"A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats that intensified after a student group affiliated with the organization founded by murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk accused him of being a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus. Rutgers' Turning Point USA chapter also says the presence of Mark Bray whose work has closely examined antifascist movements threatens them and is calling for his firing"
"I am not now, nor have I ever been, part of any kind of antifascist or anti-racist organization I just haven't. I'm a professor, Bray said on Monday about the circumstances. Noting that antifa is a decentralized movement, he added: I'm a professor of the history of the left. A Change.org petition calling for the termination of Bray's employment at Rutgers came Thursday, several weeks after Kirk the founder of Turning Point USA was shot to death by a sniper on 10 September."
"The treasurer for the chapter at Rutgers, student Megyn Doyle, told Fox News Digital that the petition was made necessary by the fact that Bray puts conservative students at risk for antifa to come in. 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, Doyle said."
Mark Bray, a Rutgers history professor who studies antifascist movements, is temporarily relocating to Europe amid threats that escalated after a campus Turning Point USA chapter accused him of being a prominent antifa leader. The campus chapter demanded his firing, arguing his presence and his book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook promote political violence and endanger conservative students. Bray denies membership in any antifascist or anti-racist organization, describes himself as an antifascist only in opposing fascism, and calls firing demands manufactured outrage. A Change.org petition sought his termination weeks after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was shot. Antifa is decentralized despite a presidential executive order.
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