Judea and Samaria or The West Bank? Which is the correct name?

Historical Revisionism eliminates truth and replaces it with agenda-based disinformation. This applies to historical facts, dates, and names. Proclaiming Justice to The Nations stands by Biblical and Historical Truth. Therefore, we must answer this question according to the tenets of our Mission Statement.

Judea and Samaria are not just names or political terms.

Using the words Judea and Samaria means connecting with truth and our shared Biblical past in the face of modern historic revisionism, which wipes out the Judeo-Christian heritage in the Holy Land and this Republic.

Judea and Samaria are the Biblical, geographic, historic, and legal names used for millennia to describe the mountain range overlooking Israel’s coast.
The term appears throughout the Bible. In fact, it is where most of the key biblical events took place. It is the very cradle of Judeo-Christian heritage.
Abraham bound Isaac in the hills of Bet El.

Abraham purchased the Cave of Machpelah to bury his wife Sarah in Hebron.

Jacob buried his wife Rachel in Bethlehem, where King David and Jesus were later born.

Upon returning to the Land from Egypt, Joshua erected an altar to G-d on Mount Ebal in Samaria.

The Tabernacle and the Capital of the Kingdom would sit in the Samarian town of Shiloh for generations.

And of course, in the heart of Judea, is Mount Moriah, the home of Two Holy Temples, the City of David, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many believe Jesus was crucified by the Romans, and the Garden Tomb, where He rose from the dead.

The oldest surviving maps featuring the terms Judea and Samaria are ancient, with regional designations dating back to Roman-era cartography, such as 1st–2nd century CE, often showing them as distinct, combined, or adjacent areas.

The League of Nations Mandate (1922), foundational to UN charter principles (Article 80), recognized the historical connection of the Jewish People to the land, which included Judea and Samaria.

The United Nations historically used “Judea and Samaria” in official documents to describe the mountainous regions north and south of Jerusalem, notably in the 1947 UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181), which referred to “the hill country of Samaria and Judea”. The terms were common in Mandatory and early UN Reports until the1967 War.

The term West Bank was only adopted after the Jordanian Army illegally seized and occupied and annexed Judea and Samaria between the years 1948-1967. The only two countries on earth to formally accept this illegal annexation were Pakistan and Great Britain.

The term West Bank is an afront to our shared history in the Jewish State and in Tennessee, the Volunteer State.

From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, our forefathers founded towns with names like Shiloh and Bethel, because it is not just Jewish history – it is our American history.

As the United States and Israel wage a war for freedom, survival, and liberty, hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart – now would be the perfect time for PJTN to pay homage to our deep Biblical, historic bonds and support the use of the names Judea and Samaria, which our Founding Fathers would have recognized and used with pride and devotion.