tigation at the International Criminal Court, the 
Secretary of State should close the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization Mission office in the United 
States; and 
(6) it is in the national security interests of the 
United States to remove the PLO office from Wash-
ington, DC. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITIONS REGARDING THE PLO UNDER THE 
ANTI-TERRORISM ACT OF 1987. 
Section 1003 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 (22 
U.S.C. 5202) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘It shall be unlawful’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) WAIVER.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, including section 604 of the Foreign Relations Au-
thorization Act, Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107–228), 
the President may waive for a period of not more than 
6 months the provisions of subsection (a) if the President 
determines and certifies in writing to Congress, no less 
than 45 days before the waiver is to take effect, that— 
‘‘(1)(A) the Palestinians have not, on or after 
April 1, 2015, obtained in the United Nations or 
any specialized agency thereof the same standing as 
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member states or full membership as a state outside 
an agreement negotiated between Israel and the Pal-
estinians; 
‘‘(B) the Palestinians have officially ceased to 
be members of the International Criminal Court 
(ICC) and have withdrawn from the Rome Statute; 
‘‘(C) any preliminary examination or ongoing 
investigation against Israel, the Government of 
Israel, the Israeli Armed or Security Forces, or any 
Israeli national initiated by, or on behalf of, the Pal-
estinians, or referred to the ICC by a state party, 
the United Nations Security Council, or a Pre-Trial 
Chamber has been withdrawn and terminated; 
‘‘(D) the PLO and the Palestinian Authority no 
longer provide any financial award, payment, or sal-
ary to Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israel 
who have committed terrorist attacks, or their fami-
lies; and 
‘‘(E) the PLO and the Palestinian Authority no 
longer engage in a pattern of incitement against the 
United States or Israel; or 
‘‘(2) the Palestinians have entered into a final 
negotiated peace agreement with, and have ceased 
all hostilities against, Israel. 
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‘‘(c) DEFINITION.—In subsection (b)(1)(E), the term 
‘incitement’ means— 
‘‘(1) statements, media, communication, or 
other activities against any religion, ethnicity, or na-
tionality; 
‘‘(2) advocacy, endorsement, or glorification of 
violence, martyrdom, or terrorism; or 
‘‘(3) endorsement, glorification, honor, or other 
memorialization of any person or group that has ad-
vocated, sponsored, or committed acts of terrorism, 
including the naming after or dedication to such per-
son or group of any school, community center, camp, 
stadium, public square, street, land, landmark, wa-
terway, or other facility.’’. 
Æ 
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