Overview

• Bray, a Rutgers University historian known for his work on antifascist movements, left the United States for Spain with his wife and children on Thursday.
• He reports receiving death threats and being doxxed after right‑wing activists targeted him online, labeling him a “domestic terror professor.”
• The harassment intensified following the killing of Charlie Kirk and the administration’s formal designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization.
• Rutgers offered security for his classes, which he declined, and the university granted him permission to continue teaching from abroad.
• Academic colleagues condemned the threats and warned that the designation could chill research on antifascism, which studies describe as a loose, leaderless network.