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Students in the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers University have launched a request to eliminate what a “anti -info aligned” professor calls.
“Our request is to call Professor Mark Bray to be fired from Rutgers,” said Megyn Doyle, Rutgers student and the treasurer of the Turning Point Chapter, USA, Fox News Digital Friday in an interview.
“We believe that conservative students and political violence are very prominent now,” Doyle added. “And puts conservative students at risk of such political violence. And when you have a teacher who often promotes political violence, especially in his book, 'Antifa: the anti -fascist manual', who talks about militant fascism, which is in terms with political violence. We believe that he believes at risk of conservative students so that the antifa come.”
The requestThroughout Thursday, he says: “We, the students of the University of Rutgers, are deeply concerned to know that an open and known antifa member, Dr. Mark Bray, is employed by the University.”
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The students established a Gaza solidarity camp on the Rutgers-Newark campus in Newark, NJ, May 21, 2024. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Getty Images)
“Dr. Mark Bray, whom we call Dr. AntifaHe wrote the Antifa Manual, which is a guide of what it refers to as' militant anti -fascism, “he adds.
“With the current trend of leftist terrorism, having a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus is a threat to conservative students on the campus,” says the page of the petition.
Bray He is an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers. He is the author of “Antifa: the anti -fascist manual”, “The anarchist Inquisition: murderers, activists and martyrs in Spain and France” and “translate anarchy: the anarchism of Occupy Wall Street”.
In “Antifa: the anti -fascist manual”, Bray wrote that “at least 50 percent of the author's income will go to the International Anti -Fascist Defense Fund that is administered by more than three hundred antifa of eighteen countries.”
He is also co -editor and translator of “anarchist education and modern school: a reader of Francisco Ferrer”.
Ava Kwan, the dissemination coordinator of Turning Point Usa chapter in Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the murder of Charlie Kirk, the 31 -year -old founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, was a call for attention to what is happening on his campus.
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Charlie Kirk speaks before being killed during Turning Point to the University of Utah Valley in OEM, Utah, Wednesday, September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
“After seeing this murder, someone who has promoted political violence, who uses it here, is scary, “Kwan said.” It is very afraid and we want to try to attract so much attention to your participation to Antifa to help protect, you know, our academic freedom. Freedom of expression on campus. “
Doyle told Fox News Digital that he is concerned that political violence is being accepted and encouraged.
“I feel that political violence is really a concern now and to have great attention and also for people to be in favor of it at this time, especially with political commentators, politicians who don't like them,” Doyle said.
“I would say that if you really want such a teacher, it's really worrying,” he added.
In 2017, The Washington Post Posted a piece In Bray entitled, “an expert in Dartmouth antifa was rejected by its president of the University for” supporting the violent protest, “anger many teachers.”
Bray also joined “Meet The Press” In 2017 With former host Chuck Todd to discuss whether the violent tactics used by Antifa are acceptable.
“Considering someone deceased In Charlottesville, why do you defend itself violently? “Todd Bray asked.
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The agitators hold an antifa flag in a prayer vigil for Charlie Kirk in Boston, on September 18, 2025. (Lauren Owens Lambert/Reuters)
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“Many people are under attack,” Bray said. “And sometimes they need to be able to defend themselves. It is a privileged position to say that you never have to defend themselves against these monsters.”
In response to the recent news that President Donald Trump declared Antifa to terrorist organizationBray Posted in BlueskyThe popular social media platform among progressives, “I could say that Antifa is neither” terrorist “nor an” organization “, but Maga does not care about the facts … This is just about mobilizing a wide label to expand repression and accelerate the march to fascism.”
Fox News Digital communicated with Dartmouth, Rutgers and Bray to comment.
