New York Rep. Claudia Tenney wants to rename Israel’s West Bank, Trump supports change

1.31.2025 8:00 p.m.

New York Rep. Claudia Tenney wants to rename Israel’s West Bank, Trump supports change

Perhaps Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY) felt emboldened by President Trump’s move to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, and restore the name of Alaska’s Mt. McKinley. Nevertheless, it’s not the first time that Tenney has introduced a bill to rename the West Bank. Tenney wants it to be called “Judea and Samaria.” The name of her proposed bill is “Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act.”

“We need to make sure that we don’t allow the language, the tradition, the history of Israel, to be weaponized by terms like ‘West Bank,’” Tenney said in a room of hundreds last week at the re-launch party of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus, according to The Media Line.

If passed, the bill will call for all official documents to use the names “Judea and Samaria” in place of West Bank.

“President Trump has said this is going to be a very priority task for him to get this done,” said Tenney. “It’s the beginning of us shifting the language, and what we’re doing and making sure that we always protect the historical homeland of the Jews, and that is in Israel, and Israel includes Judea and Samaria.”