Short answer: No, not in any straightforward sense. As of August 2026, Anne Marie Slaughter's public record on Israel is one of sustained, critical policy engagement rather than support. The international relations scholar and former State Department official has proposed pressuring Israel over settlements, criticized its conduct of the Gaza war, and floated statehood models that go well beyond a standard two-state framework.
What Anne Marie Slaughter has actually said and done
September 2010: While serving as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department under Hillary Clinton, Slaughter emailed Clinton proposing a "Pledge for Palestine" fundraising campaign modeled on Warren Buffett's Giving Pledge, writing that it would have "a certain shaming effect" on Israelis over West Bank settlement building. The email surfaced publicly in January 2016 when the State Department released Clinton's archived correspondence, as The Times of Israel reported, with independent coverage from The Jerusalem Post.
March 2013: Slaughter published "A New-State Solution for Israel and Palestine" in Project Syndicate (also reprinted by Al Jazeera), proposing that Palestinians hold a right of return, that Israelis be permitted to purchase and settle land anywhere in the West Bank, and that Jerusalem remain undivided. She framed it as a creative reinvention of statehood rather than a strict territorial partition.
January 2016: The Jeb Bush presidential campaign publicly criticized Slaughter and Clinton over the 2010 settlement-shaming proposal, calling it evidence of anti-Israel bias inside Clinton's State Department. The Times of Israel covered the exchange.
January 2024: Slaughter published "Do Israelis and Palestinians Inhabit the Same World?" in Project Syndicate, arguing for a diplomatic approach that does not require either side to fully adopt the other's narrative of the conflict.
April 25, 2024: In The Washington Post, Slaughter argued for a people-centered rather than purely state-centered approach to ending the Gaza war and securing lasting peace.
June 2024: On X, Slaughter shared and praised an essay by writer Peter Maass addressing Gaza, alleged Israeli war crimes, and Jewish identity, calling it "a powerful and thoughtful piece."
Who is Anne Marie Slaughter, and where does she stand
Born September 27, 1958, in Charlottesville, Virginia, to a Belgian mother and American father, Slaughter is not Jewish; no family, religious, or cultural connection to Judaism or Israel appears in the public record. She built her career as a foreign-policy academic and official: former Dean of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, the first woman to serve as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department (2009 to 2011), and until mid-2026 president and CEO of the think tank New America, where she remains a senior advisor.
Her writing on Israel spans more than a decade and consistently centers on peace-process design rather than advocacy for or against Israel as a state. Her alternative statehood proposals read as sympathetic to Palestinian claims in some respects (right of return) while preserving Israeli settlement rights on others, which makes her difficult to slot into a simple pro- or anti-Israel category. Her sharpest documented criticism came through the 2010 State Department proposal to organize a global fundraising pledge explicitly designed to pressure Israel over settlement expansion, a plan Republican critics later cited as evidence of institutional bias. Her 2024 commentary on the Gaza war frames the conflict around civilian welfare and diplomatic reframing rather than taking a side, and her endorsement of the Maass essay shows continued engagement with, rather than celebration of, Israel's wartime conduct. No donations to Israeli organizations, boycott activity, or pro-Israel event appearances turned up in the public record; her role has consistently been that of a policy commentator, not an advocate for either side.
The bottom line
Anne Marie Slaughter is best described as a critical, process-focused voice on Israel rather than a supporter. Her record includes a State Department-era proposal explicitly designed to pressure and "shame" Israel over settlements, ongoing criticism of Israeli conduct during the Gaza war, and statehood proposals that grant significant concessions to Palestinian claims alongside continued Israeli settlement rights. Nothing in the record, donations, boycotts, event appearances, or personal ties, points to support for Israel or its policies.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
