US DOJ removes study showing prevalence and growth of far-right terrorism

The Department of Justice has removed a National Institute of Justice study from its website that showed that white supremacist and far-right violence and terrorism “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the US. The study was available on the DOJ website last week, according to an archive of the page

The study has been replaced by a message that:

The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance. During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

One of Trump’s avalanche of executive orders tells government agencies to scrub any mention of words like “diversity” and “gender” from their sites.

Far-right terrorism study: gone

The deletion of the white terrorism study comes immediately after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, with some saying he was a far-right ‘groyper‘. The study contradicts the Trump regime’s narrative that the left is responsible for most political violence in the country, in order to justify an escalated crackdown on the supposed “radical left.” After Kirk’s murder, Trump immediately blamed the left:

For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organisations that fund it and support it.

The now-gone study tells a very different – and much more recognisable – story:

Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.

Similar tactics have been used by the Starmer regime and the Israel lobby in the UK, who have attempted to paint peaceful anti-genocide protest as ‘hate’ and have classified conscientious action against Israel-owned arms factories as terrorism. This false narrative impacts actual policing, where hundreds of pensioners and disabled people have been arrested for ‘terror offences’ for peacefully holding a sign, while far-right rioters and thugs escape arrest and punishment.

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