Jeffries opens door to West Bank violence sanctions bill if

Hakeem Jeffries just handed his party’s fringe a promise they’ll cash in the moment they retake the House. The West Bank Violence Prevention Act sounds reasonable until you read it. It authorizes sanctions against any foreign individual found to be “endangering” stability there. That means American power aimed at Israel’s civilians and soldiers, while the Palestinian Authority gets a pass for the terrorism it funds and refuses to stop.

This is not a good-faith effort at peace. It’s an election-year donation to the squad, dressed up in legislative language. Democrats know they can’t win on the border or the economy, so they’re promising to punish the Jewish state to fire up their base. Never mind that the West Bank has been the staging ground for Hamas attacks and that Israeli families have been murdered in their kitchens. Nadler and Jeffries want to put those families on the same legal footing as the terrorists who target them.

If this bill were actually about violence, it would name names. It would go after the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades. Instead it’s deliberately broad — sweeping American foreign policy into a legal blender and hoping something anti-Israel comes out.

Americans sent troops to stand between Israel and its enemies, not to sanction Israel’s defenders. Jeffries can posture all he wants in Brooklyn. But the minute this bill becomes law, it tells every ally that the United States doesn’t have their back when the mob in Congress gets loud. We should hope voters remember that in November.