Title: Safeguard Israel Act of 2017
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Safeguard Israel Act of 2017
This bill prohibits the U.S. government from making any voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations (U.N.) or any U.N. organization until the President certifies to Congress that Security Council Resolution 2334 has been repealed.
Security Council Resolution 2334 characterizes Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as illegal and demands cessation of settlement activities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 107 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 107

 To prohibit voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations 
until the President certifies to Congress that United Nations Security 
               Council Resolution 2334 has been repealed.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 12, 2017

Mr. Cruz (for himself, Mr. Graham, Mr. Risch, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Rounds, 
Mr. Thune, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Daines, 
    Mr. Roberts, Mr. Lee, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Wicker, Mr. 
 Cochran, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. McCain, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. McConnell, and Mr. 
Blunt) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
                 to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit voluntary or assessed contributions to the United Nations 
until the President certifies to Congress that United Nations Security 
               Council Resolution 2334 has been repealed.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safeguard Israel Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) On December 23, 2016, President Barack Obama instructed 
        United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations 
        Samantha Power to abstain from United Nations Security Council 
        Resolution 2334, which condemns our close friend and ally 
        Israel.
            (2) The failure to veto United Nations Security Council 
        Resolution 2334, which attempts to prejudge the basis for 
        negotiations, predetermine the outcome of negotiations, and 
        dictate terms and conditions on this issue, was an abandonment 
        of long-standing policy of the United States and previous 
        commitments made to Israel.
            (3) United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 falsely 
        claims that Israel's sovereignty over the eastern part of 
        Jerusalem and Jewish communities in the West Bank are illegal 
        under international law, and that the Old City of Jerusalem, 
        along with the Temple Mount, the holiest site for the Jewish 
        people, and the Western Wall are ``occupied Palestinian 
        territory''.
            (4) United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 
        encourages the International Criminal Court to open an 
        illegitimate formal investigation against Israel.
            (5) United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 will 
        help to strengthen the Palestinian diplomatic, economic, and 
        legal warfare campaign against Israel, particularly because of 
        a paragraph that calls upon states to make a distinction in 
        their dealings with Israel between pre-1967 Israel and Israel 
        beyond the 1967 lines, encouraging boycotts, divestments, and 
        sanctions against Israel.
            (6) Senate Resolution 6 and House Resolution 11 (115th 
        Congress) object to United Nations Security Council Resolution 
        2334 and rebuke the Obama Administration for permitting the 
        adoption of this biased, anti-Israel resolution.
            (7) On December 16, 2016, outgoing United Nations 
        Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon admitted the United Nations bias 
        against Israel in his final address to the United Nations 
        Security Council when he stated, ``Decades of political 
        maneuverings have created a disproportionate volume of 
        resolutions, reports, and conferences criticizing Israel.''.
            (8) The United Nations passes more resolutions condemning 
        Israel than any other country in the world.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the United States needs to hold the United Nations 
        accountable for its hostile actions to delegitimize Israel; and
            (2) Congress should respond with concrete consequences to 
        the United Nations for the adoption of United Nations Security 
        Council Resolution 2334 and the overt bias of the United 
        Nations against Israel.

SEC. 3. RESTRICTION ON FUNDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS.

    The United States Government may not make any voluntary or assessed 
contributions to the United Nations or any United Nations organization, 
including any United Nations specialized agency, fund, or program and 
any other body or entity affiliated with the United Nations or founded 
by a United Nations treaty, convention, or agreement, until the 
President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) has been 
repealed.

SEC. 4. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DEFINED.

    In this Act, the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' 
means--
            (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
        Appropriations, and the Committee on Homeland Security and 
        Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and
            (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
        Appropriations, and the Committee on Oversight and Government 
        Reform of the House of Representatives.
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