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New research, based on almost 900 politically-motivated plots and murders in the US since 1994, found only one person’s death in the last 25 years was linked to “antifa” or anti-fascists, and the person who died was the attacker.
In comparison, over that same period, 329 murders were linked to the far-right.
When the label was broadened from anti-fascists to left-wing violence, it found 21 victims had been killed since 2010, compared to 117 in right-wing violence in the same time period.
Jihadist groups were responsible for 95 people’s deaths since 2010.
The database, which was compiled by a thinktank called the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was launched after Trump’s administration spent several months stoking the possibility of left-wing violence, especially during the George Floyd protests.
Seth Jones, a counter-terrorism expert, who helped create the dataset, told The Guardian: “Left-wing violence has not been a major terrorism threat.”
He said: “The most significant domestic terrorism threat comes from white supremacists, anti-government militias and a handful of individuals associated with the ‘boogaloo’ movement that are attempting to create a civil war in the United States.”
Arthur Julien
Article URL : https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-frequently-accuses-far-left-070112171.html