You may remember Mark Bray as the professor who wrote “The Anti-Fascist Handbook” back in 2017. Bray himself attempted to walk a fine line, saying that while his book did endorse violence in some cases as a response to fascism, he was not personally part of or a leader of any anti-fascist group. In other words, don’t blame him for Antifa violence, he’s just a professor.
A lot has changed since 2017, including Trump’s recent executive order condemning Antifa and the assassination of Charlie Kirk which has put the endorsement of political violence in a new light. Last week, the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, where Bray teaches, launched a petition to have him removed from his job.
“Our petition is to call on Professor Mark Bray to be fired from Rutgers,” Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter, told Fox News Digital Friday in an interview.
“We believe that conservative students and political violence are very prominent now,” Doyle added. “And it puts conservative students at risk from such political violence. And when 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, we believe that it puts conservative students at risk for Antifa to come in.”
The petition itself is here. Here’s a bit of what it says.
Dr. Mark Bray, whom we call Dr. Antifa, wrote the antifa handbook, which is a guideline to what he refers to as “militant anti-fascism”…
In addition to his radical beliefs, in his handbook, He states that “at the very least 50% of the author’s [Mark Bray] proceeds will go to the International Anti-Fascist Defense fund”. Notably, this Defense fund has supplied legal support to Antifa (suspected) members who were charged with terrorism and attempted murder at an ambush at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4th, 2025. In this ambush, an officer was shot in the neck.
This information begs the question: Why is a professor at Rutgers University supporting terrorist behavior?
We believe in free speech and the First Amendment. However, this does not mean that one is free from the consequences of their actions. Dr. Bray has regularly crossed the line and was previously fired from Dartmouth University for endorsing violence. In the current political climate, it’s paramount to protect students from radicals who wish violence upon them.
At this point the petition has gathered over 1,050 signatures. Bray, who has made the defense of political violence his life’s work, suddenly announced he will be leaving the United States because he no longer feels safe.
Mark Bray, who has taught at Rutgers since 2019, told his students Sunday that his courses would move online immediately.
“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. “Truly I am so bummed about not being able to spend time with you all in the classroom.”…
Bray has received three death threats since Sept. 26, including one threatening to kill him in front of his students, according to screenshots of emails reviewed by The Washington Post. The threats and the publication of his address compelled Bray to move his family to Spain for the remainder of the academic year, he said…
“There’s been a concerted attack on universities,” Bray said. “And I feel like this is a facet of that, to make it so that professors who conduct research on protest movements don’t feel safe sharing their research or teaching about topics that the administration doesn’t like.”
It should go without saying that death threats against anyone are not acceptable. But that’s really the whole point of the objections to having a Marxist defender of political violence teaching at the school. Bray accepts violence as necessary so long as it is aimed at the proper (right-wing) targets. But when the same ugly tactics are used against him he cries foul and says he feels unsafe. The irony of this seems to have gone right over his head.
The only sane approach is to denounce political violence in all cases, which protects everyone from this kind of treatment. But that rejection of violence is precisely what Bray refuses to do. In fact, here he is just a few days ago endorsing breaking the law on behalf of anti-fascism.
It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety. But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us. Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.
— Mark Bray (@mark-bray.bsky.social) October 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
To be clear, Turning Point USA has denounced the making of any threats against Dr. Antifa.
“This call to violent leftist action does not justify anyone doxxing Bray or the like,” Kwan added. “We do things by the book. I want to see Rutgers address this issue publicly and end their professional relationship with Professor Bray. If Bray actually moves to Europe, it will be detrimental to our university’s reputation for him to siphon money from New Jersey taxpayers while vacationing in foreign localities friendlier to Antifa.”
Bray has been making the media rounds this week and just announced he’ll be appearing on CNN tomorrow morning. I predict another softball interview in which he is never challenged on his own defense of political violence. Please, CNN, prove me wrong.
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