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Official title: To prevent violence in the West Bank and authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to any foreign person endangering United States national security and undermining prospects for a two-state solution by committing illegal violent acts.
Introduced April 28, 2025 by Jerrold Lewis Nadler · Last progress April 28, 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools and transparency to deter extremist settler violence and cut off financial support, but does so at the cost of heightened diplomatic friction, increased compliance and administrative costs, and meaningful civil‑liberties and privacy risks from broad sanctions and reporting authorities.
U.S. policymakers and civilians in the region: the bill treats extremist settler violence as a U.S. national-security concern and combines that policy priority with sanctions and visa restrictions to increase U.S. leverage to deter violence and protect civilians.
U.S. financial system and taxpayers: the bill blocks assets, bans U.S. transactions with designated foreign persons, and prohibits U.S. persons from providing funds or services, reducing the ability of harmful actors to access U.S. markets and resources.
Foreign individuals engaged in specified harmful conduct: the bill makes such persons inadmissible and ineligible for U.S. visas, preventing their entry and reducing their ability to operate from or travel to the U.S.
U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic relations: formally labeling settler violence as a national-security threat and imposing sanctions could heighten tensions with Israel and its supporters and strain bilateral relationships.
U.S. citizens, residents, and foreign nationals: broad visa bars, visa revocations, and public naming of designated persons risk sweeping in individuals with tenuous or indirect ties, harming travel, diplomatic engagement, privacy, and due-process protections.
Banks, multinational firms, and small businesses: the broadened definitions and prohibitions (including coverage of foreign branches) increase compliance obligations, legal exposure, and transaction disruptions, raising costs for the private sector and possibly passing costs to consumers.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires the President to sanction foreign persons involved in violent or dispossessing conduct in the West Bank via asset-blocking and visa/entry restrictions, with recurring Treasury reports to Congress.
Imposes U.S. economic and immigration sanctions on foreign persons the President determines are involved in extremist settler violence, forced displacement, property destruction, terrorism-related activity, or material support for such actors in the West Bank. Requires asset-blocking under IEEPA and visa/entry prohibitions (with narrow exceptions and discretionary waivers), and regular Treasury reporting to Congress on enforcement and designated individuals or entities. Sets findings that such violence threatens regional stability and U.S. national security, defines key terms, and creates a 90-day reporting cadence for implementation details and names of sanctioned persons.