US President Donald Trump has declared Palestine Action a global terrorist organisation and added the British-based group to a list already including Hamas, al-Qaeda and Islamic State.
The US has imposed sanctions on the group’s supporters as they are potentially barred for life from entering the US.
The organisation’s assets are also set to be frozen, including property and bank accounts, while US citizens would be prevented from doing business with them.
Supporting Palestine Action became illegal in the UK in 2025 after the government banned it under anti-terror legislation.
The group’s co-founder Huda Ammori responded in a social media post, saying: ‘As a Palestinian and Iraqi, the fact the country which destroyed both my homelands is calling me a terrorist, is beyond hypocritical.’
London’s Court of Appeal ruled in June that the UK Government’s decision to proscribe the group last year under the Terrorism Act 2000 was lawful.
That overturned a High Court decision in February that the ban should be quashed.
Court listings show 1,855 people had been charged with carrying a placard in Parliament Square supporting Palestine Action.
More than 2,700 arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000 have been made since the banning of Palestine Action.
British citizens Richard Barnard and Huda Ammori co-founded Palestine Action in July 2020.
The US Department of the Treasury said it had ‘taken action’ against the UK-based organisation, which it accused of supporting ‘numerous acts of terrorism since July 2020’.
