Rutgers professor flees U.S. for Spain, claims he received death threats

""I'm a historian of fascism and I understand that the way that authoritarian movements grow is by coming up with a boogeyman term like 'Antifa,'" said Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Playbook." "It really started after [President] Trump's executive order declaring Antifa a quote-unquote terrorist organization.""

""The pace of the death threats accelerated after the Fox News article about the Turning Point petition to have me fired," Bray said."

""The first one that said they were gonna kill me in front of my students," Bray said."

""I landed in Spain this morning after a very mysterious and, in my opinion, fishy, cancellation of my flight on Wednesday," Bray said."

Mark Bray, a historian of fascism and Rutgers professor, left the United States with his family after receiving escalating death threats. Bray links the rise in threats to President Trump's executive order labeling Antifa a "terrorist organization" and to subsequent media coverage. A Rutgers chapter of Turning Point USA launched a petition seeking Bray's removal as an "Antifa-aligned professor," which Bray says intensified threats and endangered his family. Bray filed a police report, alerted university officials, experienced a mysterious flight cancellation, and relocated to Spain for safety. Turning Point's Rutgers president condemned threats while supporting the petition.

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