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Palestine Action, designated a terror group by the United States and previously banned in Britain, is advertising training days in Rotterdam, Berlin, Paris and Rome through its international platform. The program seeks participants for direct action against Israel’s weapons industry, including Elbit Systems.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s August 26, 2026, designation cited acts that injured British police, break-ins at defense facilities and military installations, and millions of dollars in damage to military equipment. Treasury also accused the organization of promoting violent and criminal tactics abroad, including in the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The sessions appear on Palestine Action Global’s website. The platform describes an international network that originated in England, while maintaining that it excludes U.K. groups and falls outside Britain’s proscription.
Sledgehammers and Secret Cells
In its June 15, 2026, judgment, now subject to a further appeal, Britain’s Court of Appeal concluded that Palestine Action “overtly promotes unlawful violence amounting to terrorism.” The judges described a covert organization using secret cells to avoid detection and prosecution, and found that its activities had caused injuries as well as property damage.
The judgment described serious damage inflicted with weapons, including sledgehammers, and examined the organization’s “Underground Manual.” The court found that the manual demonstrated an intention to continue promoting violence despite risks of serious property damage or serious violence against the public. It also noted that Palestine Action had praised participants rather than treated its terrorist activities as mistakes or aberrations.
Britain’s Home Office separately identifies attacks at Thales in Glasgow in 2022 and at Instro Precision in Kent and Elbit Systems UK in Bristol in 2024. Its proscription record states that these attacks crossed the threshold into terrorism, citing the extent and nature of the damage, targets affecting national security and the impact on members of the public.
Four Cities and a Strategy of Damage
The training page presents protests and lobbying as ineffective and advertises talks, training and group discussions. Rotterdam’s session covers action in the Netherlands and Belgium; Berlin’s explicitly seeks to shut down Elbit facilities in Germany. English-language presentations with Dutch or German translation are offered in those cities, while Rome and Paris specify Italian and French. Exact dates and locations are reserved for confirmed participants. The public listings do not identify instructors or provide a detailed curriculum.
The platform’s published strategy calls for disrupting businesses repeatedly and increasing their costs through damage. Elbit is the primary target, but the campaign also targets companies facilitating its operations. Its stated objective is to make those commercial relationships unprofitable, forcing firms to choose between retaining Elbit’s business and absorbing further losses.
The global platform has also publicized claimed attacks in Europe. In an April 27, 2026, statement, it claimed responsibility for smashing windows at a DSV depot in Potsdam, Germany, and threatened continued targeting until the logistics company stopped working with Elbit.
The American Connection Through Unity of Fields
Unity of Fields emerged from Palestine Action US, the organization’s former American branch, in August 2024, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s account.
The American group’s August 28 rebranding announcement described a “militant front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism” and an “anti-imperialist propaganda front.” It portrayed the October 7 attack as reopening the possibility of revolutionary struggle and called for supporters to “open a new front against the US Empire.”
ADL also documents Unity of Fields’ promotion of vandalism and property destruction, including against Jewish organizations and individuals. Its account describes the group’s celebration of the October 7 attack and support for Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas leaders.
U.S. Sanctions Cover Funding and Services
Palestine Action’s U.S. designation was imposed under Executive Order 13224. OFAC identifies the organization as a “Transnational Terrorist Group” and lists it under the Specially Designated Global Terrorist sanctions program.
The designation blocks its property and interests in property within the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons. Unless authorized or exempt, U.S. persons are generally prohibited from transactions involving that property, including providing funds, goods or services to the designated organization.