Why can’t the media call antifa terrorists what they are?

Published June 30, 2026 6:00am ET



A jaw-dropping headline in last Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal regarding last summer’s antifa attack on an ICE detention center made me think I’d fallen down the rabbit hole alongside Alice. “Protesters Sentenced to Decades in Clash at ICE Facility,” it said.

The paper described the attack in which a police officer was nearly killed as “an incident” and “protest.” In a 12-paragraph story, reporter Victoria Albert manages to call the defendants “protesters” eight different times.

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