Mark Bray, nicknamed “Dr. Antifa” by the Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA, said he will now move his classes to online only 'for safety reasons,’ according to Fox News. This comes after the Turning Point chapter launched a petition to spearhead Bray’s removal from the college.
Bray is a self-proclaimed member of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation, and he has written multiple books on anti-fascism, including the national best-seller, “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.”
“We, the students of Rutgers University, are deeply concerned to learn that an outspoken, well-known antifa member, Dr. Mark Bray, is employed by the university," states the petition to remove him. "With the current trend of left-wing terrorism, having a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus is a threat to conservative students on campus.”
As a result, two Turning Point officers are being looked at for calling out the professor's affiliations with Antifa, reports Fox News.
Zachary Marschall is the editor in chief of Campus Reform.
"I would say that threats of violence against anyone over political views is always wrong, and that applies for both sides of the aisle. We have a professor at Rutgers University, Mark Bray, who is a Antifa devotee, now living in Europe because he is feeling more comfortable there after he got online backlash," says Marschall.
Campus Reform reports Bray saying in an email that he received “another death threat” and a separate threat that included his home address.
"While violence is never right and political violence is never right, we cannot ignore the fact that he spent a career making things up,” says Marschall. “So, while I do not condone what's happening to him, I do think he should take this time to reevaluate what teaching should be."
Marschall points out that Bray has also called out Israel for “scholasticide” in Gaza, accused Israel of being an oppressor, called Vice President J.D. Vance a fascist, and spent his time as a professor using his platform as a “bully pulpit” for telling students what to think instead of how to think.
He explored more of Bray's work, which includes his book that is a national best-seller “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.”
“Bray wrote the anti-fascist handbook, which is history of anti-fascism going from its, I would say, legitimate roots of fighting against the Nazis and Mussolini in World War II to now, its manipulated form today, which is pretty much being against liberal capitalism," says Marschall.
Marschall reiterated that the Trump administration designated Antifa as a terrorist organization. This happened in an executive order late September.
"I think that was an appropriate call. It should make people second guess their tacit support for Antifa because it sounds like a nice thing. That doesn't mean that it is a nice thing,” states Marschall. “The left is very good with language and will use nice-sounding words to hide the nefarious objectives behind those things that most people just glaze right over."
