The Trump administration is pursuing an unprecedented expansion of the U.S. government’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, adding left-wing groups in Europe along with Latin American drug-trafficking organizations - entities not associated with the ideological violence central to Washington’s counterterrorism stance dating back decades. Officials said this week that in coming days the administration will add four “violent Antifa groups” based in Germany, Italy and Greece to the list. The Trump administration this year designated 19 entities as foreign terrorist organizations, including Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua. Since 2001, Islamist extremist networks have accounted for the vast...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
