By Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday the Trump administration's designation of the Palestine Action group as a terrorist organization was "a disproportionate and unnecessary restriction" on free speech rights that amounted to an expansive use of the term terrorism and will have a chilling effect.

The Trump administration is targeting Palestine Action as it goes after leftist movements globally.

Move to ban, sanction British anti-Israel group comes amid crackdown by Trump administration on what it calls 'far-left terror'; UK's own ban is subject to court battle