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The unprovoked assault on my Toronto Sun colleague, photographer Stan Behal, at an “anti-fascist” rally on Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday is nothing new for so-called “Antifa” thugs.

A day after the attack on Behal by a lone thug, the Washington Post reported on similar attacks on U.S. media at a Sunday, Washington, D.C. Antifa rally.

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In both cities, Antifa, who ostensibly came to battle with neo-Nazis, white supremacists and white nationalists, turned on the media when their intended targets didn’t show up.

As the Post headlined its story, “Antifa protesters couldn’t find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead.”

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In April, 2017, Antifa thugs attacked a Global TV crew covering a clash between left-wing and right-wing extremists in Quebec City, pushing one of them down a flight of stairs and smashing the television camera of another.

Aside from Global, I was one of the few Canadian journalists who wrote about what had happened.