Does Mike Pence Support Israel?

Tal Feldman Feb 27, 2025 3 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, yes: Mike Pence is one of the most consistent pro-Israel voices in American politics. He has publicly defended the U.S.-Israel alliance for decades on evangelical Christian Zionist grounds, called anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism as Vice President, visited Israel repeatedly (including a January 2024 trip to kibbutzim hit on October 7 and hostage families), publishes op-eds defending Israel against rising conservative isolationism, and condemned an alleged July 2026 arson targeting an Israeli flag in his own Indiana hometown. There is no boycott participation and no personal Jewish-identity connection; his support is explicitly framed as Christian and strategic, not ancestral.

What Mike Pence has actually said and done

January 22, 2018: As Vice President, Pence told the Knesset that the U.S. embassy would move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, affirming Jerusalem as Israel's capital. His speech was disrupted when Arab-Israeli lawmakers protested, according to The Jerusalem Post.
March 2, 2020: Speaking at AIPAC's policy conference, Pence declared it official Trump administration policy that "anti-Zionism is antisemitism," part of a broader push to root out antisemitism, as reported by Jewish Journal.
January 4, 2024: As a former vice president who had ended his 2024 presidential bid two months earlier, Pence visited Kfar Aza and other kibbutzim devastated on October 7 and met with families of hostages, saying he was more determined than ever to be a voice defending Israel's right to defend itself, per The Times of Israel.
April 11, 2024: Pence delivered the keynote address at Grove City College's Institute for Faith & Freedom conference on confronting antisemitism, discussing the "rising tide of antisemitism" in the country and his post-October 7 trip to Israel, as covered by the Butler Eagle.
November 21, 2025: In a Fox News op-ed, Pence defended the U.S.-Israel alliance against rising isolationist sentiment inside the conservative movement, writing "Israel's cause is our cause" and "there is no place in the conservative movement for antisemitism," grounding the alliance in shared democratic values, Founding-era history, and current security cooperation against Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. Read the piece at Fox News.
July 13, 2026: After an alleged arson targeting a barn displaying an Israeli flag caused about $150,000 in damage in Pence's hometown of Zionsville, Indiana, Pence publicly condemned it as "absolutely despicable," saying "there can be no tolerance in America for antisemitism or political acts of violence." Reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, with ongoing coverage at The Times of Israel.
Late July 2026: Advancing American Freedom, the policy group Pence founded, released its Independence Index, an annual report tracking dozens of national indicators; the group has separately continued to advocate for a robust U.S.-Israel alliance and Israel normalization agreements, according to RealClearPolitics.

Christian Zionism, not Jewish identity

Pence's pro-Israel record is long and well documented across his career: Congress, the vice presidency, his 2024 presidential campaign, and his current work leading Advancing American Freedom. The consistent throughline is Christian Zionism. Pence, an evangelical Christian, has said repeatedly, including at Christians United for Israel's summit, that his support for Israel flows from his faith, not from any personal Jewish ancestry or identity. He has no Jewish heritage; the connection is theological and political, not ethnic. On the boycott dimension, there is no record of Pence participating in or endorsing any boycott of Israel. The opposite is true: he has actively fought BDS-style positions and made "anti-Zionism is antisemitism" formal Trump-era U.S. policy. His most notable friction point with parts of his own political coalition is recent, from 2025 into 2026: a wing of the "America First" conservative movement has grown skeptical of continued U.S. support for Israel, and Pence has positioned himself explicitly against that isolationist drift, making the U.S.-Israel alliance a defining plank of his post-vice-presidency political identity.

The bottom line

The public record through July 2026 confirms Mike Pence is a strong, consistent, and vocal supporter of Israel, grounded in Christian Zionism and strategic alliance arguments, with no boycott activity, no Jewish ancestry, and recent action, his July 2026 condemnation of the Zionsville flag arson, reinforcing that the stance is current, not just historical.

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