A Stripe credit-card donation facility being used to raise money for proscribed group Palestine Action appears to have stopped working, shortly after UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) warned Stripe that continuing to process payments for the organisation could breach US sanctions.

UKLFI wrote to Stripe’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary on 31 August 2026, pointing out that Palestine Action had been designated by the US Treasury just five days earlier.

UKLFI told Stripe that Palestine Action was inviting supporters to donate through its website and that supporters choosing to pay by credit card were being taken to a payment page operated by Stripe.

However, on 1 September, UKLFI found that the Stripe donation facility was no longer functioning on Palestine Action’s website. Instead, a message appeared saying : “The following error occurred when submitting the form: Could not retrieve elements store due to unexpected error.”

The Palestine Action donations page still contains the heading “Donate using a card”, but no card-payment facility is currently displayed beneath it.

The development follows the US Treasury’s decision on 26 August to sanction Palestine Action under Executive Order 13224, the US counterterrorism sanctions regime.

The Treasury said Palestine Action had supported numerous acts of terrorism since 2020, including acts which had injured UK law-enforcement personnel, break-ins at defence infrastructure and British military installations, and damage to military equipment.

It designated Palestine Action for having “materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods and services to or in support of, an act of terrorism”.

In its letter, UKLFI explained that US sanctions generally block property and interests in property belonging to designated persons where they are in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons.

UKLFI told Stripe that, if it was holding funds belonging to Palestine Action, those funds would be blocked and would have to be reported to the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). It also pointed out that US sanctions generally prohibit US persons from carrying out transactions involving the property or interests in property of blocked persons.

Since Stripe is a US-based company, UKLFI asked it to confirm immediately that it would cease providing financial services to Palestine Action.

Stripe has not yet confirmed to UKLFI whether it removed or disabled the payment facility, or whether its disappearance was a direct result of UKLFI’s intervention.

A UKLFI spokesperson said:

“Yesterday we warned Stripe that it appeared to be processing donations for an organisation newly designated under US counterterrorism sanctions. Today the Stripe donation facility on Palestine Action’s website no longer works.

“If Stripe has acted to terminate Palestine Action’s access to its payment services, that would be an important and appropriate consequence of the US designation. Financial sanctions are intended to cut designated organisations off from the financial system, and payment processors must ensure that they are not providing them with a means of raising funds.

“We hope Stripe will now confirm what action it has taken and what has happened to any Palestine Action funds that may have been in its possession or control.”

UKLFI also wrote yesterday to Barclays Bank, which holds funds on behalf of Stripe, in the UK, alerting them to the US Sanctions which could affect them, if they are holding funds for Palestine Action on behalf of Stripe.