The U.S. State Department, on July 16, hosted a ministerial conference to address growing concerns about rising terrorism threats, particularly from the political left.
Representatives from more than 60 nations, spanning the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Asia, were at the meeting in Washington on Thursday.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who organized the event, used the opportunity to urge attendees to take a more critical approach to radical and violent left-wing organizations in their own countries.
Addressing the gathered attendees, Rubio denounced what he described as an institutional reluctance to treat such groups as serious sources of terrorist activity.
“Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy,” he said….