Trump Compares Antifa to Hamas, Forgetting US Funds Both?
Trump's claim, 'we took the freedom of speech away,' is particularly rich given a White House roundtable where officials reportedly compared Antifa to Hamas. While the mainstream press frames this as a debate on domestic militancy, it's missing the elephant in the room: Hamas, unlike Antifa, receives significant financial and material support from various state and non-state actors, with some US
politicians regularly voting to fund programs that indirectly benefit the same groups they then condemn. The hypocrisy isn't just comparing apples to oranges; it's comparing an organic, leaderless movement to a sophisticated, state-backed (read: Qatar, Iran, etc.) entity that the US sometimes inadvertently bankrolls while simultaneously denouncing it. One might wonder if the real 'freedom of
speech' being taken away is the right to call out Washington's cognitive dissonance, where one hand condemns what the other implicitly subsidizes. The distinction isn't in 'terrorism,' but in where the money actually flows, and which 'terrorists' are politically convenient to ignore or even fund.