- Donald Trump described the Antifa movement as a domestic terrorist organization.
- The Antofa Group does not have a centralized structure or national leader.
- US law does not officially call domestic groups terrorist.
- The group fights against neo -Nazis and fascist ideologies.
- The first amendment to the US Constitution protects freedom of expression.
US President Donald Trump signed a executive order on Tuesday night by which he described the Antifa movement as a “domestic terrorist organization”. Informed AP. This was the day after the memorial service for the murdered conservative activist and influencer Charlie Kirk. At the same time, it is one of several steps that the Republican President threatened to his political opponents.
AP added that the US federal authorities have the power to fight against domestic terrorism but The US legal system does not officially allow domestic groups to be terrorist – as is the case with foreign organizations such as Islamic State or Al -Qaeda. During his first term of office, Trump, after protests against police brutality after the death of African-American George Floyd, announced that he would describe the antifa as “terrorist” at the level of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, but it did not happen.
The designation as a foreign terrorist organization allows the law enforcement authorities to withhold or prosecute anyone who expresses support for such groups. This one However, the law does not apply to domestic organizations because it could be abused against political opponents and would be a violation of the first amendment to the US Constitution, which protects freedom of expression.
In the USA, anti -fascist groups have been engaged in different spheres in the past two decades The struggle for social justice, and the main area of their work is activities against neo -Nazi groups and formations proclaiming the superiority of the White Race.
Activists associated with antipha – often masked and dressed in black – protest against racism, extreme right and what they consider to be fascism. They claim that violent tactics are sometimes justified as self -defense. Since the election of Trump in 2016, these protests have more often changed to direct confrontation with right -wing groups.
Antifa, the abbreviation for “anti-fascism” (anti-fascism), originated in the 1930s in Germany, where the socially oriented antipic groups opposed the rise of the Nazis. Antifa has no national leader or centralized structure. It is made up of “independent, radical and like -minded groups and individuals”, It is presented in the Congressional Research Service analysis of 2020 cited by AP.
