Bill > HJR241

This joint resolution, originating from the Alabama Legislature, recommends that state government entities cease using the term "West Bank" and instead use "Judea and Samaria" in official materials. The resolution explains that "Judea and Samaria" are considered historically and biblically accurate names for the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people, and that the term "West Bank" was a political designation used by Jordan following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The resolution further states that Israel liberated this land from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War and that continuing to use "West Bank" obscures the Jewish people's historical, religious, and legal connections to the land, contradicting Alabama's long-standing support for a Jewish state.