{"id":596908,"date":"2026-08-26T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:42:10","slug":"trump-admin-sanctions-three-far-left-groups-over-terrorism-anti-israel-activity-israel-jewish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/596908\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin sanctions three far-left groups over terrorism, anti-Israel activity &#8211; Israel &#038; Jewish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            (Aug. 26, 2026 \/ JNS)\n                    <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration sanctioned on Wednesday three entities it says are \u201cviolent far-left terrorist groups,\u201d with all connected to anti-Israel activity.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of the Treasury <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sb0616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">designated<\/a> Palestine Action, a United Kingdom-based organization that was proscribed as a terrorist group by Britain in July 2025. The group has targeted defense companies and other businesses it associates with Israel, carrying out attacks that have caused millions of dollars in damage, according to the U.S. and British governments.<\/p>\n<p>The British government has said Palestine Action\u2019s attacks, including at defense companies Thales, Instro Precision and Elbit Systems UK, crossed the threshold into terrorism because they involved serious property damage intended to advance the group\u2019s political cause and influence the government.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury also designated Masar Badil, a transnational organization that it says operates as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and is closely linked to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. The PFLP has been designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997, while Samidoun was sanctioned by the United States and Canada in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMasar Badil is inextricably linked with Samidoun, and described by one of its senior leaders as part of the same political project,\u201d the department said. \u201cThe organizations share fundraising mechanisms as well as senior leaders and members of their respective executive committees,\u201d several of which are sanctioned, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Two Masar Badil officials, Germany-based Zaid Abdulnasser and Brazil-based Rawa Alsagheer, were also sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p>The third entity, Italy-based Autistici\/Inventati, was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist for providing digital infrastructure and services to violent far-left groups, including website hosting, encrypted email, chat and video conferencing.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department said Autistici\/Inventati, also known as the A\/I Collective, provides technological services that extremist groups use to publish communiqu\u00e9s and calls to action. A\/I Collective \u201cexclusively provides its services to vetted individuals, collectives, and groups it perceives to be aligned with its ideology,\u201d the department stated. Those groups include U.S.-designated terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions come as the Trump administration has elevated violent far-left extremism as a counterterrorism priority. The administration\u2019s 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy identifies violent far-left terrorist groups as one of three major terrorist threats facing the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFar-left extremists, their fronts, and their enablers should be on notice: We will bring the full weight of our economic tools to bear,\u201d Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary, stated. \u201cPolitical terrorism has no place in our society, and we will continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 26, 2026 \/ JNS) The Trump administration sanctioned on Wednesday three entities it says are \u201cviolent far-left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-596908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}