Facebook and Instagram have removed Addameer’s pages, after UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) wrote to Meta regarding Addameer’s recent designation as a terrorist organization by the US Treasury.  Following another letter from UKLFI, Change.org has also removed Addameer’s petition from its website.

UKLFI wrote to Meta pointing out that Addameer had been designated and that US companies, or organisations with a US office, are now prevented from offering services to Addameer because of the newly imposed sanctions. US entities are subject to fines from the US authorities for breaching the sanctions, on a strict liability basis. Addameer’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were removed on around 16 June 2025.

Addameer’s Facebook page had 35,000 followers. Its Instagram account had 13,600 followers.

Addameer had a petition on Change.org aimed at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate alleged war crimes by the Israeli miliary.  The petition had garnered 29,166 signatures.

However, this was removed on 16 June 2025 when Change.org was informed that Addameer had been designated as a Specially Designated National (SDN) in the USA.

YouTube removed Addameer’s channel on around 14 June 2025, and GoFundMe removed a fundraiser that benefitted Addameer on 13 June 2025 following letters from UKLFI.

Addameer was one of five “sham charities” along with five individuals, all located outside the USA, sanctioned on 10 June 2025 by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

In its press release about the designation, the US Treasury said of Addameer:  “Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer), based in the West Bank, purports to represent the interests of Palestinian prisoners.  However, like the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun) that OFAC designated on October 15, 2024 along with one of its leaders, Khaled Barakat (Barakat), Addameer has long supported and is affiliated with the PFLP.”

Caroline Turner, director of UKLFI commented: “We are pleased that Meta has closed Addameer’s pages so it can no longer spread its influence using this channels, and that Addameer’s petition has been removed from Change.org.”