US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist'

US designates Palestine Action activist group 'Specially Designated Global Terrorist' Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 08/26/2026 - 17:15 US crackdown follows the UK's proscription against Palestine Action one year ago Protesters, with their faces covered for fear of retaliation, participate in the 'Break the Siege on Gaza' protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, on 9 August 2025 (Mandel Ngan/AFP) Off The Trump administration has designated the UK activist group Palestine Action a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), as part of its efforts to go after what it described as "violent far-left terror networks". Wednesday's decision comes a year after the United Kingdom banned the group for damaging materials at weapons factories run by Elbit Systems. Elbit is a key provider of weapons to the Israeli military, which has for nearly three years carried out what the United Nations and Holocaust scholars have called a genocide in the Gaza Strip.