A “global” affiliate of the Palestine Action movement openly encourages targeted violence against American facilities while brushing off the government’s recent “terrorist” label.
The website “Palestine Action Global” takes responsibility for the group’s vandalism attacks, solicits funding through “secure” channels, and offers virtual trainings for vetted participants to learn its “direct action” methods against businesses deemed to be helping Israel. The website says it evolved from the United Kingdom-based Palestine Action, which the Treasury Department sanctioned as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” in August over its violence against the U.K. defense sector.
Palestine Action’s terrorist label generally makes it unlawful for U.S.-based people or entities to have transactions or receive services from the sanctioned group. Though Palestine Action Global claims to be meaningfully separate, its website promoted the activities of the original U.K. branch before scrubbing the evidence, a Washington Examiner analysis found. Palestine Action is one of several radical activist networks navigating its future under President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism efforts that target the extreme Left.
“Since the US designation of Palestine Action as a terror group, we’ve seen a surge of Americans seeking to defy Trump’s desperate attempt to protect the zionist entity,” says one web page inviting viewers to a “Direct Action in AmeriKKKa Workshop.”
“No more empty solidarity statements, we must put our bodies on the line,” the page says. “Join this workshop on direct action to learn more about the zionist entity’s genocide factories across the US and learn how to shut them down.”
Palestine Action supporters most recently took credit for breaking windows at a Manhattan bank on Monday and vandalizing it with paint over its supposed financial ties to Israel. Vandals painted the phrases “Pal Action” and “drop Elbit,” referring to Israeli defense company Elbit Systems. An international map of other potential “targets” is available on the Palestine Action Global site.
“We will no longer allow this country, and the companies that plague it, to be involved in the genocide of the Palestinian people without answering for their crimes,” Palestine Action told media outlets.
Palestine Action Global and the Treasury Department did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s requests for comment.
Changing face
U.K. authorities banned Palestine Action as a terrorist group in July 2025 after tying it to a string of local attacks, such as an assault with a sledgehammer that fractured a police officer’s spine. Palestine Action founder Huda Ammori encouraged joining offshoot groups to circumvent the ban, the Telegraph reported.
By the time the Treasury Department followed in the U.K.’s footsteps, Palestine Action Global was already functioning as a workaround for the radicals to continue coordinating their activities.
The Palestine Action Global website used to be affiliated with its original British branch, but was altered at an unknown date to put “global” in the web address, according to older links documented by the watchdog groups NGO Monitor and Capital Research Center.
The British left-wing website Canary also promoted Palestine Action’s inaugural vandalism attack in 2020 with links to statements from what it described as Palestine Action’s website — the same one that was since changed to be “global.” The statements Canary described were also deleted, leaving a blank page.
Additionally, Palestine Action posted messages on an activism website about preventing a U.K. ban before it was implemented and supporting a defense fund for its U.K. prisoners. The posts direct viewers to links from the now-changed Palestine Action web address.
“Palestine Action Global, which doesn’t include Palestine Action in the United Kingdom, is not proscribed by the British government or any international government,” the new site said in a March statement. “Therefore it is not a crime for British citizens or for those in the United Kingdom to support or engage with Palestine Action Global.”
The website solicits donations in British pounds, among other currency.
Along with Palestine Action, the Trump administration’s terrorism sanctions in August targeted two other leftist groups and managed to dismantle at least one. The Italian tech collective Autistici Inventati, which provided privacy-focused digital tools to political allies encouraging crimes, announced it was shutting down in September due to the legal land mines the designation created. The sanctioned pro-Hamas group Masar Badil chose Palestine Action’s more defiant route and has continued operating with a violent U.S. affiliate.
“Palestine Action has promoted its violent, criminal, and terrorist acts on social media, encouraging the use of similar tactics internationally, including within the United States and along the U.S.-Mexican border,” the Treasury Department announcement said.
Federal scrutiny on the organization did not begin with Trump or his Treasury Department.
In May, a federal grand jury indictment against eight Michigan defendants named Palestine Action as part of their alleged conspiracy to threaten public officials, businesses, and a Jewish group. Palestine Action and its former U.S. branch, called Unity of Fields, coordinated with the defendants to post content glorifying their property damage attacks, according to the indictment.
The FBI also began investigating Unity of Fields in 2024 after an assault on a New Hampshire Elbit Systems facility that involved damaging a skylight and a ventilation system, smearing graffiti, and setting off smoke bombs, according to multiple reports. Unity of Fields’s co-founder was sentenced to 60 days in jail for the incident and later made a name for herself espousing anti-American rhetoric on Iran-backed media. The spinoff group’s website is now offline.
HOW A LEFTIST NETWORK USED BY TERRORISTS OPERATED IN PLAIN SIGHT FOR YEARS
The State and Treasury departments presented the August crackdown as a way to cut off financial lifelines for terrorism networks. But Palestine Action Global appears undeterred.
“Every cent goes into supporting the next action,” the group’s donation page says — with a picture of a man swinging a hammer.
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[ H/T Washington Examiner ]
