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Introduced April 28, 2025 by Jerrold Lewis Nadler · Last progress April 28, 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. tools, clarity, and oversight to hold perpetrators of settler violence accountable and support a two-state outcome, but does so at the cost of increased diplomatic friction, compliance and administrative burdens, and risks to civil liberties and legitimate travel.
Civilians in the West Bank and U.S. foreign-policy aims: the bill explicitly treats extremist settler violence as a national-security concern and reaffirms U.S. support for a two-state solution, enabling stronger diplomatic pressure and policy focus to protect civilians and reduce displacement.
U.S. financial and immigration controls: the bill authorizes blocking assets, denying or revoking visas, and prohibiting U.S. persons from providing funds, goods, or services to designated foreign persons tied to violence or dispossession, reducing their access to U.S. markets and support.
Congress and the public: required regular reporting on who is sanctioned improves transparency and oversight, helping congressional committees monitor implementation and prompt corrective action if enforcement lags.
U.S. diplomacy and allied relationships: formally characterizing settler violence as a national-security threat and imposing sanctions could heighten diplomatic tensions with Israel and its supporters, complicating bilateral relations.
Banks, businesses, and taxpayers: broad asset-blocking, prohibition on dealings with designated persons, and inclusion of foreign branches increase compliance costs, risk of transaction disruptions, and potential legal liabilities for U.S. firms and financial institutions.
Individuals’ rights and legitimate travel/diplomacy: expansive visa bars, potential visa revocations for tenuous ties, a broad terrorism definition that could encompass politically motivated or nonviolent acts, and public naming of sanctioned persons risk wrongful penalties, privacy harms, and chilled civil liberties.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes the President to block assets and bar visas for foreign persons responsible for extremist violence, dispossession, or terrorism-linked acts in the West Bank and requires recurring Treasury reports.
Directs the President to impose economic and immigration sanctions on foreign persons responsible for or supporting extremist settler violence, forced displacement, property destruction, terrorism-related activity, or leadership of groups carrying out such acts in the West Bank. The sanctions include blocking assets and prohibiting transactions under IEEPA and making such persons inadmissible to the United States and ineligible for visas, with narrow exceptions and limited waiver authority. Requires the Treasury Secretary, consulting with the Secretary of State, to report to specified congressional committees on implementation — including the names of sanctioned persons — within 90 days of enactment and every 90 days after. The law also defines key terms used for enforcement and application of sanctions and immigration measures.