(A) is a flagrant violation of international 
law and a prohibited act of aggression under 
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter; 
(B) is contrary to the values of the Amer-
ican people and the long-standing policy of the 
United States to support and promote equality, 
human rights, and dignity for both Palestinians 
and Israelis; and 
(C) undermines United States national se-
curity interests in the Middle East as well as 
diplomatic efforts by the United States and the 
international community to achieve a just and 
lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinian 
people; 
(2) promoting human rights, human dignity, 
and democratic rights for all Palestinians and 
Israelis are foreign policy priorities of the United 
States; 
(3) the United States rejects any undemocratic 
system or act of aggression in which Israel unilater-
ally exercises permanent rule over a Palestinian peo-
ple denied self-determination and human rights; and 
(4) any annexation of the occupied West Bank 
by the Government of Israel is condemned by Con-
gress as the illegal annexation of occupied territory 
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and should not be recognized as legitimate by the 
United States. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION AGAINST UNITED STATES RECOGNI-
TION OF THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT’S CLAIM 
OF SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE WEST BANK. 
(a) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the 
United States not to recognize any claim by the Govern-
ment of Israel of sovereignty over any part of the occupied 
West Bank including its airspace. 
(b) PROHIBITION.—No Federal department or agen-
cy may take any action or extend any assistance in a man-
ner that extends or implies United States recognition of 
such a claim of sovereignty in violation of international 
humanitarian law or customary international law. 
(c) WAIVER.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The President may waive 
the prohibition in subsection (b) on a case-by-case 
basis beginning 30 days after the date on which the 
President certifies to Congress that such waiver is 
vital to the national security interests of the United 
States. 
(2) JOINT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL.—A 
waiver certified pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not 
take effect if, during the 30-day period described in 
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paragraph (1), there is enacted a joint resolution 
disapproving such waiver. 
(d) FUNDING LIMITATION.—No Federal funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available to the ‘‘Foreign 
military financing program’’ account, or otherwise author-
ized to be appropriated or made available to carry out sec-
tion 23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763), 
may be made available to deploy or support the deploy-
ment of personnel, training, services, lethal materials, 
equipment, facilities, logistics, transportation, or any other 
activity in territory in the West Bank unilaterally annexed 
by Israel, or to facilitate or support the unilateral annex-
ation of such territory. 
(e) CERTIFICATION.—Not later than September 30, 
2021, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall 
certify to the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate one of the following with respect to the pre-
ceding fiscal year: 
(1) A certification that none of the funds obli-
gated or expended in the previous fiscal year for as-
sistance to the Government of Israel have been used 
by such Government to support personnel, training, 
lethal materials, equipment, facilities, logistics, 
transportation or any other activity that supports or 
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is associated with any of the activities prohibited 
under subsection (d). 
(2) A certification that funds obligated or ex-
pended in the previous fiscal year have supported or 
been associated with an activity prohibited under 
subsection (d), along with a report describing in de-
tail the amount of such funds used by the Govern-
ment of Israel in violation of such subsection and 
each activity supported by such funds. 
Æ 
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