Routine NewsBusters readers may recall the name Mark Bray, the Rutgers professor who wrote the literal “Antifa Handbook.” Despite his appetite for politically motivated violence against the right, he purportedly fled the country after podcaster Jack Posobiec called him out as a “domestic terrorism professor.” That’s according to WIRED writer David Gilbert who had previously whined to PBS News that people celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk were being fired.
“I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa [sic] ‘financier,’” Bray claimed on BlueSky (a social media site for left-wing extremists) without providing evidence. “I have been forced to move my classes online.”
A sympathetic article published by the U.K.-based news outlet The Guardian lamented: “Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence.”
With the article being titled “Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa [sic] accusations,” Bray clownishly claimed that Antifa couldn’t possibly be a terrorist group because he said so:
In any event, Bray said he has never advocated for terrorism and dismissed efforts to cast antifa [sic] as a terrorism organization. “It’s not an organization – it’s not terrorist either,” he said.
“I don’t know whether these people believe that this is true or not. But I’m not so sure that they care, because it serves a narrative they’re trying to promote.”
Keeping with that notion that people on the right were pointing out the terrorist sympathizer for no good reason, Gilbert reached out to Posobiec. Here’s Gilbert’s message as shared by Posobiec via a screen shot of his DMs:
Hi Jack, David Gilbert here from WIRED. I’m writing about Professor Mark Bray and his decision to leave the US after receiving multiple death threats in recent weeks. In our conversation he citied your tweet labeling him a domestic terrorism professor as one of the death threats against him. I was wondering if you had any comment to provide about the situation?
“Yes. He’s a domestic terrorism professor,” Posobiec wrote back.
As NewsBusters previously noted, Gilbert had huffed to PBS News Hour about morbid left-wing extremists getting fired for celebrating Kirk’s death:
I've spoken to multiple people this week who have had, you know, their employment terminated as a result of what they posted online. In some cases, they were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. In other cases, it was much, much less than that. And they were just making points about divisive U.S. society.
Bray’s claims to The Guardian of not promoting violence were not true. Bray used to be with Dartmouth University before they dropped him following a series of interviews he did with NBC / MSNBC’s Chuck Todd promoting Antifa’s political violence. Dartmouth denounced Bray’s promotion of violence:
Recent statements made by Lecturer in History Mark Bray supporting violent protest do not represent the views of Dartmouth. As an institution, we condemn anything but civil discourse in the exchange of opinions and ideas. Dartmouth embraces free speech and open inquiry in all matters, and all on our campus enjoy the freedom to speak, write, listen and debate in pursuit of better learning and understanding; however, the endorsement of violence in any form is contrary to Dartmouth values.
Neither Bray nor any of the outlets sympathetically covering him offered any evidence that he was actually moving out of the country. So, for all their readers knew, it was all bluster.
