US targets Palestine Action in counterterrorism effort against 'far-left' groups
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the designation cuts off US assets and business ties as Washington expands pressure on far-left groups.
- On Wednesday, the United States Treasury Department designated Palestine Action as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, placing the group on Washington's global terrorism sanctions list.
- Founded in 2020, the group has centered its campaign on disrupting organizations it accuses of supporting Israel, particularly defense manufacturer Elbit Systems, through facility break-ins and property damage.
- The United Kingdom previously proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organization in July 2025, citing incidents like the June 2025 break-in at RAF Brize Norton where activists sprayed aircraft with paint.
- Supporters and civil liberties groups argue the terrorism designation threatens the right to protest, while the organization rejects the label, describing its activities as a campaign against arms trade with Israel.
- The Supreme Court will hear an appeal against the British ban, determining whether the United Kingdom's decision to proscribe the group as a terrorist organization was lawful.
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US designates UK-based Palestine Action ‘terrorist organisation’
The United States has designated the UK-based Palestine Action as a “specially designated global terrorist” organisation and imposed sanctions on the group. The US government said the sanctions were linked to the group’s alleged support for an act of terrorism. Palestine Action was founded in 2020 and is currently challenging a ban imposed on it by the British government. The ban has resulted in thousands of arrests and has been criticised by ri…
US targets Palestine Action in counterterrorism effort against 'far-left' groups
The move follows Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s push to focus counterterrorism efforts on “far-left terror,” sparking Democratic concerns over the politicization of the fight against extremism.
Palestine Action: United States Classifies Pro-Palestinian Group as "Foreign Terrorist Organization"
In addition to the pro-Palestinian movement – already considered "terrorist" by the British government – the U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the extreme-left Italian group Autistici/Inventati.
There is also an Italian name, and decidedly singular, in the new offensive of the US Treasury against what Washington defines as terrorist networks of the extreme left: Autistici/Inventati. The Italian collective has been included among the three organizations hit by American sanctions together with the British Palestine Action and the transnational organization Masar Badil. The left extremists, [...] L'articolo The US sanction three groups of …
Also hit by the measure of the State Department and the US Treasury is the technological collective "Autistics/Inventeds" which services are used by the most active and violent Antifa cells in the United States and around the world.
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