Overview

• After President Trump signed an executive order designating antifa a terrorist group, conservative activists focused on Bray over his 2017 book on anti-fascism.
• Bray says death threats began after a prominent post on X labeled him a “domestic terrorist professor,” followed by doxxing that included his home address and family details.
• He moved his classes online and, with Rutgers’ support, took his family to Spain for the academic year while the university reiterated commitments to safety, free speech, and academic freedom.
• Bray says he has never been part of an antifa group and notes he donated half his book proceeds to the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, which he describes as separate from any centralized antifa organization.
• The White House rejected his account as a distraction and pointed to what it called recent examples of left-wing violence.