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JD Vance’s Record on Israel and Antisemitism
January 8, 2026
What You Need to Know About JD Vance on Israel and Antisemitism:
Vice President JD Vance holds extreme and dangerous views on issues of concern to Jewish Americans. He is next in line for the presidency and a potential Republican presidential nominee in 2028, so it is important that we understand where he stands.
- Vance promotes antisemitism and racism.
- Vance defended the inclusion of antisemites in the Republican Party at the Turning Point USA conference in December 2025.
- In December 2025, Vance absurdly claimed that stopping immigration is the best way to curb antisemitism in the U.S.
- In October 2025, Vance attempted to minimize the seriousness of a racist and antisemitic Young Republican (18-40 year olds) group chat.
- Vance defended Trump’s 2024 statement that Jewish Americans who did not vote for Trump were disloyal, calling Trump’ accusation “reasonable.”
- Vance refused to denounce Tucker Carlson in 2024 for praising and airing the views of a Holocaust revisionist who falsely claimed that the Nazis’ destruction of European Jewry was not an intentional act of premeditated genocide.
- In 2022 Vance said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene did “nothing wrong” in appearing at a white nationalist conference organized by Nick Fuentes that even some Republican leaders objected to.
- Vance has opposed aid to Israel and promotes policies that are harmful to Israel.
- Vance voted against the post-October 7 $14 billion emergency aid package to Israel that included $14 billion in emergency aid to Israel twice, on February 13, 2024.
- After Republicans defeated it on February 23, he voted against the package again on April 23, 2024, when it did pass, with most Republicans voting for it.
- Vance continues to lead the Republican Party toward a more isolationist approach to foreign policy. This position weakens the U.S.’s post-WW II role as the leading defender of democracy and stability and puts Israel and global Jewry at greater risk.
- Vance does not share Jewish values on other key issues.
- Vance admitted that he falsely claimed that Haitians were eating pets in Ohio after his rhetoric inspired violence against that community.
- Vance supports a ban on abortion in nearly all instances and has called to “end abortion.” In 2021, when asked if he supports abortion in instances of rape or incest, he stated, “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
- Vance supports voter suppression laws and believes in expanding unnecessarily strict policies, including “voter ID, signature verification on absentee ballots, and an end to mass mail-in voting.”
- Vance refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. He said, “If I had been vice president [in January 2021], I would have told the states, like Pennsylvania, Georgia and so many others, that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the U.S. Congress should have fought over it from there. That is the legitimate way to deal with an election that a lot of folks, including me, think had a lot of problems in 2020.”
- Vance diminished the violence of January 6, stating that “a lot of folks in the Democratic Party act as if January the 6th was the scariest moment of their lives….look, Jan. 6 was a bad day. It was a riot. But the idea that Donald Trump endangered anyone’s lives when he told them to protest peacefully, it’s just absurd.”
- Vance opposes common sense gun safety measures, including a bipartisan bill that expanded background checks and implemented red flag laws.
In the 2016 Presidential election, Vance opposed Trump, including calling him “America’s Hitler.” We’ll just leave that there.
Click here ot read Donald Trump’s record on antisemitism.