US senator introduces bill to redefine occupied West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria'
US Senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill that seeks to eliminate the federal use of the term West Bank and instead implement the use of “Judea and Samaria”, claiming the terminology aligns with Israel’s historical and biblical claims to the territory.
Judea and Samaria is the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank.
The proposed legislation mirrors a House bill introduced earlier this year by Representatives Claudia Tenney, Randy Weber, and Anthony D’Esposito.
If enacted, the measure would remove all references to “West Bank” from US government documents, replacing them with the biblical name.
“The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria go back thousands of years. The US should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel,” Cotton said in a statement.
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US senator introduces bill to redefine occupied West Bank as 'Judea and Samaria'
