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Introduced April 28, 2025 by Jerrold Lewis Nadler · Last progress April 28, 2025
The bill strengthens U.S. leverage—through sanctions, travel restrictions, and a diplomatic commitment to a two-state approach—to deter West Bank violence and increase oversight, but it elevates the conflict to a national-security posture that risks diplomatic strain, collateral harms to innocent people and businesses, higher costs, and added administrative and legal complications.
U.S. personnel abroad, state governments, and immigrant communities: U.S. foreign policy will prioritize diplomatic measures and reassert support for a two-state solution, aiming to bolster regional stability and protect Americans overseas.
American taxpayers, border and law-enforcement authorities, and the public: Designations, asset freezes, transaction blocks, prohibitions on providing aid, and visa ineligibility will reduce the ability of foreign actors to finance or travel to carry out West Bank violence, lowering the risk that U.S. resources or entry points are exploited.
Taxpayers and federal agencies: Regular public reporting to Congress improves transparency and oversight of sanctions and implementation, and helps coordinate Treasury and State actions to identify enforcement gaps more quickly.
Americans (taxpayers) and U.S. partners: Labeling settler violence an "unusual and extraordinary" national-security threat elevates the conflict into a security frame that can expand executive authorities, risk escalation, strain relations with Israeli partners, and prompt higher military or security spending.
Immigrants, business owners, banks, and American companies: Broad asset freezes and blocking orders could strip owners, affiliates, or service providers of U.S. assets or banking access even for indirect or tenuous links, and U.S. persons and firms may face criminal or civil exposure for unknowingly receiving tainted funds, disrupting legitimate commerce.
Immigrant families and lawful travelers: Immediate visa ineligibility and cancellations can separate family members, impede travel, or bar people later found to have only tenuous or indirect connections to designated actors from entering the U.S.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires U.S. sanctions (asset blocking, transaction bans, visa/entry bars) on persons who engage in or support violent or dispossessing acts in the West Bank, with 90-day congressional reports.
Requires the President to impose asset-blocking and immigration restrictions on individuals and organizations that engage in, support, or lead violent or dispossessing actions in the West Bank, and demands recurring public reports to Congress naming sanctioned persons. It creates broad definitions for who can be sanctioned, establishes exceptions and limited waiver authority for entry restrictions, and requires Treasury and State to report on implementation every 90 days.