From FBI "false flag" operations and Antifa infiltrators to mysterious police suicides—was there any basis to the post-insurrection conspiracy theories?
Anti-fascist militancy has existed for as long as fascism has, but militant anti-fascism is still largely neglected across both academic and policy-practitioner communities.A new study says that there is a need for a more robust, evidence-based understanding of the antifa phenomenon, especially in a context where militant anti-Fascist protest in the United States has been conflated with “domestic terrorism.”
Anti-fascist militancy has existed for as long as fascism has, but militant anti-fascism is still largely neglected across both academic and policy-practitioner communities.
Ariel Koch, in his study of anti-Fascist and anarchist recruitment and mobilization, notes that “While most of the research on radicalization and political violent extremism focuses on jihadism or the contemporary right-wing extremism, it is important not to ignore the reaction that right-wing extremists created and provoked in the past, which is still relevant in our days: left-wing extremism, whic
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Social media users have been sharing content online that suggests those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 were Antifa, not Trump supporters. Many have been using compilations of pictures as purported evidence, but examination of these images shows they do not support this claim. Meanwhile, the FBI has said there is “no indication at this time” that Antifa had played a role in the mob that stormed the Capitol.
An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of President Trump gather at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, January 6. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Fact Check: Were Rioters at the Capitol Antifa Members in Disguise as Gaetz says?
On 1/7/21 at 7:50 PM EST
The theory spread through Facebook, Twitter and into Congress.
The Claim
During his post-raid election-certification speech in which he objected to Arizona s electoral votes, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)advanced the theory that some people who invaded the Capitol were antifa, according to a
Washington Times story that was later retracted. I don t know if the reports are true, but
The Washington Times has just reported some pretty compelling evidence from a facial recognition company that some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters they were masquerading as Trump supporters and, in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa, he said.
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