Trump designates foreign anti-fascist organizations as "terrorists" for the first time
The State Department publishes a list of groups that have been reclassified as a threat
WashingtonThe U.S. State Department has published a list formally designating foreign anti-fascist groups as "terrorist" organizations for the first time, including one German group, one Italian group, and two Greek groups. This designation follows the logic applied in its first executive order, which declared the American anti-fascist movement a "terrorist organization," but it raises many questions about the scope of the international implications. The Trump administration has also designated drug cartels as terrorist organizations and, under this premise, is conducting extrajudicial killings in the Pacific and the Caribbean without providing evidence.
The groups included on the State Department's list, which will be officially treated as "terrorist" organizations as of November 20, are: Antifa Ost (German), the Informal Anarchist Federal (Italian), Proletarian Armed Justice (Greek), and Revolutionary Self-Defense (Greek). The descriptions presented in the State Department statement accuse the four groups of conspiring to carry out bomb attacks and inciting violence against "individuals perceived as fascists." It cites how Antifa Ost was declared a terrorist organization by the government of its far-right ally, Hungary's Viktor Orbán. The State Department warns that "terrorist designations expose and isolate entities and individuals, denying them access to the U.S. financial system and the resources they need to carry out attacks." It also states that "it is a crime to knowingly provide material support or resources to those designated or to attempt to conspire to do so." "Individuals who engage in certain transactions or activities with those designated today may expose themselves to the risk of sanctions. It is especially relevant that engaging in certain transactions with them carries the risk of secondary sanctions according to counterterrorism authorities," the document states. [We are working to expand this information]
