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Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2020

Introduced: August 6, 2020 Introduced by: Booker, Cory A. Democratic · New Jersey See on congress.gov
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Strengthening Reporting of Actions Taken Against the Normalization of Relations with Israel Act of 2020

This bill requires the Department of State to include specified information concerning Arab-Israeli relations in the annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices. Such information shall include (1) the status of laws that punish individuals for people-to-people relations with Israelis (i.e., anti-normalization laws); (2) instances of prosecution or extrajudicial retribution against citizens or residents of Arab countries for calling for peace with Israel, visiting Israel, or engaging Israeli citizens in any country; and (3) evidence of steps taken by Arab governments toward permitting or encouraging people-to-people relations between their citizens or residents and Israeli citizens.

What's happening now August 6, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

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