A pro-settler lobbying group is quietly pushing American state and federal governments to back West Bank settlements, which is bad news for Palestinians and critics of Israel's expansion.

• A new group calling itself "the AIPAC of Judea and Samaria," run by West Bank settlers and based in New York and Miami, is lobbying state by state.
• Tennessee just passed a law replacing "West Bank" with "Judea and Samaria" in all state documents, and the group wants other states to follow.
• Trump scrapped a Biden order that let the U.S. freeze the assets of settlers who attack Palestinians; a bill to bring it back has 150 co-sponsors but is stuck in committee.
• That committee is chaired by Brian Mast of Florida, who is blocking it from a floor vote.
• Sanctions are slowly being restarted in Europe now that Hungary's Viktor Orban, who had blocked them, lost his election.

Outlook: Settler-backed lobbying will keep spreading through U.S. states while sanctions efforts stay stalled in Congress and inch forward in Europe.