The Trump administration is pressing U.S. allies to treat antifa and other far-left movements as a counterterrorism priority, with a senior State Department official urging foreign counterparts to view such activity as "political terrorism rather than mere protest or criminality," according to a New York Times report based on internal documents and interviews with officials.
At a meeting in Ottawa last month focused on terrorism threats in light of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, Monica A. Jacobsen, a senior State Department counterterrorism official, told representatives from Europe, Canada and Australia that Washington wanted greater attention paid to what it sees as an underestimated threat from the far left.
