Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) led 15 other House Republicans in a letter to Scott Bessent, urging the U.S. Treasury secretary to review whether Ireland’s potential boycott of goods from Judea and Samaria violates U.S. law.
Simon Harris, the Irish minister of trade and foreign affairs, introduced legislation last month that would bar the import of goods originating from territories under Israeli administration, which Ireland considers “occupied,” including all of Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
Very few goods originating in those areas make their way to Ireland, but the latter government is weighing barring services from those areas as well.
“Ireland’s proposed boycott is a blatant attempt to isolate and delegitimize Israel on the world stage,” Tenney stated