The Pros And Cons Of ANTIFA

ANTIFA is a political protest movement affiliated by their militant opposition to facism and other forms of extreme right-wing ideology (). ANTIFA is short for “anti-facist.” Some may say that ANTIFA is a terrorist group due to the acts of violence being carried out by ANTIFA. Some may also say that ANTIFA is not a terrorist group due to some believing their intentions were not to commit acts of violence. So, is ANTIFA a terrorist group? In 2017, a high profile case occurred for two days of conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia. Anti-right wing protesters ended up clashing with the right wing supporters. A right wing supporter drove a car into a crowd of people protesting and ended up killing one person and injuring 35 other people. Some people have viewed this violence as terrorism, while many ANTIFA supporters see it as defense

The GTD developed six criterias to determine whether an incident should be included in the database. Three out of the six criterias should always be present for an incident to be included. The first three mandatory criteria are that the incident must be intentional, include some level of violence or immediate threat of violence, and that the perpetrators of the incident must be sub-national actors. At least two of the three following criteria must be present as well to be included in the GTD, the act must be aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal, there must be evidence of an intention to coerce, intimidate, or convey some other message to a larger audience, and that the action must be outside the context of legitimate warfare activities (). The allegations have been connected to the Charlottesville case and there is a bunch of open source data on the case