Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

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Last edited Thu Oct 9, 2025, 11:38 AM - Edit history (1)

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

https://newrepublic.com/post/201448/professor-flees-to-europe-turning-point-usa-antifa

https://archive.ph/YTmjR



Author and Rutgers University history professor Mark Bray is taking his wife and children to Europe after facing mounting death threats, some of which were sent to his home address. Bray made the announcement on Monday, shortly after the school’s Turning Point USA chapter called for his termination and claimed his research—which focuses on the history of leftist movements—“puts conservative students at risk for antifa to come in.”

“You have a teacher that so often promotes political violence, especially in his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which talks about militant fascism, which is on term with political violence,” Rutgers Turning Point chapter treasurer Megyn Doyle told Fox News last week.

A petition from the university’s Turning Point chapter also accused Bray of being “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus.” Bray states that he is against facism, not conservative students on campus. Even still, the so-called free speech club got their wish. In an email to his students later posted on the Rutgers University subreddit, Bray said his class would be online for the rest of the semester as he and his family go to Europe out of fear for their safety:

Bray went on to notify the students that he’d be moving the class online asynchronously until the midterm, given the time difference. This chilling news comes as President Trump designates antifa as a terrorist organization, even as he’s unable to name a single leader of the group—because it doesn’t exist. Trump also declared any vaguely leftist rhetoric to be domestic terrorism in his NPSM-7 memo.

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Update: US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220704379#post9

[Coventina]

1. This is probably my future.

Except that I can't afford to go to Europe.

I'll probably just have to take a financially ruinous early retirement and relocate somewhere in the US.

[Johonny]

2. The right is against violence, unless they threaten it

Same ole shit. Country in the toilet thanks to Trump.

[Botany]

3. Fascism is here. "puts conservative students at risk for antifa to come in." ANTIFA is not real

Goebbels the big lie. “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

[bucolic_frolic]

4. The rot has reached New Jersey

sobering.

[spanone]

5. People will need to be in the streets real soon.

This shit cannot stand.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. 'will need to be'?

More like 'already needed to be'.

[ffr]

6. I don't blame him. He must protect his family, as any responsible parent would.

It just goes to show the power and influence Fox Entertainment has over all those who watch through any of their television and radio affiliates.

What would we estimate our alliance with 20th century Germany to be, 1934 or 1935?

America has lost everything we once cared about.

[2na fisherman]

8. The New McCarthyism

History is repeating itself. The "enemies lists" Joe McCarthy was fond of waving around were public smears of purported "communist sympathizers." People lost their jobs and suffered vicious attacks for being falsely associated with an opposing system of government. Now it's worse with the Trump regime inflaming half the country against the other as "antifa" which is the new boogeyman weasel-word taken to mean so-called terrorists. And todays smears are more damaging because of the internet where such fabrications go viral around the world before they can be debunked. And violent actions are more easily taken in a country awash with arms. But now we ask these new demagogues, "Have you no decency?" The answer is absolutely not.

[Celerity]

9. Update: US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university



A Rutgers University professor who taught a course on anti-fascism was blocked from leaving the US for Spain on Wednesday night, according to media reports, hours after Donald Trump hosted a White House roundtable highlighting the impact of antifa – or “anti-fascist” – far-left activists. Mark Bray, an historian who published the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, and has taught courses on anti-fascism at the New Jersey university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport bound for Europe when he was informed at the boarding gate that the reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.

The professor, nicknamed “Dr Antifa” by a group of students, had said he was moving to Europe after receiving death threats. Turning Point USA activists have claimed he is a “financier” for the leftwing movement. “‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky social media. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’” A petition calling for his removal from the university had been launched in the weeks following the assassination of the Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and Bray’s home address was revealed on social media.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

— Mark Bray (@mark-bray.bsky.social) 2025-10-08T23:57:13.680Z

One threat included a vow to kill him in front of his students, according to the Washington Post. The threats led to Bray’s decision to relocate to Spain with his wife and two children and to continue to teach his students remotely. “Since my family and I do not feel safe in our home at the moment, we are moving for the year to Europe,” Bray said in an email to students on Sunday. “Truly I am so bummed about not being able to spend time with you all in the classroom.” Bray told the New York Times earlier on Wednesday that “my role in this is as a professor. I’ve never been part of an antifa group, and I’m not currently.” But he added that “there’s an effort underway to paint me as someone who is doing the things that I’ve researched, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Bray told the outlet that the family were rebooked for Thursday evening but were in the dark about why the earlier booking had been cancelled. “I may sound conspiratorial, but I don’t think it is a coincidence,” he said. “We’re at a hotel and we’re just going to try again.” After Kirk’s assassination, the rightwing influencer Jack Posobiec called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor” on X. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA then circulated a petition that accused the professor of being an “outspoken, well-known antifa member” and called for his dismissal. The Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA has said it does not support harassment or doxing, but Bray is on a list of academics the group identifies as advancing left-leaning classroom propaganda.

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