The United States designated UK-based Palestine Action, Italy-based Autistici/Inventati and the pro-Palestinian organization Masar Badil as terrorist groups, extending the Trump administration’s campaign against movements it characterizes as violent and far-left. US officials said the listings were intended to deny support and financial resources to the three organizations.
State Department spokesperson Tommy Piggot applied the same “violent far-left” description to all three groups. Secretary of State Marco Rubio focused particularly on Autistici/Inventati, also called the A/I Collective, portraying it as a technology network used by violent Antifa networks operating in America and other countries. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would use economic measures to sever financial channels available to such organizations.
Palestine Action was established in 2020 and had already been banned by the British government. It was appealing that prohibition, which had resulted in thousands of arrests. Rights organizations have argued that the British measure criminalized dissent. The group states that it seeks to disrupt international involvement in Israel’s military system, and it became more visible after Israel began its campaign in Gaza following the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
Huda Ammori, a co-founder of Palestine Action, said the British ban and American designation threatened free expression and civil liberties. She defended the organization’s work as an effort to save lives by disrupting what she called the Israeli war machine, and accused Israel of genocide in Gaza with US support. Those statements represented the group’s position and were not established as findings in the supplied report.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry welcomed Washington’s action. It argued that terrorist groups had used political and humanitarian appearances to hide violence, attract young people and move illicit funds. The US designation therefore drew sharply opposing interpretations: American and Israeli officials presented it as a security and financial-enforcement step, while Palestine Action and rights advocates described the broader campaign as an attack on dissent.
President Donald Trump had directed his administration during his second term to pursue terrorist designations for organizations it labels far-left. The action against the three groups places Palestine Action’s pro-Palestinian activism alongside the A/I Collective’s technology role and Masar Badil under a common US security classification, although the supplied account offered fewer details about Masar Badil’s structure or alleged conduct.
The designations mark an escalation beyond political condemnation by connecting the organizations to American counterterrorism and economic tools. The report does not set out the full legal findings for each listing, so the specific consequences and evidentiary basis would depend on the relevant US designation records. Public debate is likely to center on whether those measures target violence or improperly sweep protected political advocacy into terrorism policy.
