Death threats and accusations: the professor targeted by the US far right
Baggage dropped and boarding passes in hand, Mark Bray and his family cleared security at Newark airport in early October. Their flight to Spain was meant to ferry the family of four to safety after days of mounting threats; instead, as they waited at the gate to board, they were told that someone had cancelled their reservation.
“It felt like I was being watched and laughed at,” said Bray, a professor at Rutgers university who teaches a course on the history of antifascism and in 2017 wrote a book on Antifa. “I knew it was politically motivated one way or the other.”
The incident catapulted Bray into the headlines as one of the highest-profile people caught up in Donald Trump’s efforts to target Antifa.
For years, Trump had taken aim at Antifa, seeking to turn it into a formal enemy despite the fact that the decentralised movement – which opposes the far right, fascists and racists – has no structure, hierarchy or leader.
His crusade took on new life after the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Days after the killing, without any evidence to show a link between the suspected assassin and Antifa, the president signed an executive order designating the movement as a “domestic terrorist organisation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/death-threats-and-accusations-the-professor-targeted-by-the-us-far-right
Outrageous and STUPID!