State Department Announces U.S. Sanctions on Foreign Tech Groups Supporting Domestic Viol器
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The State Department on Wednesday announced that a foreign tech group provides online infrastructure to U.S. domestic terror groups to conduct violence across the country. The department formally recognized Italy-based Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group and subsequently sanctioned it.
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Fox NewsThe latest move comes amid wider coordinated interagency efforts against far-left groups. Yesterday, the State Department issued a report that Autistici Inventati provided services to overseas terrorist groups and violent far-left agitators causing chaos in American cities, according to a memo obtained by Fox News Digital.
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As the State Department described in its official announcement, A/I Collective provides sophisticated tech tools for a variety of far-left extremist actors, including website hosting, a blogging suite known as “No.Blogs,” mail services, and similar tech services. Utilizing these anonymous tools, anarchist and autonomous groups issue communiques for designated terrorist groups, issue calls to commit criminal acts, and take credit for attacks against critical infrastructure and law enforcement both in the United States and abroad.
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The memo also revealed Portland-based Rose City Antifa, known for participating in riots and property destruction, is one of the U.S. groups that relied on Autistici Inventati tools and services.
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The FederalistThe Rose City Antifa cell in Portland, Oregon, used A/I Collective’s tools to organize and incite more violence, including “an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters,” spreading doxxing lists on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and call for assaults on ICE agents “in their homes,” the department said.
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The Palestine Action designation is also the latest in a systematic effort to chip away at transnational organizations aiming to subvert American interests through crime and intimidation. Treasury sanctioned the sham nonprofit Samidoun, which had been raising funds for the Marxist FTO Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in October 2024. It has now identified Palestine Action and Masar Badil (another Samidoun front) as extensions of the same enterprise. Next, we must recognize that these groups serve as hubs connected to dozens of spokes — funders, partners, and footsoldiers — each of which poses a danger to our national security and the integrity of our republican system of government.
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Fox NewsAs for Masar Badil, the Treasury Department said the organization serves as a front for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which the U.S. and Canada sanctioned in 2024 after Treasury said it serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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The sanctions also freeze any bank accounts these organizations might have in the U.S. and prevent American citizens from conducting financial transactions with the groups.
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The InterceptThe specific parameters of the U.S. sanctions are not yet clear, but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged the government would “continue to cut the financial lifelines of these groups until they are eliminated.” Sanctioned groups and individuals cannot receive funds, goods, or services from American people or business — meaning they’re cut off from both the U.S. banking system and from any donations from Americans who might want to support them. They can have an isolating global effect: Financial institutions outside the U.S. that do business with American companies are often hesitant to affiliate with sanctioned individuals.
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While the new U.S. sanctions are a part of a long history of post-9/11 policies in its so-called war on terror, the U.K. government has made itself notorious for its specific draconian crackdown on pro-Palestine dissent. Last year, as Palestine Action members began to face terror charges in court for their demonstrations, the U.K. government proscribed the group as a terrorist organization. The organization in the U.K. immediately ceased operations after the terror proscription. Dozens of members in the U.K. are facing criminal trials for their actions at Elbit weapons factories, and more than 1,200 people have been arrested and charged under the U.K.’s Terror Act for attending rallies merely supporting the group.
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Fox NewsFounded in 2020, Palestine Action is known for aggressive campaigns against defense companies it believes is supporting Israel. Palestine Action has reportedly broken into facilities, occupied factories and destroyed equipment. U.K. government officials said that the group caused more than $1.3 million in damages to an Elbit Systems facility.
The Daily WireA few actions would keep Treasury’s momentum going. First, Treasury and the State Department should designate Unity of Fields as an alias of Palestine Action UK. Unity of Fields was once known as Palestine Action US, and has been a force of destruction stateside — attacking banks and other businesses in acts of violent intimidation. Founded by the same network, funded by the same sources, and acting for the same cause, Unity of Fields has left little doubt that it, too, materially and ideologically supports terrorism.
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01 The Federalist The State Department stressed in its release that the collective helps distribute not just opinions, but “target information, tactical manuals and techniques” for conducting criminal and terrorist acts.
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02 Fox News The Treasury Department announced sanctions against three far-left international networks as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on politically motivated violence.
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03 The Intercept What he didn’t realize was that he could be hit with U.S. sanctions five years later for his past ties to a so-called terrorist organization.
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04 The Daily Wire The U.S. Department of the Treasury followed in the United Kingdom’s footsteps on Wednesday, designating Palestine Action as a terrorist front. Acting under the authority of Executive Order 13224, Treasury has confirmed what analysts have documented for years: that a transatlantic network of cells, funders, and ostensible grassroots organizations has been waging coordinated violence against defense infrastructure, intimidating Americans through civil terrorism, and providing material and ideological support to designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).
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