State Department Institutes Sanctions Against Far-Left Transnational Terrorist Groups

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The U.S. government has announced sanctions against multiple transnational far-left terrorist networks, including an Italy-based group that supplies the digital infrastructure for Antifa cells in the United States.

Just the News reports that the State Department  says groups like the Autistici/Inventati Collective are designed to provide far-left extremist groups with the means to organize, recruit, communicate, and carry out violent attacks while remaining beyond the reach of the law.

Sanctions  have also been imposed on the transnational groups Palestine Action, a United Kingdom-based activist organization involved in pro-Palestinian protests and direct actions, and Masar Badil, a transnational network with branches in Europe and Canada that operates as a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Granicus reports that the Department of the Treasury and the State Department targeted these networks for allegedly supporting violent political extremism or acting as fronts for designated terrorist organizations.

According to a Wednesday press statement from Thomas Pigott, A/I’s full spectrum of digital services are specifically built to provide far-left terrorist groups with the means to organize, recruit, communicate, and carry out violent attacks – all while remaining beyond the reach of the law.

Pigotti stated:

Violent far-left terrorist networks, such those targeted today, pose a threat to the United States and our foreign partners. There will be no refuge for violent extremists who wage war on our civilization and plot to undermine law and order, destroy critical infrastructure, assault political opponents, or conceal their crimes from authorities. We will use all the tools and authorities at our disposal to fight terrorism and protect our way of life.

Under the new sanctions, all property and interests of the designated groups that are subject to U.S. jurisdiction are blocked, and all U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in any transactions with them, according to the State Department.

Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with delegates from dozens of countries to discuss the “resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism,” which he claimed is driven by a “globally networked” group of far-left terrorists, who are turning to violence to advance their political agenda, according to Just the News.