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\n Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a \u201cresurgence\u201d of \u201cfar left political terrorism,\u201d according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response.\n <\/p>

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\n It is a key priority of the Trump administration, which has in its counterterrorism strategythat \u201cviolent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists\u201d are foremost terrorist threat to the United States, alongside cartels and \u201clegacy Islamist terrorists.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n However, multiple former officials said the issue has been politicized by the administration and that the threat from the \u201cfar-left\u201d does not rise to the level of that posed by groups like ISIS or by far-right extremists. The latter was absent entirely from the administration\u2019s counterterrorism strategy released in May.\n <\/p>\n

\n Thursday\u2019s ministerial, according to the State Department, is meant to \u201cexpand coordination, enhance information sharing, and strengthen international law enforcement mechanisms to counter the threat\u201d that it says has \u201cremained a blind spot in the international community\u2019s counterterrorism focus.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n A senior State Department official said 65 country delegations are slated to attend the event from \u201cacross the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe, and beyond.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n According to sources, many of the delegations will not be led by the foreign ministers of the countries, but rather more working-level and technical officials. Several cited scheduling, with invitations to the event only being issued at the beginning of July.\n <\/p>\n

\n Countries that had worked with the administration on the topic were among those invited, the official said, noting they\u2019ve had \u201cvery productive engagements with Germany, with Greece, with Italy, and that\u2019s often where the problem is most pronounced in Europe.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In his speech, Rubio plans to describe left-wing terrorism as \u201cthe result of a unique evil rooted in a deep resentment towards civilization,\u201d according to the State Department official. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are also expected to participate.\n <\/p>\n

\n The threat of left-wing terrorism \u201chas not really been addressed collectively in an effective way,\u201d the senior State Department official said. According to the official, partners have said they \u201chave a handle\u201d on other forms of political violence but \u201cthis one is more difficult for us.\u201d\n <\/p>

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\n The senior official cited attacks by members of European Antifa groups, which the administration designated as terrorists last November, as examples of far-left terrorist actions. They did not provide examples from other parts of the world but said they are focused on \u201cviolent criminal terrorist acts,\u201d when asked if a leftist protest would be considered a form of far-left terrorism.\n <\/p>\n

\n However, former officials said the ministerial appears to be a part of the administration\u2019s broader effort to amplify the threat and target those on the political left who oppose Trump\u2019s policies. Several who spoke with CNN said that the reality of the threat from far-left extremists does not match the administration\u2019s portrayal.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe looked at terrorism of all stripes, including left-wing terrorism, but the reality and the data, both here domestically and abroad, indicate that left-wing extremism is not and has not been the type of threat or the degree of threat that far-right terrorism or extremist violence or jihadist violence have posed,\u201d said Ian Moss, the former deputy coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department under the Biden administration.\n <\/p>\n

\n Moss, now an attorney with Jenner & Block, noted that there are \u201cother forms of violent ideological extremism, Islamist violence for starters, and then certainly violent right-wing extremists or White identity terrorists, which are a real risk, a real concern domestically and internationally, and one that the administration seems to have not focused on.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Michael Duffin, a former senior counterterrorism adviser at the State Department, said that \u201cnever\u201d in his nine years of working on counterterrorism \u201chad so-called left-wing extremism risen\u201d to a level warranting such high-level focus.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThere\u2019s no violent extremist element, organizational element on the left, that would the expenditure of these resources,\u201d he told CNN. Duffin was among many State Department officials who worked on counterterrorism who were fired last year as part of the administration\u2019s mass firings and overhaul of the department.\n <\/p>\n

\n Throughout President Donald Trump\u2019s second term, his administration has also ramped up domestic pressure against alleged far-left extremists.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump designated the anti-fascist movement Antifa as a so-called \u201cdomestic terrorist organization.\u201d Despite claims that Antifa is a top concern domestically, law enforcement agencies have struggled to define the amorphous group, its size, locations of chapters and other basic information.\n <\/p>

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