Rutgers professor flees to Europe after receiving death threats
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Dr. Mark Bray, a history professor, and his family have fled the country to Europe following increased attention online and in the media over his book, “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” and other social media posts regarding antifascism.
Bray, who teaches a class on terrorism among other subjects, has made the rest of his classes this semester asynchronous as a result, which he announced to one of his classes via Canvas.
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The online firestorm follows a petition that students in the Rutgers Turning Point USA chapter launched to remove him. The organization posted on Instagram on October 2, calling for students who wanted to be “socialists” to pay Bray “a visit,” and asking for help in reporting a “professor who has ties to Antifa which is now designated as a domestic terrorist organization.”
Students in the organization had expressed concern after finding out that Bray had written “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.” In an interview to Fox News, Megyn Doyle, treasurer for Rutgers TPUSA, said the goal of the petition was “to call on Professor Mark Bray to be fired from Rutgers.”
She claimed that Professor Bray “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.” Doyle also says that the book “puts conservative students at risk for ANTIFA to come in.”
Since launching the petition, Bray says he has received “multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address),” and accusations that he is a terrorist, which he called “ironic.”
“Professor Bray is not a terrorist,” the Rutgers chapter of Amnesty International said in a statement released on Monday, “however it is not uncommon for far right extremists, such as TPUSA, to falsely characterize research, education, books, and other media, that they disagree with as ‘terroristic’ or ‘dangerous.'”
WRSU’s Brian Chevez and Antony Gonzalez contributed to this report.