Does Kyrsten Sinema Support Israel?

Tal Feldman Feb 26, 2025 4 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, yes. Kyrsten Sinema, who served as U.S. Senator for Arizona from 2019 to January 2025 and now works as a senior advisor at the law firm Hogan Lovells, has a long, consistent, well-documented record of public support for Israel. That record includes AIPAC engagement going back to her first year in Congress, a July 2023 visit to Israel, a bipartisan bill freezing Iranian assets after October 7, repeated "I stand firmly with Israel" statements, a vote for anti-BDS legislation, and attendance at (not a boycott of) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's July 2024 joint address to Congress. She is not Jewish (she was raised Mormon and now describes her religious affiliation as none), but she has described her support for Israel as long-standing and personal, tied partly to Arizona's Jewish community.

What Kyrsten Sinema has actually said and done

2013: As a freshman member of the House, Sinema traveled to Israel and the Palestinian territories with a bipartisan congressional delegation, then spoke about the trip at an Arizona State University AIPAC-affiliated student event, according to the Arizona State Press.
March 25, 2019: As a newly elected Senator, Sinema spoke at the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., a session carried by C-SPAN.
February 5, 2019: Sinema voted yes on final Senate passage of S.1, the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act, which included the Combating BDS Act encouraging state and local anti-boycott measures against Israel. The bill passed the Senate 77-23 but was not taken up by the House, per Congress.gov.
April 2023: In an interview with Jewish Insider, Sinema said one component of Israel's proposed judicial overhaul, letting the Knesset override the Supreme Court, would cause "a complete breakdown of separation of powers," while also saying that judicial reform in some form "seems fairly obvious" as needed. This nuance is documented independently by the American Jewish Congress.
July 2023: Sinema visited Israel and met with the Israel Defense Forces to study tunnel-detection technology, later citing that trip as informing U.S. efforts against smuggling tunnels on the Arizona border, according to a statement from her Senate office.
October 2023: Following the October 7 Hamas attack, Sinema issued a statement condemning the attacks, saying she "stands firmly with Israel and her right to defend herself," and introduced the bipartisan Revoke Iranian Funding Act to freeze roughly $6 billion in Iranian assets that had been held in Qatar.
July 24, 2024: On the day of Netanyahu's joint address to Congress, Sinema issued a statement calling Israel "a beacon of hope for the Jewish community in Arizona and across the world" and again saying she "stands firmly with Israel." Unlike the dozens of Democrats who boycotted the speech, Sinema was not among them.
January 2025: Sinema left the Senate after declining to seek reelection in 2024 (Ruben Gallego won her seat) and joined the law firm Hogan Lovells as a senior advisor on AI and regulatory issues, per LGBTQ Nation. No public break with her pro-Israel record has surfaced since she left office.

Not Jewish, but a consistent advocate

Sinema is not Jewish. She was raised Mormon and has described her current religious affiliation as none, so her advocacy for Israel is not rooted in personal religious identity. Instead, it has been expressed through legislation, floor votes, official statements, and direct visits, and she has frequently framed it around Arizona's Jewish constituents and her long relationship with AIPAC. Throughout her time in the House and Senate, she was consistently counted among the more hawkishly pro-Israel members of the Senate Democratic caucus, and later as an independent, a stance she has said predates her time in office. Her one notable point of nuance, concern over a specific override mechanism in Israel's 2023 judicial overhaul debate, was a position shared by many mainstream pro-Israel American officials who distinguished between supporting Israel and holding views on the details of its internal democratic institutions. No boycott participation, BDS sympathy, or anti-Israel votes turned up in the public record.

The bottom line

Kyrsten Sinema has a clear, well-documented, consistent record of supporting Israel across her House and Senate career: AIPAC ties, a 2023 visit and IDF meetings, a post-October 7 bill targeting Iranian funding, repeated statements standing with Israel's right to defend itself, a vote for anti-BDS legislation, and attendance at Netanyahu's 2024 congressional address while many colleagues boycotted it. Her only qualifying nuance was concern about one specific mechanism in Israel's proposed judicial overhaul, not opposition to Israel itself. Nothing in the public record through July 2026 shows any shift since she left the Senate in January 2025.

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Last updated July 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.