Overview
- The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, named Britain’s Palestine Action a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, immediately blocking any assets the group holds in U.S. jurisdiction and barring U.S. persons from dealings with it.
- The sanctions package also listed Italy‑based Autistici/Inventati and Masar Badil and forms part of the administration’s stated campaign to target what it calls violent “far‑left” networks.
- The designation has extraterritorial reach: foreign banks or intermediaries that knowingly help the group risk losing access to the U.S. financial system, and individual supporters face asset freezes and lifetime visa bans.
- Palestine Action and civil‑liberties groups denounced the move as an attack on protest and free speech, and co‑founder Huda Ammori said the U.S. label could hinder her pending challenge to the U.K. proscription at the Supreme Court.
- Britain proscribed Palestine Action in July 2025 after break‑ins and damage at defense sites, thousands of arrests have followed, and analysts say the U.S. action now creates coordinated transatlantic legal pressure that could chill direct‑action activism and complicate ongoing court appeals.