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A Rutgers College lecturers’ union launched a press release Tuesday defending Antifa-aligned professor Mark Bray and hitting the varsity’s Turning Point USA chapter, which launched a petition to have him eliminated.
“Rutgers Professor and AAUP-AFT member Dr. Mark Bray has come below assault from Turning Level USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship,” the Rutgers AAUP-AFT Tutorial Employee Union stated in a Tuesday X publish.
“Because of this assault, he has been doxxed and threatened and has needed to go away the nation to guard himself and his household,” the assertion continued. “As members of the Rutgers and New Jersey labor group, and as unions dedicated to the protection of our coworkers, we stand in sturdy solidarity with Professor Mark Bray and his accomplice, Professor Yesenia Barragan. We affirm the rules of educational freedom and assist sturdy First Amendment rights for all employees in greater ed and past.”
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights brand is proven on concrete earlier than the sport between the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Oregon Geese at SHI Stadium on Oct. 18, 2025, in Piscataway, New Jersey. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Photographs)
The assertion follows weeks of controversy surrounding Bray.
Earlier this month, members of Rutgers’ Turning Level USA chapter launched a petition to remove Bray, an assistant educating professor at Rutgers, citing issues over his previous statements supporting Antifa.
Bray, who just lately moved overseas “for security causes” and stated that he had been doxxed and “received multiple death threats,” has expressed sturdy assist for “antifacism” in earlier on-line posts.
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The seaside city and pure bay of Calella de Palafrugell on Catalonia’s Costa Brava. (L) Mark Bray, a Rutgers assistant professor of historical past, waits in a resort room in Newark, N.J., earlier than a deliberate flight to Spain on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Picture/Ted Shaffrey; iStock)
In an earlier assertion posted at the start of October supporting Bray, the Rutgers AAUP-AFT referred to as Turning Level USA “half of a bigger community of teams and elected officers who’ve focused school at Rutgers and across the nation. The bad-faith effort to border Dr. Bray as a risk to college students and to get him fired is an affront to Rutgers’ values of educational freedom, in addition to to Turning Level’s self-proclaimed dedication to a tradition of open debate.”
Whitney Strub, affiliate professor at Rutgers who has taught programs together with Introduction to LGBT Research, Visions of the Metropolis in American Cinema, and Gender and Sexuality in American Historical past, amongst others, can be co-chair of the Joint Tutorial Freedom Committee on the Rutgers AAUP-AFT.
Strub posted about Kirk’s assassination on X on Sept. 10, writing, “I do not really assume Charlie Kirk goes to be our Archduke Franz Ferdinand or Reichstag fireplace, Trump himself obtained shot final 12 months and everybody forgot about it inside per week. We simply reside in a violent dystopian hell and that is utterly regular.”
He added, “Sorry to see Charlie Kirk did not make it. I deplore gun violence & discover it cheesy to talk unwell of the useless so tomorrow I am going to pay my respects by protesting in my diapers.”
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The chancellor of Rutgers College stated the Ivy League establishment is dedicated to tutorial freedom and might be launching a security assessment and “tutorial freedom” job drive amid the continued controversy surrounding Antifa-aligned professor Mark Bray. (Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Photographs, AP Picture/Ted Shaffrey)
Megyn Doyle, a pupil at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Level USA chapter, who began the petition to take away Bray, instructed Fox Information Digital in a press release that the Rutgers AAUP-AFT assertion is “defamatory.”
“The Assertion from the union says our petition brought about ‘Doxxing and dying threats’ and we have now disadvantaged college students of the flexibility to trade concepts within the classroom,” Doyle stated.
She added, “This assertion is just not solely defamatory, but it surely additionally defends an Antifa Professor who’s affiliated with The Black Rosa Anarchist federation that requires ‘mass civil disobedience,’ ‘militancy,’ ‘Unlawful strikes,’ and desires to ensure that in 20 years it is pricey to say you voted for Trump.”
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“This ‘tutorial freedom’ that the union is suggesting we’re destroying is simply Mark Bray’s repeated hostility in direction of conservatives,” Doyle stated.
Ava Kwan, the chapter’s outreach coordinator, instructed Fox Information Digital in a press release that “The Rutgers Adjunct School Union (Rutgers AAUP-AFT) won’t cease with their incessant lies about our TPUSA chapter.”
She added, “Their selection of language, claiming Bray is below ‘assault’ by us is proof that they’re greedy at straws, unsuccessfully making an attempt to govern the narrative about Dr. Antifa’s terrorist actions. Everybody is aware of that advocating for preemptive violence towards so-called fascists and financing a home terrorist group is just not protected speech.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Rutgers and Bray for remark.
