.
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] Same page, under a heading on war, verified word for word: "US military power should be reserved for self-defense. The Constitution states it is the job of Congress to declare war, not the President. No troops should ever be placed in harm's way without the approval of Congress."
- [Unconfirmed, reported as 2026-08-01] A fresh search reported a statement of hers criticizing provisions in the next defense authorization bill that would fund joint defense work with Israel and integrate Israeli systems, research and supply chains with the American military, which she is said to have called unprecedented and, set against cuts to food assistance and Medicare, totally unacceptable to West Virginia taxpayers. The two addresses cited are on a social platform and both return an error to us, so nothing from it is quoted and it is not on the card. If it can be opened, it is a directly on-point statement and would change this card.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located on U.S. humanitarian funding, the aid pipeline, or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Her two-state sentence is about recognition, not about money, and is not read as a funding position.
Characterization of the conflict
- Nothing located that can be opened beyond the two-state sentence above.
- [Unconfirmed, reported as 2026-03-02] A fresh search reported remarks of hers on the human cost of the escalation with Iran, framed in scriptural terms. The page cited is a news round-up hosted on the incumbent senator's own website; it opens but serves only navigation to us, not the article body, so her words could not be read. She is the incumbent's opponent, so a round-up on that host is in any case used with care: nothing from it is quoted here.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- [Position, read 2026-08-18] Her platform page, verified word for word: "I will demand accountability for American funds and assets to ensure they are spent in a Constitutional manner requiring audits of the Defense department, foreign and corporate payments, investment and gifts to all elected officials." Undated, as above.
- Her line about candidates not taking money from foreign governments or their political action committees is a campaign-finance position. It is not a position on U.S. weapons or funding and is not presented as one.
Safety and antisemitism (context)
- Nothing located.
Race and status context
- Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia, running against the incumbent and two others, per Ballotpedia's race page and her Ballotpedia profile. The incumbent has her own card in this batch and her record is not used here.
- Everything in scope on this record that can be read comes from her own campaign site. No independent coverage of these positions was located that opens to us, and she has no legislative record against which to check them.
- Her tracked vote cells are all not-in-office.
Also in this race: Shelley Moore Capito (Republican), Rio Phillips (Independent), S. Marshall Wilson (Other) · All West Virginia candidates.
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