Netherlands, Hungary Push to Designate Antifa as Terrorist Organization

Antifa members have ‘beaten peaceful people in the streets, beaten some half to death’ in Hungary, said the country’s prime minister.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban looks on, before the voting of the ratification of Sweden's NATO membership in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 26, 2024. Bernadett Szabo /Reuters

Political leaders in the Netherlands and Hungary are backing proposals to designate Antifa as a terrorist group after U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he would take such an action in the United States.

“Dutch Parliament votes in favour of my party’s proposition to declare Antifa a terrorist organization,” Thierry Baudet, founder of the Forum voor Democratie (FvD) party, said in a Sept. 19 X post.