{"id":7116,"date":"2020-06-23T13:52:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2020-10-31T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:08:54","slug":"a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/06\/23\/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Antifa: Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/06\/23\/a-brief-history-of-antifa-part-ii\/protesters-rally-against-the-proud-boys-in-new-york-city\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7117\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/antifa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/antifa2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/antifa2-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Antifa in the United States is highly networked, well-funded and has a clear ideological agenda: to subvert, often with extreme violence, the American political system, with the ultimate aim of replacing capitalism with communism.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>A Brief History of Antifa: Part II<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/16149\/antifa-history-part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | June 23, 2020<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1267129644228247552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> that the American government would designate Antifa \u2014 a militant &#8220;anti-fascist&#8221; movement \u2014 as a terrorist organization due to the violence that erupted at George Floyd <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Floyd_protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests<\/a> across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Code of Federal Regulations (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/stats-services\/publications\/terrorism-2002-2005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defines<\/a> terrorism as &#8220;the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>American media outlets sympathetic to Antifa have jumped to its defense. They argue that the group cannot be classified as a terrorist organization because, they claim, it is a vaguely-defined protest movement that lacks a centralized structure.<\/p>\n<p>As the following report shows, Antifa is, in fact, highly networked, well-funded and has a clear ideological agenda: to subvert, often with extreme violence, the American political system, with the ultimate aim of replacing capitalism with communism. In the United States, Antifa&#8217;s immediate <a href=\"https:\/\/refusefascism.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aim<\/a> is to remove President Trump from office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/16149\/antifa-history-part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antifa in the United States is highly networked, well-funded and has a clear ideological agenda: to subvert, often with extreme violence, the American political system, with the ultimate aim of replacing capitalism with communism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[219,175],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states-geopolitics","tag-antifa","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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