Mark Dubowitz tweeted the following:
Warning: Biden-Harris administration about to launch an economic warfare campaign against Israel. On February 1st, they issued Executive Order 14115, establishing first-ever U.S. sanctions program explicitly targeting an ally. They intend a major escalation in the lame duck.
“This dynamic may explain why the Biden administration created a sanctions regime against Israel. The rapidly expanding blacklist—against any Israeli deemed an obstacle to peace—may be the most dangerous innovation in U.S.-Israel policy. Harris staffer Ilan Goldenberg reportedly played an enthusiastic role in developing the sanctions. He’s now her Jewish outreach director.” [LINK]
To be clear for those who don’t understand its implications. The scope of Executive Order 14115 is dangerously broad. It is not confined to individuals in the West Bank or to acts of violence. Instead, it empowers the administration to target anyone deemed by the U.S. government as obstructing “peace”—a term open to wide interpretation. This means that civil society actors, political figures, non-governmental organizations that disagree with the administration’s preferred peace framework, notably the two-state solution, could find themselves subject to sanctions. It could also be applied to financial institutions, companies and philanthropists supporting Jewish Israelis in the West Bank.
The “violent settlers” marketing of the EO is a smokescreen to expand the financial war against many peaceful Israelis and Americans who have a different perspective — and think that a “peaceful two-state solution” will neither be peaceful nor a solution.
An Israeli mother of eight from the Negev, a region often targeted by Hamas rocket fire, was sanctioned by the Biden administration under this EO. She organized protests against aid to Gaza. The administration also sanctioned her NGO, destroying its ability to function.
Biden-Harris admin also sanctioned Lions’ Den, a Palestinian terrorist organization under this EO, instead of EO 13224 (used for terror designations). In other words, an Israeli mother with a peaceful NGO is now equivalent to deadly Palestinian terror org. [LINK]
Some of the best work on this is by @EVKontorovich who wrote this in August: Biden’s Unconstitutional Sanctions on Supporters of Israel
Pray this current administration only has until 01/20/2025 to mess up Israel and the United States any further.
Our two countries are both at risk.