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The bill strengthens U.S. leverage, transparency, and legal clarity to deter and punish settlement-related violence and protect civilians, but does so at the cost of increased compliance and enforcement burdens, potential diplomatic friction, and risks to civil liberties and humanitarian engagement.
People threatened by extremist settler violence (and U.S. policymakers working on the conflict) will be treated as a U.S. national-security concern, enabling stronger diplomatic pressure and signaling support for a viable two-state solution to protect civilians and promote long-term regional stability.
Foreign individuals and entities tied to violence or dispossession in the West Bank can be blocked from U.S. financial markets, denied visas, and prohibited from receiving funds or services from U.S. persons, reducing their access to U.S. resources and the risk of U.S.-linked support for harmful actors.
Congress and the public will receive regular reporting on who is sanctioned and why, improving transparency, enabling congressional oversight, and prompting corrective action if implementation or enforcement lags.
Formally characterizing extremist settler actions as a national-security threat and imposing sanctions could heighten diplomatic tensions with Israel and its supporters, complicating U.S. relationships with allied governments and state actors.
U.S. banks, businesses, and taxpayers could face substantial compliance costs, transaction disruptions, and potential downstream budgetary or policy consequences as sanctions, broader jurisdictional rules, and enforcement increase operational and legal burdens.
Broad or imprecise application of visa bars, sanction designations, and public naming could disrupt legitimate travel, diplomacy, and commercial activity, and raise civil liberties, privacy, and due-process concerns for immigrants, U.S. persons, and named foreign nationals.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Requires the President to sanction foreign persons tied to West Bank violence or dispossession with IEEPA asset blocks and visa/entry bans, plus 90-day congressional reporting.
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
Requires the President to impose sanctions on foreign persons determined to have engaged in or materially supported violent acts, forced displacement, property destruction, terrorism-related activity, or leadership/control of entities committing such acts in the West Bank. Sanctions include blocking assets under IEEPA and immigration restrictions (visa ineligibility and automatic revocation), with narrow exceptions and waivers and recurring reports to Congress every 90 days listing designated persons. Defines covered terms, requires Treasury (with State consultation) to report implementation and names of sanctioned persons to congressional committees within 90 days of enactment and every 90 days thereafter, and grounds the sanctions authority in existing statutory authorities (50 U.S.C. 1701 and specified immigration statutes).