AntifaGate: When Anti-Fascism Becomes Terrorism
Published: Sep 21, 2025 00:00
In 1945, the world said 'Never again.' The death camps, the gas chambers, the mass graves — fascism was supposed to be buried forever. But in 2025, we see something grotesque: governments calling anti-fascists terrorists.
Hungary’s ruling party, emboldened by allies in Washington and Brussels, is moving to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization. Let that sink in: those who oppose fascism — who literally define themselves by opposition to it — are recast as the enemy.
This is more than political theater. It is a signal. Across Europe and the US, far-right movements no longer hide in the shadows. They march in the streets, sit in parliaments, and dine with presidents. And when the barricade of resistance stands — the young, the marginalized, the activists under the Antifa banner — the state moves to criminalize it.
The media obliges, recycling the same tropes once used against labor unions and civil rights leaders: 'violent agitators,' 'domestic extremists.' What they will not say is this: fascism requires silence. And branding anti-fascists as terrorists is the quickest way to silence them.
Truthloop’s stance is simple: Antifa is not terrorism. Fascism is. And history will not forgive those who confuse the two.