"Rutgers teachers' unions are standing in solidarity with History Professor Mark Bray, who has been targeted by Turning Point USA's student chapter at Rutgers. The group has falsely claimed that Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is "a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus," and launched a campaign to have him fired. "Antifa," which is short for antifascist, is a frequent target of President Donald Trump and others on the extreme right."
"Antifa isn't real - at least, not in the way one convenes a roundtable. It has no central command structure, no coherent leadership, no membership rolls, no headquarters. It is a loose ideological umbrella - a term that is sometimes used by disparate activists and local groups, but much more frequently by the far right than by the supposed lefties who are part of it."
Turning Point USA's student chapter at Rutgers targeted History Professor Mark Bray with false claims that he is a prominent antifa leader and campaigned for his firing. Mark Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. Antifa lacks a central command and is often used as a label by the far right. Bray reports receiving death threats and is temporarily relocating to Europe with his partner, Yesenia Barragan, over safety concerns. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union issued a joint statement urging public support for Bray. An unaffiliated petition to disband the Turning Point chapter has nearly 2,000 signatures.
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