The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned several far-left organizations on Wednesday, including the U.K.-based Palestine Action and transnational group Masar Badil, which is linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,.

Palestine Action was founded in 2020 with the stated goal of “ending global participation in Israel’s genocidal and apartheid regime,” with a particular focus on attacking Israeli defense manufacturer Elbit Systems. It was proscribed as a terror group by the British government in July 2025 after the groups engaged in several high-profile break-ins at Israel‑linked defense companies and British military installations, including an August 2024 incident where activists physically assaulted security personnel and police at an Elbit office. 

Treasury noted in its designation of the group as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist organization that Palestine Action promoted their activities on social media to encourage “similar tactics internationally, including within the United States and along the U.S.-Mexican border.”

Masar Badil was also designated as an SDGT after being identified as a transnational front for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network — an organization that has itself been sanctioned for operating as a front for the PFLP, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997.

The department stated that Masar Badil is “inextricably linked with Samidoun, and described by one of its senior leaders as part of the same political project.” The two groups share executive committee members, senior leadership, and fundraising mechanisms.

The designation places the entities in the same category as Hamas, al-Qaida and ISIS, while barring foreign supporters from entering the United States. It marks the first known case of a British left-wing activist group being targeted by American counterterrorism sanctions, effectively severing the organization from the global financial system.

The action also blocks all U.S.-based assets and property interests of the designated entities and individuals, while prohibiting American citizens and foreign financial institutions from conducting transactions with them under threat of civil penalties or secondary sanctions.

In addition to the Palestinian-linked networks, OFAC sanctioned Italy-based Autistici Inventati for providing digital architecture, encrypted communications and web hosting to far-left cells and designated foreign terrorist organizations, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party as well as Hamas and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.