Professor leaves the USA after threats: “I’m not fleeing the Gestapo – but it feels a bit like that”

October 10, 2025

Mark Bray teaches a course on anti-fascism. Right-wing activists call him “Dr. Antifa” – and publish his home address. Now the history professor has fled to Spain.

On the phone, Mark Bray declined to reveal his exact location. “I’ll just say I’m in a hotel,” the US professor said Thursday afternoon. He sounded agitated. “We’re still trying to leave for Spain.”

A few hours earlier, the New York Times had published an explosive article : Bray, author of a best-selling book on anti-fascism and a professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, planned to flee to Spain with his family on Wednesday evening after receiving death threats. But when they arrived at the gate with their boarding passes, they were told that their reservation had been canceled.

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12 comments

  1. This is our new reality in the once great United States. Hate and persecutions are spreading like wildfire. National guards are being used to subdue states and cities. Masked ICE thugs roam the streets, looking for a reason to bust someone, literally. The taco president is hounding, oppressing, and threatening anyone standing in his way or who had done so in the past.
    Our country is being turned into a fascist banana republic by a convicted felon and child rapist.

      • Red are you suggesting that the right only has verbal threats? If so, you could be drinking too much Trump Kool-aid.

      • Is that a catch question, Red? 😄What if I told you that verbal or written death threats are worse? What would the consequences be?

        • Leftists like you have ACTUALLY shot Conservatives and killed Conservatives. And you’re complaining about social media threats? Especially you, since you’ve written several times about wishing Trump was dead. Antifa is killing Conservatives too, and you support those murderers too. All the ACTUAL violence comes from you Leftists. Period.

          • I think I’ve mentioned numerous times already that I am a lifelong Republican and a conservative.
            It seems that anyone not a Nazi is a leftist to you? Really?

  2. Spain is not a wise choice.
    It’s a beautiful country but it keeps electing shit leaders. Currently it has a Marxist/borderline putlerist as PM.
    One of the world’s top experts in ruZZian fascism; prof Tim Snyder, went to Canada last year for non-Trumpish reasons. But he says he will not return until the U.S. elects a non-putler-friendly president.
    It’s funny how academics and politicians who support Ukraine are always hated by Krasnov, but putler-rimmers and Ukraine-haters end up in top jobs in his cabinet!
    One of these; Bobby Brainworm, is madder than a shithouse rat as well as evil.
    Who in their right mind would hire nazi-loving dogshit like Brainworm and Gabbardova?

    • “Who in their right mind would hire nazi-loving dogshit like Brainworm and Gabbardova?”

      Taco. Who else? Only he is insane, unethical, and evil enough to hire such scum.

  3. Hard for me to believe there’s a connection to death threats and someone cancelling the reservation. More likely, seems like someone is self promoting.

    • You can’t rule it out, Cap. But, what makes me wary is seeing what’s going on in the States. This makes this guy’s story more plausible. Under Biden or another POTUS? No way.

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