Examining the Trump Administration’s New Antifa Designations

About this episode

The episode discusses the Trump administration's designation of four European groups as global terrorists affiliated with Antifa.

On Nov. 13, the Trump administration took the unprecedented step of adding four groups in Europe to the U.S. government’s list of specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs). The administration also stated its intent to add each of these entities to the State Department’s list of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), claiming that all four are affiliated with “Antifa.” The development marks an escalation in the administration’s efforts to recast anti-fascist activism as a matt...

Topics covered

• Trump administration
• Antifa
• terrorism
• global designations
• political activism

Keywords

• Trump administration
• Antifa
• terrorist designations
• global terrorism
• political activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trump administration, U.S. government, State Department, Antifa

Places: Europe

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