AdvertisementOther groups across the U.S., such as NYC Antifa and Antifa Sacramento , are part of the same loose anti-fascist network, but many do not explicitly call themselves antifa. “While the FBI has confirmed that antifa and other extremists are subjects of ongoing domestic terrorism investigations, it declines to designate any organization a “‘domestic terrorist organization,” a 2020 congressional report said. What they’re doing to this country is really subversive.”Bray rejected the idea that antifa is in any way a terrorist organization. “There’s no doubt if violence, or the threat of violence, is being used in pursuit of a political motive, it’s terrorism. In the 1990s, when President Clinton tried to enact sweeping domestic terrorism laws, Hoffman said, Republicans raised concerns about 1st Amendment violations.