On June 15, 2021, then–Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered remarks pointing to White Supremacy as the nation’s top domestic terror threat. At the time, we knew this was not true. However, the Biden Administration, as well as their allies like the Anti-Defamation League, insisted that White Supremacy indeed posed the largest domestic terrorist threat in the country. The ADL went so far as to keep a running count of right-wing extremist terrorism in the United States because, presumably, either left-wing terrorism does not exist, or the ADL is okay with it.
However, it doesn’t take a genius to understand that left-wing extremism is way more of an issue today than white supremacy. Before we go into this analysis, let’s be clear: right-wing extremism is still a problem. This past weekend, four years almost to the day of Garland’s statement, a man in Minnesota murdered a lawmaker and her husband and tried to do the same to another lawmaker and his wife. From the preliminary reports, it seems like this guy probably was on the right, but anything is possible at this point. Right-wing extremism is still a problem—but not nearly as much as we have seen in the last 12 months from the left. In case you forgot, let’s take a chronological look at violent acts committed by left-wing extremists over the past six and a half months:
December 4, 2024: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered on the streets of Manhattan by a man who was trying to highlight the perceived evils of the capitalist healthcare system in the United States.
January 27, 2025: A Massachusetts man was arrested on weapons charges at the Capitol. He told police that he intended to kill top Republicans, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
April 13, 2025: The governor’s mansion in Harrisburg, PA, was attacked by a man due to “perceived injustices toward the people of Palestine.” Governor Josh Shapiro, a Jewish man and an outspoken backer of Israel, was asleep after he and his family completed a Seder on the first night of Pesach.
May 17, 2025: An anti-natalist terrorist detonated a bomb outside a Los Angeles fertility clinic, killing one and injuring four. Antinatalism is a philosophical stance that argues procreation is morally wrong or unjustifiable, advocating for a reduction in or cessation of human reproduction.
May 21, 2025: Two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were shot and killed in Washington, D.C., leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. The shooter told police on the scene, “I did it for Palestine. I did it for Gaza.” Witnesses reported hearing the shooter shouting “Free Palestine” after he was taken into custody.
May 24, 2025: A Christian prayer service in a public park in Seattle was invaded by a violent LGBTQ mob, resulting in the arrest of 23 people. The mayor of Seattle, Bruce Harrell, seemed to give the rioters an excuse when he pointed out that the rally was purposefully provocative in that it was held in a neighborhood historically inhabited by the LGBTQ community. When asked why they chose to hold the rally in that particular park, organizers produced email correspondence with the mayor’s office, which had instructed them to move to that park from the previous venue due to the size of the event.
June 2, 2025: A man attacked a peaceful demonstration in support of the hostages in Gaza by throwing Molotov cocktails at marchers in Boulder, Colorado. The assailant was heard to have been shouting “Free Palestine” as he sent 15 people to the hospital to be treated for their wounds.
June 6–14, 2025: Riots in Los Angeles, California, erupted during ICE protests in pockets of the city, prompting President Trump to unleash the National Guard to help local law enforcement quell the riots.
These were all within the last six-and-a-half months. This doesn’t include the takeover of colleges by pro-Hamas thugs, who intimidated Jewish students on multiple campuses. This doesn’t include the first attempt on Donald Trump’s life. This doesn’t include the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life. This doesn’t include the New Year’s attack in New Orleans.
The amazing thing about these acts of violence is that despite all of them taking place fairly recently, whenever another left-wing terrorist attack is reported, it is with the caveat that violent extremism is on the rise on both sides. The aforementioned ADL published a report in February of this year entitled Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2024 that states:
Extremist-related killings in recent years have primarily been committed by far-right extremists. Mass shootings caused a substantial portion of those deaths. The white supremacist mass shooter who attacked Latinos at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019, killing 23 people, was responsible by himself for almost half of the 51 extremist-related deaths that year.
The ADL had to go back to 2019 to point to a time when right-wing extremism was prevalent to take away from the insanity coming from the left today. 2019 was before COVID. The only thing we have in common with 2019 today is that Donald Trump was president.
Of course, there are two other events that the left-wing media loves to cite. The first is the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where one person was killed after the rally turned into a riot and a terrorist drove his minivan into a crowd of counter-protesters. That was in 2017—eight years ago. And just last week, when reporting on the rise in political violence, ABC News’ Start Here podcast related the Los Angeles riots to the Charlottesville riot in an attempt to show that political violence happens on all sides. If you have to go back eight years to find a similar circumstance, methinks you have nothing current to back your opinion.
But that was surprising because there is one other event that the left loves to bring up—January 6. But again, that was now over four years ago. The truth is that despite Merrick Garland, the left-wing media, and the ADL trying to shove the notion that white supremacy is the chief producer of domestic terrorism, we have to understand that this is only true if you ignore all the terrorism coming from left-wing viewpoints.
Izzo Zwiren is the former host of the Jewish Living Podcast. Follow him and his brothers on their health journey on their YouTube Channel, Brotherly Lovehandles. Izzo lives on Long Island with his wife and three adorable, hilarious children.
