
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
David Gilbert
created: Oct. 9, 2025, 3:55 p.m. | updated: Oct. 14, 2025, 12:05 p.m.
A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats.
Mark Bray, a historian at Rutgers who specializes in Spanish history and radicalism, has been a far-right target ever since he published Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook in 2017.
The professor informed his students on Sunday that he would be moving to Europe as a result of the threats.
"For 20 minutes [United Airlines] couldn't even figure out what had happened,” says Bray.
“Then they said that, basically, somehow someone had canceled our reservation, presumably in between checking through and then.
1 week, 5 days ago: WIRED